Yesterday i was grateful for sharing turkey with my cousin and her beautiful family.
Today i am looking forward to not having to drive anywhere!
This seems particularly relevant to the present moment in history…
Yesterday i was grateful for sharing turkey sandwiches and spending time with my brother and sister in law, nieces, nephew, niece significant others and Suede, a sweet and talkative lab mix.
Today i am looking forward to sharing the fourth of our four Thanksgivings with my cousin, her children and grandchildren.
From this morning…
Frost on a car…
Plastic Santa…
… maybe i’m projecting, but he looks a little concerned…
Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. (Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian)
Religion takes seriously both the thisness of the individual, at one extreme of the scale, and the fate of the cosmos at the other, and shows them to be part of one whole. It is the absence of this integrative perspective that Dewey called the ‘deepest problem of modern life’. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
Thanksgiving became a thing during The Civil War… it is worth reading HCR’s post for context… my hope is that we can have the argument more peacefully this time around…
i wish everyone celebrating an American Thanksgiving a happy one filled with family… i wish everyone else things you can be grateful for throughout the day…
Yesterday i was grateful for time spent reading with Holly.
Today i am looking forward to thanksgiving with my brother and sister in law.
The Christmas mood growing…
In other words, the fact that we in the US care so much about money and possessions, and have collectively accumulated such staggering material wealth—these are indicators that something is very wrong. They speak to how diminished our lives are in very important respects, and how disconnected we have become from the fundamental wealth of ourselves and the world. (Jeff Golden, Reclaiming the Sacred)
As John Muir put it: No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in the way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains to wildness as that which regards the world as made especially for the uses of man. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
Just as naïve materialists do great damage to science by their over-reaching claims of access to ‘the truth’ – even to sole access to truth – on her behalf, so do misguided religious figureheads and their lay ‘supporters’ to religion, when they don’t know enough to see what it is they don’t know. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
What Zeno discovered was that, if you stop time’s flow, and find states (by definition, ‘static’), you make nonsense out of it. Because it doesn’t just have flow, but is flow: stopping it therefore destroys its very nature. There is no flow without time, and there is no time without flow. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
‘the greater the financial and other interests and prejudices in a scientific field the less likely the research findings are to be true’. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
Yesterday i was grateful for the good work of my colleagues at the cemetery.
Today i am looking forward to lunch with the yoga men.
Radical feminism, and this by no means includes all positions within the Women’s Liberation Movement, postulates that the domination of one human being by another is the basic evil in society. Dominance in human relationships is the target of their opposition. (bell hooks, Feminist Theory)
What has been happening to our intelligent capacity to make sense of the world? I will argue in this chapter that it is in decline because we are increasingly wearing what James Flynn, one of the most famous living intelligence researchers, calls ‘scientific spectacles’. What this amounts to is that the right hemisphere understanding is being ‘elbowed’ out by the left hemisphere’s insistence that we see the world its way: even though this way is less intelligent. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
Truth is not a thing to be possessed, however immaterial, but a path to follow, a process. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
Love does not lead to an end to difficulties, it provides us with the means to cope with our difficulties in ways that enhance our growth. (bell hooks, All About Love)
Yesterday i was grateful to get home safely in spite of heavy traffic.
Today i am looking forward to returning to my routines.
From this morning…
Last night I was grateful for the crescent moon on my midnight bathroom run.
Today I am looking forward to traveling home and trying on the new clothes that came while I was gone.