Was She chanting for Bread? Was He shouting “Liberty”? Was It demanding Social Justice?
The majority might pretend to own moral values, but if it closes its eyes to hunger, dictatorship, and injustice, those values are not mine. The yes-men of the state might try to stand between us and God, but my God does not rub shoulders with dictators and their enablers. I worship the God of Bread, Liberty, and Social Justice.
Yet beauty’s visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm, it calls us to feel think and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful. A life without delight is only half a life. Lest this be construed as a plea for decadence or a self-indulgence that is blind to the horrors of the world, we should remember that beauty does not restrict its visitations only to those whom fortune or circumstances favour. Indeed, it is often the whispers and glimpses of beauty which enable people to endure on desperate frontiers.
For the last 5 years or so, I’ve been mixing coconut oil and butter in my coffee. And, I love it.
This is the last day in a month you will never see again in your lifetime.
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We know that sound results from the vibrations of air molecules moving through the air to our eardrums, that the speed of those vibrations is referred to as frequency, measured in Hertz, and that pitch is the relative highness or lowness of a sound. But what is music?
This seems tragic to me.
Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tonnes — gets lost or wasted.
Industrialized and developing countries dissipate roughly the same quantities of food — respectively 670 and 630 million tonnes.
I occasionally work for a local food bank called Community Action Network. It’s a great service to a community that has people in need. They distribute food for free to folks that need it. I like to help out and I get some free food. I’m amazed how much overproduction of food there is floating around. The are a lot of canned goods, but loads of fresh foods too. Much of it is approaching expiration. If you go look you can find surprises there.
Today, I’m a raw nerve. I am a 360 degree, fully dimensional person. I feel things, I react, I acknowledge, I let them go.
I don’t know if it’s bio-rhythms, phases of the moon or some other force, but I am emotional today. I feel like a hut on a beach with no walls in the tropics. The wind blows through all day in different strengths and from different directions carrying scents from far away.
YOU. ARE. WHAT. YOU. THINK.
Buddha: “get a grip on your mind” Me: “dude, I’m trying”
