So you’re falling. Fast. Plummeting, actually…. {Click to read full post.}
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Poem: WHEN GREAT TREES FALL by Maya Angelou
When Great Trees Fall by Maya AngelouWhen great trees fall,rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety. When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear.When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile. We breathe,ContinueContinue reading “Poem: WHEN GREAT TREES FALL by Maya Angelou”
In Honor of Maya Angelou
A woman who is in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself. ~ Maya Angelou
Note to self: I’m not weak.
Women need to learn to accept the incredible blessing that God created us to be.
Note to self: Don’t forget to come back….
Don’t forget to come back and embrace a community. Build one, if you must. Don’t neglect the sharing of yourself.
Song of Peace
“Inspired by this, every friend who want to be healed and peaceful, learn to be the good friend of yourself. Especially being the good friend of shortages, bad luck, imperfections. This friendship will not just stop your fighting against yourself, it also stops the pain that you inflict on others. In the language of aContinueContinue reading “Song of Peace”
True Soul Mate
“Life is similar to circling circle. Night-day, failure-success, tragedy-comedy are all circling. On the periphery, life is shaking (down-up, blamed-praised, bad mood-good mood). But at the center, there is no shaking, there is only silence and peace. This is the honey of life. And inner contentment is the inner energy which guide one to theContinueContinue reading “True Soul Mate”
The people asked for a king: Selling ourselves
Today’s king is celebrity culture. Many are voluntarily enslaved to it. The pervasive idea is: You’re no one unless a lot of people know you and want to be like you. People worship at the altar of images. {Follow the link to read the full article.}
Note to self: Legacy of today.
Luckily, that feeling forces you to focus more on today…
The sexing of media and the dumbing of the public
At a certain point, higher education becomes another process for dumbing down, in that students are taught to “think” in a certain way that makes them appropiately “academic”. As long as you are attaining knowledge, it’s good. However, there is a peak to everything. After the peak, the more you acquire does you less and less good. So it is with education.