🌟 What I'm Reading: 5-12-2024 🌟

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May 12, 2024

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I post a weekly roundup of some of the highlights of what I’ve been reading… including many thoughtful, valuable, and intriguing perspectives that I could not otherwise post.

I hope that you find this list to be useful, inspiring, interesting, and informative!

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What I'm Reading: 5-12-2024

The Abbey of Misrule

Die Before You Die

This winter, I learned how to dig a grave. Where I come from, death is an industrial process. It wasn’t always this way: England, bless it, has an ancient heart, but it beats under a long-mechanised carapace. The Machine we made has corralled our deaths as it has corralled our lives. Everything must fit the pattern…

2 years ago · 585 likes · 144 comments · Paul Kingsnorth

Arthur Firstenberg

Astronomers in court against FCC and SpaceX

INTERNATIONAL DARK SKY ASSOCIATION vs. FCC AND SPACEX On December 29, 2022, the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) sued the U.S. Federal Communications Commission over its decision to approve SpaceX’s application for up to 30,000 more low-orbit satellites, in addition to the 12,000 already approved and in process of filling our skies. This is…

2 years ago · 95 likes · 36 comments · Arthur Firstenberg

Beth Kempton {Life. This is it, friends.}

Stardust and small happinesses

There’s a tiny cafe down a back street of a residential area in North West Kyoto where I’d love to meet you for tea and cake. Here, let me draw you a map. You’ll find it next door to the florist which is also in an old house, so don’t get lost, or maybe do, and wander in to find exquisite displays laid out in the alcoves of tatami-matted rooms, then bow…

2 years ago · 322 likes · 188 comments · Beth Kempton

HOW YOU WERE DECEIVED

2 years ago · 57 likes · 37 comments · Frances Leader

A Simple Sauce with Many Uses

Welcome to Buona Domenica, a weekly newsletter of Italian home cooking and baking. I’m a journalist, cooking teacher, occasional tour guide, and author of eight cookbooks on Italian cuisine. FIRST: Thank you for all your delicious comments last week about your favorite pizza. I enjoyed reading them. The lucky winner of Pizza Ni…

2 years ago · 58 likes · 25 comments · Domenica Marchetti

The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon

In A Cocoon’s Embrace

Thanks for reading The Charlotte Pendragon Diaries by Charlotte Pendragon ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. “Strong people are made by the storms they walk through” Unknown Following the trauma that caused my life to suddenly wholly change, I subconsciously isolated myself. It was a coping mechanism that eventually gave me bac…

2 years ago · 109 likes · 89 comments · Charlotte Pendragon

Chas Holloway's Thinkopolis

The History of Dice

Click to Play Audio The History of Dice by Chas Holloway Bet you didn’t know what the world’s oldest game is…

2 years ago · 3 likes · Chas Holloway

Chris’s Substack

What is Natural Law?

Natural Law is binding and immutable. Natural Law is Cosmic Law, universal, non man made conditions, governing dynamics of Consciousness. Natural Law is a science that can be discovered through Cause and Effect analysis of oneself and the environment, essentially through pattern recognition…

2 years ago · 10 likes · 2 comments · Chris Youngblood

Consequence Of Mind

The Haunting of the Snedeker Family: A Tale of Terror in Connecticut

In the serene town of Southington, Connecticut, an unassuming house hid a chilling secret that would soon unleash a nightmarish ordeal upon the Snedeker clan. As they sought safe haven within its partitions, little did they realise that the malevolent forces lurking beneath had marked them as unwitting prey, ensnaring the circle of relatives in a harrowing descent into the realms of the mystical. A Fateful Relocation…

2 years ago · 7 likes · Consequence Of Mind

Conspiracy Sarah

I heard this one’s a floozy. 🤣…

2 years ago · 137 likes · 80 comments · Conspiracy Sarah

Conspiracy Sarah

I don't MEME to brag, but I've got a knack for getting into trouble.

2 years ago · 191 likes · 67 comments · Conspiracy Sarah

Chewsday Memes, May 7

Good time of day, humans! This is a small rat’s nest of memes I’ve snatched lately (mostly from Xitterverse) – some serious, some not so much. Enjoy…

2 years ago · 71 likes · 8 comments · Rat

A Convict's Perspective

“Don't panic” I repeated inside my head as I crouched unseen around the corner leading into the kitchen. I don't know how they reached the front door without me hearing them, however it was too late to do anything about it now. Peeking from the darkness I watched as at least a half dozen men or more came pouring into the apartment, laughing and talking …

2 years ago · 151 likes · 64 comments · Coleman

A Convict's Perspective

Ya Played Yourselves

“A spectacle of fearsome acts. That's what maintains the order of things. Fear.” -Bill the Butcher, Gangs Of New York 2002 Our society, our government, has been remarkably successful at breaking up organized crime. Both in the formal Mafia sense all the way down to home-grown neighborhood gangs and crews. It's too bad, y'all were better off back when the …

2 years ago · 176 likes · 108 comments · Coleman

Creative Confidence Clinic

Same As It Ever Was...

Hello loves! Happy Monday! I hope you’re really well. Soon, I’m going to be sharing my Pity Party tour dates, and I hope to see some of you this summer! Meanwhile, I am still beavering away at my new book, Read Yourself Happy, and we’re working on a new series of…

2 years ago · 57 likes · 16 comments · Daisy Buchanan

After the Fall: It's Done. Now What?

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward…

2 years ago · 17 likes · 1 comment · Andrew | Dad Explains

Don't Suffocate Your Soul: Unmask And Forgive

Dad Explains is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes. Walt Whitman Forgive Refusing yourself permission to relinquish what was, and refusal of forgiveness, forgoes your ability to secure a future. This stark remi…

2 years ago · 23 likes · 6 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

He Showed Me I Can

A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult. Clyde Edgerton…

2 years ago · 17 likes · 7 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

I Appreciate The Nightmare

The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego consciousness extends…

2 years ago · 29 likes · 2 comments · Andrew | Dad Explains

Dawn’s Writings

Building the new model

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― Buckminster Fuller In order to build the new model of our world that makes the old model obsolete, we have to to release old habits, which includes making changes to the way we think. We need a whole new mindset, one…

2 years ago · 25 likes · 16 comments · Dawn Lester

DoG’s Substack

Truth Bomb Central: Memes that Expose the Deception (Part 8)

2 years ago · 94 likes · 5 comments · DoG

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Boredom, dopamine-seeking, and homeschool

Many mornings lately, my son has greeted me by telling me that he’s bored. I have a feeling his brain is frequently dopamine-seeking and novelty-driven, and I’ve learned that sometimes our regular breakfast routine or doing schoolwork will not do the trick. I’m trying to get better about planning ahead, and specifically building in multiple backup plans…

2 years ago · 2 likes · 2 comments · Sunita

Let's Discuss Knowing Thyself

2 years ago · 8 likes · 25 comments · Cameron M. Bailey

Enfant Terrible

The Seven Stages of Envy

Name: Envy. Age: Evergreen, unceasing. Appearance: Eyes that linger too long on another’s fortune. Occurrence: When success feels like a scarcity. Effect: A flat beer, a clenched jaw. Reason: The illusion that there’s not enough to go around. Cause: A yearning for what others possess…

2 years ago · 89 likes · 38 comments · Remy Bazerque

Of Pisco and Peru: Iquitos

“The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.” Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques Well, thanks for that charming little tidbit, Claude. Puts a whole big, fat bummer on this travel thing, don’t it…

2 years ago · 38 likes · 10 comments · EpicGonzo

Of Pisco and Peru: Iquitos

Back at the hotel, Auntie M tucks herself into her bed, rubs her stomach, and groans, “Oye, mi barriga.” Apparently, a full tummy plus humidity equals napitos time. She’s not built for jungle living the way I’m not built for breathing above 10,000 feet. Everybody has their own climate. After a few tosses and turns, she sinks into slumber…

2 years ago · 18 likes · 2 comments · EpicGonzo

Ivy League Students Accidentally Right For Once, World Shocked

In a shocking turn of events, it appears that most Ivy League university students, renowned for their deep indoctrination and misinterpretations, have accidentally stumbled upon the correct stance of…

2 years ago · 38 likes · 26 comments · Kyle Kissinger (no relation)

Good morning. Today we’re listening to Saapato, an Ambient ambient music producer and multi-instrumentalist based in upstate New York. His music finds harmonies between field recordings of natural sur…

2 years ago · 20 likes · 2 comments · Flow State

Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross

Good morning. It’s Friday so we’re listening to something more upbeat. Today we’re listening to Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, film composers from Pennsylvania and London respectively. Reznor started Ni…

2 years ago · 16 likes · 1 comment · Flow State

I can’t sleep if there’s a scorpion in the room. Two in the morning. It’s oppressively hot in my hotel room - too hot to sleep even if there wasn’t a scorpion somewhere under my bed - so I am slowly getting buzzed on warm beer while staring at a montage of depravity on the TV with the sound muted. The handle on the doorknob begins to slowly rattle and tw…

2 years ago · 6 likes · Frater Seamus

The Freedom Scale

Is Trump Hate Desensitizing People to a Final Solution Against MAGAs?

I have been on the road a fair amount over the last month—first, a short trip to Connecticut; then, 11 days in Florida—a trip from which I just returned. You might not have known because I still put out content, and because I continued to reply to all your comments. That’s just how I roll—you are my employers, and I have a job to do…

2 years ago · 246 likes · 295 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

Tired of the Claim That Fascism Is 'Right Wing'?

Why this book | Title Page | Table of Contents Preface | Introduction PART 1 Chapter 1 (1.1) (1.2) | Chapter 2 (2.1) (2.2) (2.3) | Chapter 3 (3.1) (3.2) (3.3) (3.4) (3.5) (3.6) PART 2 Chapter 4 (4.1) | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 PART 3 Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13 | Chapter 14…

2 years ago · 33 likes · 16 comments · Christopher Cook

The Freedom Scale

You Are Stronger Than You Know. And There Is Hope!

Tuesday’s article turns out to be the most highly trafficked of all of my posts to date. Obviously putting the word “Trump” in the title (something I almost never do) contributed to the interest. But it’s more that that… The title, and the article it represents, rings alarm bells. And, for better or worse, human beings are wired to focus on bad news. The…

2 years ago · 62 likes · 63 comments · Christopher Cook

Goatfury Writes

Batman is a different sort of superhero. He brings elements of darkness into his crimefighting strategy, using fear and intimidation along with his James-Bond-esque gadgets and extensive martial arts training. He seems like the perfect candidate to be a solo superhero—a kind of lone wolf fighting for justice…

2 years ago · 16 likes · 5 comments · Andrew Smith

Goatfury Writes

You Can't Do That

“You can’t do that!” What comes to mind when you read that? Is it a little streak of defiance, leading you to think, “oh yes I can; just watch me”? Do you think about the impossible—things you physically can’t do? Is it this Beatles Song…

2 years ago · 26 likes · 15 comments · Andrew Smith

Hacking Narcissism

How to close the door on bad relationships for good

This piece is part of a series for paid subscribers to share my experiences and learning that have contributed to Hacking Narcissism’s educational content and my worldview about the human condition and culture. Our stories, when read in good faith, can help us feel seen, less alone, more connected, restore empathy and humanity…

2 years ago · 25 likes · 8 comments · Nathalie Martinek PhD

Holly’s Substack

Some Thoughts (and Tips) About Drawing

This is a creative writing post (#32) from my occasional series for paid subscribers, who can also leave comments on most posts. As always, email hollymathnerd at gmail dot com if you would like a paid subscription but can’t afford one. And this one has a ton of pictures, so remember you can always read it at the Substack…

2 years ago · 44 likes · 9 comments · Holly MathNerd

The Honest Broker

All Bad Music Will Eventually Disappear

“No stupid literature, art or music lasts.” That’s a quote from literary critic George Steiner (1929-2020)—in his highly recommended book Real Presences from 1986. I was shocked when I read that sentence. But pleasantly shocked. Could it really be true that all the sonic detritus circulating in our culture will just magically disappear? It seems too good t…

2 years ago · 680 likes · 188 comments · Ted Gioia

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I Am Here For It, Whatever It Is

Human Inspiration And Humor With Ai Prompted Imagery.

I am curious to step into your perception.Thanks for reading I Am Here For It, Whatever It Is! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. You see more than you let others know about…

2 years ago · 12 likes · 5 comments · What IS a name, really?

I Am Here For It, Whatever It Is

Human Inspiration And Humor with Ai Prompted Imagery 2

“And on that cheek, and o'er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent!” Beautiful InnocenceThanks for reading I Am Here For It, Whatever It Is! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work…

2 years ago · 20 likes · 11 comments · What IS a name, really?

Intellectual Dissatisfaction

These memes are intended to make light of an increasingly tense political atmosphere. This publication receives submissions from the community, and the memes held within do not reflect the opinions of the publication…

2 years ago · 45 likes · 3 comments · Jeremy Mercier

Jenn’s Substack

Who’s Gonna Drive You Home?

I used to live within walking distance of my neighborhood grocery store. We only had one car, so everyday I’d buckle my child into our umbrella stroller and walk to the store for the day’s food. It was fabulous and I truly miss the simplicity of just walking right out my door and to the store, no fiddling with car seats, parking spaces, or shopping ca…

2 years ago · 29 likes · 24 comments · Jenn

Kaya's Self Liberation Portal

The Intelligent Patterns of Predictive Programming

When it comes to ‘predictive programs’, or the patterns that resemble predictive programming, I’m teeter-tottering between “this is all totally conscious and intentional” and/or, this is just an unintentional expression of the unconscious shadow of humanity, arising out of the intelligence of the hyper-dimensional matrix…

2 years ago · 14 likes · 10 comments · Kaya Marie

KW Norton Borders

Light Workers - Overcoming Doubt & Pain As Presented By the Black Pilled

Light workers must expect to be countered with the doubt and pain others experience as they transit with us through this same world where we are constantly tested by these pitfalls. But if we are not careful - especially in times like the present - our own work may be affected by the black pilled doom scrolling offered by others…

2 years ago · 24 likes · 2 comments · KW NORTON

KW Norton Borders

SOLAR STORM WARNING - MAY 10-12, 2024

All we need right now is the further potential worry and disruption of our lives from our nearest star. However as we approach the current solar maximum it appears that further disruptions are what we need to be expecting. Many people experience physical and psychological symptoms from this increase in electromagnetic energy from the more active sun…

2 years ago · 29 likes · 9 comments · KW NORTON

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” ~ Genesis 1:28…

2 years ago · 10 likes · 1 comment · Jim Davidson

You have the wrong idea about freedom

“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.” ― George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron) Overbearing, smothering and downright suffocating. We all know the type. Having experienced it one way or another, they appear to us through relatives…

2 years ago · 29 likes · 14 comments · Theodore Atkinson

Floating among the stars, Your journey has just begun, The body is gone, You soul turns towards the sun, It no longer burns, It no longer blinds, Your spirit belongs, Inside the warm, Divine light, You fly like a feather, Weightless and careless, Love fully surrounds you…

2 years ago · 51 likes · 19 comments · Alexander Semenyuk

Liminal Walker Musings

Liminal Empathy

Welcome to this edition of Liminal Walker Musings! If you are a new subscriber, a special WELCOME! Today I am taking a deeper look into empathy. Concurrently I am participating in Kaitlin Curtice’s invitation of “A Poem a Day in the Month of May.” My intuitive guidance told me to hold off on any writing for this post till her Saturday’s prompt and to use it as my topic. Having followed that crumb, here we go… enjoy and love to you all…

2 years ago · 13 likes · 7 comments · Julie Schmidt

LIVE WITHOUT LIMITS

When Problems aren't Problems

You might be saying, “What nonsense! If there’s a problem, it’s a problem.” You are wrong. Ajahn Brahm sums up the matter very well in his book Opening the Door Of Your Heart using the example of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who illustrated this very well at the time…

2 years ago · 5 likes · LIVE WITHOUT LIMITS with Klaus

What you feel in the void is kenopsia

Whenever I visit the house of my grandfather, who now lives in a single room of a nursing home, I drop my stuff in the entryway and go straight to the basement, waving a rolled-up newspaper like a wand to clear a path through the cobwebs. Each of the four basement rooms is full of artefacts from his life, and I pass through them studiously like Indiana …

2 years ago · 63 likes · 41 comments · Christian Näthler

Mack's Memo • Intuitive Public Radio

Make Blessings Abundant

This morning I responded to another of Scott Perry's generous, clarifying posts. (You might stop by his Facebook profile and do the same. I bet you'll be glad you did.) In this post he asks, "What are you really trying to accomplish right now?" I wrote my answer through the fog of stabbing ice pick head pains…

2 years ago · 12 likes · 1 comment · IPR with Mack Morris

Make Pure Thy Heart

Why you should be thankful when you are confused

Hello there friend, Thanks for taking the time to be here. Most problems have in life is brought about by the nature of our minds to always know what’s going to happen. We are unsettled if we are doing the right action, we worry if we are on the right path. We even question the meaning and purpose of our time here on earth…

2 years ago · 46 likes · 2 comments · Paolo Peralta

Making of a Millionaire

Why You Should Value Time over Money: Happiness in the Short and Long Run

Wall Street 2 is a bad movie. But it has Micheal Douglas in it, who has some great line readings, like this one: “Money is not the prime asset in life. Time is.” The two most important assets in life are time and money. In an ideal world, we would have all the time and money we need to live our best life. But in the world we live…

2 years ago · 20 likes · 7 comments · Ben Le Fort

Michelle’s Substack

I have to accept that you are making the choice to not be a part of my life, my kids lives Just keeping in touch is like being fed dirty breadcrumbs swept off the floor and made into hot cross buns I will always share my bread with you The distance sweeps us away…

2 years ago · 3 likes · 1 comment · Michelle

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Philosophy of Language

How to Join the Playing God According to Johan Huizinga

Image Courtesy Is it possible to predict if a political regime will crumble? Of course, sooner or later, they all crumble — history holds a telling testimony to that. But when Hitler came to power in 1933, Johan Huizinga, a Dutch historian and cultural theorist, noticed a strange tendency — in a totalitarian regime, people stop playing. They march…

2 years ago · 41 likes · 14 comments · Eugene Terekhin

Philosophy of Language

The Paradox of Self-Confidence - Cease Striving

There are so many things that chip away at our confidence daily – just watch the news, and in ten minutes, the light will go out of your eyes. Talk to a negative person, and they will give a thousand reasons for why life sucks. Scroll through your social media, and in between those flashy ads, you will always catch something that will trigger fear and se…

2 years ago · 34 likes · 6 comments · Eugene Terekhin

Post Post Modern

Post Post Podcast #10

Welcome to Season 2 of the Post Post Podcast. For this episode, I had the honour of speaking with a very magical woman who graced me with her humble presence that conveys a deep eternal wisdom. She describes herself this way in her About section: I am a writer, healer, speaker, channel, and New Earth BE-ing and a keeper of Divine Mother codes…

2 years ago · 6 likes · 3 comments · Jacqueline Rendell and Solarah

Post Post Modern

She will free herself from herself

My piece today is directly inspired by the always thoughtful and refreshingly insightful writing of Coleman. It was this post of his in particular that did it: While reading it with my morning coffee, I felt the stirring of a response deep within me. It was that all too familiar and wonderful feeling born of welcoming in an entirely new perspective and way of …

2 years ago · 60 likes · 42 comments · Jacqueline Rendell

Post Post Modern

Some words about fear.

Hello, my fellow seekers of what is True! Inside this wild world of constructs & illusions and incessantly churned out narratives that attempt to confuse and disconnect us through inversion and classic divide & conquer tactics, it can be difficult to find a clear path forward, to know what to believe, what to think, what to do to find some satisfaction …

2 years ago · 32 likes · 19 comments · Jacqueline Rendell

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30 Useful Concepts (Spring 2024)

It’s that time again; a summary of interesting and useful concepts to spur your curiosity. Click the titles for more information…

2 years ago · 806 likes · 41 comments · Gurwinder

Reina’s Substack

We are taught from a very young age, to Wait… But Why?? We are taught to Wait while life passes us by. Wait your turn Wait in line Wait for the right time Wait for the one Wait for me Hurry up & Wait Good things come to those who Wait But do they?? What is the meaning of …

2 years ago · 38 likes · 28 comments · Blessed Warrior Reina

Karma travel in India

What is to become of the rough draft of the book in the process I titled Ganga Land? If there is a publisher my agent finds, I will use the next few months to finish it. If not… I am including a voice note with this post to share my thoughts on it all (sorry about the hiccups, haha…

2 years ago · 9 likes · 2 comments · Jerome Armstrong

SHE WHO STIRS THE STORM

She Lingers in Red

In the earthy twilight, she lingers— a carnal, crimson apparition. Not demure, not like the rustle of autumn leaves that skitter and tease, but like a shout of vermilion desire that commands the senses. It starts with the dress; a raw, unbridled declaration that speaks of primal hunger and cravings never quenched. It molds to her form, an invitation a prelude to forbidden fruits a promise of rapture, unspoken. There is a seduction to the hue, the way it beckons the gaze, brazen, a siren luring with every curve. It hints at nights spent entangled, limbs damp with the dew of desire, spirits lost in the throes of passion. Follow the valley of her cleavage, deep and inviting, a luscious prelude to hidden treasures. It tells you things you shouldn't yearn— of skin, ripe and ready, of a pulse that thrums with need, beneath. You can almost feel it under your touch, the weight of her breasts, the heat of her desire on your skin. And then, her figure, a sudden, succulent feast for the se…

2 years ago · 49 likes · 58 comments · Gloria Horton-Young

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Art Companion: Chapter 30, Pastel Technique: Drive Towards the Light

219 Newberry, Sunrise Highway Near Borrego Spring, 2018, pastel. In this study, we examine my pastel technique that drives towards the light. I have a few golden rules for pastel landscapes: 1. Dark Paper: For soft pastels (the chalk kind), use dark-colored paper. Black paper, for instance, enables every pastel but black in your set to have lighter vibrancy than the paper. The concept is to layer one tone at a time until you reach your brightest lights. The lighter the paper, the less light range you have to work with. You don't want to start with creamy beige paper and find that you only have white, light yellow, and a few other of the lightest hues of pastel to work with…

2 years ago · 18 likes · 10 comments · Michael Newberry

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Memoir: Chapter 4, Commuting Between The Hague and New York

In 1977, my sister Janet reached the semifinals of the French Grand Slam at Roland Garros. I drove to Paris from The Hague to see her play in the finals if she won the semis. My car was a tiny orange Simca 1000, kind of like a go-kart. Instead of the finals, we drove back to Holland via Mont Saint-Michel and had lunch there. That was the first time I had mussels, yum…

2 years ago · 23 likes · 25 comments · Michael Newberry

The Shrewd Artist by Michael Newberry

Memoir: Chapter 5, Love Your Voice

A bit anxious and tremendously excited, I was now free to devote everything I had to creating my next major painting. It might seem competitive that I wanted to compare my development with my art heroes. But it wasn’t competitive; rather, it was honoring my feeling for art. When I saw a masterpiece by Rembrandt, or by another favorite artist, the feeling of love, admiration, and care was earthshaking to me. I wanted to be able to feel those same things for and from my artworks. I surmised that if I could be that passionate about their works, I should be able to unlock it within myself. I would hate it if I did indeed have the potential but then did not exploit every kernel of my possibilities—it would feel like a lost opportunity and perhaps a road to an unfulfilled life…

2 years ago · 21 likes · 18 comments · Michael Newberry

The Complexities Of Loving And Forgiving Abusers

I have so many “good memories” with my abusers - times when they did things for me that appeared to be kind, altruistic, and emblematic of the fact that they may have cared. The thing that many don’t get about abusive dynamics is that it is not that they always lack love or loving ness, but that these relationships will always be completely devoid of res…

2 years ago · 29 likes · 14 comments · Solarah

DAILY ALKHEMY: Down With The "gods" Of Abusive Cycles

This recent new moon is bringing in a stabilising effect to help us stand more powerfully in our truth and worth. Gone are the days where we have to accept the stories and deceptions that allowed us to survive in a world built on systems that profited off of our self-destruction…

2 years ago · 22 likes · Solarah

DAILY ALKHEMY: Silencing Agendas That Seek To Silence You

Do you feel it? There is a new order that is rising in our world, and our commitment to honouring our own unique paths and talents, is bringing it in with a vengeance. The Aries fire has sparked off new ideas, new possibilities, and a new sense of resilience and determination to stubbornly stand in our truth. The Taurus energy is helping us to find new comfort zones, by way of exploring aspects of self we have locked away, or haven’t allowed to come forth…

2 years ago · 11 likes · Solarah

DAILY ALKHEMY “THROWBACK THURSDAY”

A conversation with Demi Pietchell from “The Starfire Codes” inspired this “Throwback Thursday” series. We were comparing the readings we had published around the same dates to find common threads, themes, and messages. We were pleasantly surprised to see that even over a year ago, our messages were in close alignment…

2 years ago · 13 likes · 3 comments · Solarah

Some of us are the flames sent to initiate and grow the purging fires that are destroying the false matrix. If we don’t know this, we end up wrongfully scorching self and others. Some of us have been fighting and putting out the very fires we were sent to ignite, because we were programmed into fearing the true greatness and purpose of our shadows…

2 years ago · 44 likes · 5 comments · Solarah

SUNRISE SALUTATION # 3

As I watch the Sun rise upon another day, filled with hope and possibility in its newness, I am reminded of times when I felt I had nothing to rise for. The irony is that I may have had more materially then that I have now, but there was one foundational thing I lacked that will always make true satisfaction impossible in its absence: real strength of s…

2 years ago · 11 likes · 5 comments · Solarah

SUNRISE SALUTATION: Saturday, May 11

The atmosphere this morning feels water logged, but not heavy. Pensive and contemplative are the words that come to mind, as the Sun rises, but is hidden behind a thick barrier of clouds, omitting my full view of it’s shine. Water may be the element that is the focus of the day - emotional recognition, re-tuning, and what it may take to reach a sense of …

2 years ago · 20 likes · 10 comments · Solarah

SUN SALUTATIONS: Friday, May 10

As I Sun gaze this morning, I thought I would take the time to share with you the messages that are pouring forth to me in my rising moments…. Today may be a day where many are rooting in throat and higher heart activations and energies. These are to facilitate us in our work of returning to a…

2 years ago · 32 likes · 13 comments · Solarah

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WEEKEND ALKHEMY: Getting Your True Voice Back

2 years ago · 25 likes · 4 comments · Solarah

WORD FOR YOUR WEEK With Solarah

Don’t be afraid to roar and assert your boundaries! Whenever it is time to go higher, the very energies and entities that barred your way from this level originally will make themselves known. Sometimes they are expressed through other beings, but most importantly, they are the thoughts and feelings that supported our previous level, and must be rejecte…

2 years ago · 29 likes · 1 comment · Solarah

TDT: 'FLiRT' Variants Enter Propaganda Cycle

Members of the second largest religion on Earth… individuals who are required by their faith to visit a specific city, will be forced to take whatever ‘vaccine’ Gates and the Saudi government deem necessary… just to enter said-city. Nutshell? If you want to be a good Muslim, and fulfill a sacred commandment? Get jabbed…

2 years ago · 28 likes · 8 comments · Stone Bryson

What You Attract, Project, and Absorb

As it has been a while since I have posted one of the ‘Pages’ from my upcoming book, I thought it was a good time to do so once again…

2 years ago · 30 likes · 10 comments · Stone Bryson

For Fear of a Rose-Apple Tree

I thought I was going to be wildly overprepared for my 12yo’s questions about Buddha. I’ve been reading about Buddhism for my entire adult life, but it turns out my emphasis on meditation practice specifically has left me rather naive about the rest of the religion. My son’s paper was on the Buddha’s life story, a narrative that I’ve read countless vari…

2 years ago · 38 likes · 4 comments · David Cole

How Do You See the World?

I wrote a post about abortion this week. In the post, I shared a personal story of mine from when I was twenty years old: I encouraged a friend to get an abortion, thinking that it was the responsible thing for her to do. I didn’t even question it. I thought it was what was best for her. It was the biggest mistake of my life…

2 years ago · 16 likes · 4 comments · Melissa Petrie

This Changes Everything

How the meme that 'viruses' are fiction can free both humanity and this word

Hi there, welcome back! In last week’s post, I explored the concept of a “viral meme,” and concluded that even though it is nonsense to call anything “viral” since viruses don’t exist, viral may be a useful word anyway. A meme is an idea or a bit of information that spreads through the population in the way that “viruses” supposedly spread (according to…

2 years ago · 19 likes · 15 comments · Betsy

Truth Activist | A publication from Lauren Geertsen

In 2020, my publishers tried to cancel my work. Here's why I celebrate that!

In August 2020, I was in the process of publishing of one of my books. My literary agent wrote me a letter, on behalf of my publishing team, requesting that I delete a video and blog post in which I discussed the scientific inefficacy of face masks…

2 years ago · 28 likes · 8 comments · Lauren Geertsen

The Unfurling Rose

Sunday Reflection: Shame is Not Real

Happy Sunday! In today’s free post, I share a journal prompt designed to help us establish new beliefs that serve our highest good and break us out of patterns that do not serve us. Today’s Journal Prompt Do I have a pattern of self-sabotage that could be related to shame…

2 years ago · 2 likes · 6 comments · Stephanie Peers

Useful / Beautiful

U/B 16: Frustrated? What did you expect?

What’s been useful or beautiful for you this week? Could you discard the other clutter? TL;DR: If you’re frustrated, you may have had an expectation or judgment that wasn’t met. You can change this about yourself. Hi! I get frustrated at reality. Which is not useful and really quite silly…

2 years ago · 2 likes · Kate Thompson

1 I dream at times an avalanche, regathering flow, repeating. A single wave falls, again, yet again on shores with shadows fleeting 2 In waking dream, a bridge is crossed, wrought daily, in phantom steel, towards heaven’s hillside high, there where…

2 years ago · 8 likes · 2 comments · Ross Ion Coyle

Vulkan’s Musings

I want to hear your stories!

Good morning everyone. It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Vulkan. Last week I was teaching some baby sailors how to use a bit of kit they’ll be using wen they eventually join their ships and this week I’m in the simulators. I do most of my writing during my lunches and spare time during the working day. There’s a saying in the Royal Navy. …

2 years ago · 45 likes · 71 comments · Vulkan

Welcome to Absurdistan

Why Canada Failed

Canada’s only readable political scientist, Barry Cooper, made a nice distinction a few years back. “America’s boomers,” he said, “innovated. Canada’s built a vast sclerotic bureaucracy that has shut down the future.” I’m paraphrasing Barry in that last phrase, but when I was growing up in Montreal, the most ambitious older boys were taking foreign service exams purported to be damned hard, but which ushered in a virtuous life swanning around embassies and consulates promoting “peace.” Marrying one of them became a goal for my group of debs who saw a life of garden parties in exotic locales…

2 years ago · 75 likes · 9 comments · elizabeth nickson

What Am I Making

Bracket Challenge: Greatest American Film Of The '70's: Round One - Part Three

In case you missed the first installment, here is the scoop on the Bracket Challenge. Before we head to the ins and outs of the second set of round one matchups, let’s recap our contests from last weekend and more action from the opening round. The Sting…

2 years ago · 15 likes · 7 comments · Matty C

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What Am I Making

A Scottish Sojourn That Never Left The Midwest

For many a year now, I have preached to the masses that when presented with the opportunity to do the thing, you should do the thing unless there is a very compelling reason not to do to the thing. For me, that thing, is almost…

2 years ago · 8 likes · 5 comments · Matty C

What Am I Making

Sheddio Sessions - Never Made It Home [Video]

‘Never Made It Home’ was the last song I wrote for the Joy Is Elusive sessions. Harborcoat had been planning the recording for months before the initial tracking session and I had slowly been adding new songs and demos to a dropbox folder that I had shared with the other band members. As the dates approached we swapped ideas, and even had a few cursory …

2 years ago · 2 likes · Matty C

What Am I Making

What Is Your Favorite Jam From The Year It Was Supposed To All Crash?

The summer of 1984 was a bittersweet time for Matty C. I turned 12 that Memorial Day weekend. I’d managed to survive sixth grade, and my Little League team was pretty good. My beloved Detroit Tigers got off to a record setting 35-5 start in the first 40 games, virtually assuring them of a pennant. And to top things off, I’d also managed to land my first…

2 years ago · 11 likes · 21 comments · Matty C

We Can Reach for Our Phones as Masters or as Slaves

The Stoics warned us about dependence on material possessions two thousand years ago. Had they known of what we now carry around in our pocket, what would they have said…

2 years ago · 24 likes · 9 comments · Sam Alaimo

Harvard Medical School Students Rap in Cringe Idiocracy Video

I’m all for having fun, but if you’re going to record it and put it on the Internet for the world to see…and you are representing the “top” university in the country…at least try to make it sound smart. The phenomenon of medical workers doubling as variety show performers was not a good look in 2020, with people dying in their facilities due to malpracti…

2 years ago · 109 likes · 64 comments · Stephanie B.

Witchcraft and Metaphysics with Jenna Newell Hiott

The Archetype and the Tarot: The Advocate and Eight of Cups

Through the Advocate and Eight of Cups, this week we’re being called down a path of self-discovery and self-expression. Can we communicate what we need to be fulfilled? Welcome everyone! For an overview of what I’m doing here, please check out this post all about it…

2 years ago · 29 likes · 17 comments · Jenna Newell Hiott

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Sunita Kapahi Theiss

Thank you for the mention! I always appreciate you reading and encouraging me. Hopefully we can catch up again soon.

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Thank you for sharing my work! I really appreciate it!

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