What The World / Needs Now

Wednesday's Child

Wednesday's Wonder

though the story never ends

Somewhere Between Fiction and Nonfiction

Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.


--Nora Ephron

Celestial Soundtrack

Sunday's Song: Advent Flash Mob

Wopila!

Sunday's Song

Veterans Day

“All we wanted to know was who the bad guys were. But nobody knew. We were getting picked off one by one and we couldn’t find the bad guys. Some guy who was helping you during the day might kill you at night. The enemy didn’t wear uniforms. Far more innocent people got hurt than anyone else. It wasn’t malicious. It was just legitimately confusing situations. When you’re driving to a meeting and a car bomb explodes, suddenly every car looks like a bomb. And you’re surrounded by cars. And anybody could have a suicide vest. And you’re surrounded by people. It was threat overload. And it was mentally exhausting."


There are nearly 2.5 million post-9/11 veterans in the United States.




In August,  Humans of New York partnered with Headstrong project and shared stories of American veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 





The HONY series is here.




And this is where you can learn more about Headstrong.
It's a veteran founded organization whose mission is to cut the red tape and give top notch care to those who seek it. 
Free of cost, free of bureaucracy. 
If you are looking for a way to give back today, this is a great organization to support. 

Loveliest Leonard

Go ahead Mr. Wendell

To treat life as less than a miracle is to give up on it.



--Wendell Berry

da Mudder and da Fadder and a breadroll and some Nutella

If Olympic coverage is overwhelming you, just watch the important parts.


This, for example:

Food, Water, Mountains

“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.”


--John Muir, Our National Parks

Be Here Now(ish)

Sunday's Song with Super Seniors!

Precepts

"We carry within us the wonders we seek around us."


--Thomas Browne, Sir

a conversation on imagined satisfaction

There is the conversation between Bill Moyers and Pema Chodron, and then there is the conversation that Pema has with herself. 


So much beauty in how she uses herself as both teacher and student. 


Ever learning and ever teaching what she learns. 

firefly

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