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- November 7th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
Of war and elephants*
Modern warfare is not natural; our bellicose human habits violate long-evolved prosocial norms shared by animals everywhere, including the mighty, brainy elephant. Elephant society only fell victim to…
- November 4th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Insomnia: relentlessly awake; becoming aware; writing it through ...
Every day lived in yoke to a habit is an opportunity to unravel one more knot in its becoming. Tonight, while my beloved watched a movie, I lay in bed with the cats and read. At about 10:40, he began…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
The November decline ... Hexagram 41, DIMINISHMENT
I'll tell you what love of this life is.It's looking upthrough trees newly bare of leavesand seeing there the oldest road,a broken line of white starsstretching out across the sky.It's thinking,this c…
- October 30th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Not much to say lately ... but I do have a ...
Thanks to the lovely small dose of life for this wee gift ...
- October 29th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
I weep ...
... and I suspect that the president did, too, when he returned to the White House after today's pre-dawn ceremony to receive and honour 18 soldiers who were recently killed in Afghanistan ...More her…
- October 25th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
I don\'t know whether to laugh or cry in the long run ...
... but right now, I'm losing it like a kid who's farted in church. That photo makes me explode. (With laughter!)What you see is a motorized La-Z-Boy chair. Its owner, adaptor and operator was recent…
- October 24th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
A book for one of the I Ching\'s core principles, KINDNESS (aka Benevolence)
Kindness is as intrinsic to our nature as generosity is to our Earth ... and I'm definitely going to read a book that tells me that kindness is "potentially far more promiscuous than sexuality." Marcu…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
"In every experience of true listening ...
... there is a mysterious moment in which the one who listens steps out from a fortress of self-concern and dwells silently in the truth of the one who speaks. This is a moment of great risk and great…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
- October 22nd, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Can empathy make us ill?
Such a strange question to ask ... but a memory brought it on ...... I'm five or six years old, walking along a roadway beside an adult -- someone I know (whom the adult me can't recall right now...).…
- October 20th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
An offbeat possibility for Hexagram 51, SHOCK
Art is not cosy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended.Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince... Is this light ... lightnin…
- October 19th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
There are days ...
... like today, when I come to from a deep, dream-wild daytime sleep and blearily wonder if I'm dying, convalescing, or slooowly wilting in some biochemical bog ...Then I rouse myself beyond the brown…
- October 17th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
Jaliya down the rabbit hole.
I woke up this morning in the wake of an epic dream about Barack Obama. Dammit, I can't recall details, except that I was chasing after my friends, all of whom had met him. He was everywhere -- on a l…
- October 15th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Things come together ...
I love how synchronicity happens. Lately, I've been thinking about my almost nullified appetite. Food? -- meh! Couldn't care less. I need an appetite activation.Today, I met with a psychiatrist for a…
- October 14th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Going through a rough patch.
About all I can manage right now in blogging is to offer some quotations and notes that I've scrawled here and there. My focus has been crap lately, so I keep returning to these little icons of empath…
- October 11th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Wow.
The one thing a clenched fist can't do is to accept the helping hand.~Frederick Buechner~ "Boxing grannies" at http://www.gogo-gadgets.co.uk
- October 10th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Can't get enough Springsteen ...
Lately I've been listening chronically to Bruce Springsteen's music -- especially his more subdued ballads. His album, The Rising, has become a perennial favourite. He released The Rising in 2002, in…
- October 9th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
My two cents about the Nobel Peace Prize
My first thought upon reading the news of Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win was, "For the man he chooses to be, he deserves it." For what he's accomplished ... I think he's done what he can so far.…
- October 8th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
Hexagram 37 -- INTIMATE BONDS
To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumbcreatures in the world’s full reserve, the unsayable sums,joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count.(Rainer Maria Rilke, “Sonnets to Orpheu…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
A semi-snarky affirmation for depression ...
When it's pissing rain inside and out, remember that rainbows also exist!
- October 6th, 2009
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I\'m having an utterly useless day.
I just captioned this photo over at cheezburger. I'm so proud of myself.So there it is; I've shot some farty humour into cyberspace. That's about the extent of my day so far.Depression sucks.... Love…
- October 5th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
Autumn poem (What a way to go...)
SOME FUNCTIONS OF A LEAFTo whisper. To applaud the windand hide the Hermit thrush.To catch the lightand work the humble spell of photosynthesis(excuse me, sir, if I might have one word)by which it’s…
- October 3rd, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Fun for Introverts!
I got giddy tonight in the wake of yesterday's conversational marathon with my friend QP, a zany, gentle sage whose charm and elegant sass make me think of Eloise ... ... all grown up. QP moved up to…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Further to "God talk" ...
... I just found this quotation:I’m not seeking anything. I’m done. There’s nothing more to be sought. And yet ...there is this ongoing process of clarification, or embodiment, or deepening ...~…
- October 2nd, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
God-talk
Today I found an old notebook in which I'd written:"Don't tell" ...... If we can't communicate with another human being -- if we're told not to -- to whom or what will we turn?Among others, and in cou…
- September 30th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
Thanks, dear Moey ...
... for the giddy, goofy and restorative weekend we shared with you and Joni at your wee sanctuary in the forest ...The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, w…
- September 23rd, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
Food for thought: maturity
Maturity has less to do with getting older and more to do with how we transform our experiences into stories we can bear to carry forward. ~Heather Birrell ~Digital art: "Maturity", by Rick Hocker.
- September 22nd, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
In the deeps (Hexagram 29)
Questions that tap into our mortality, our pain, our selfishness, our basic needs, questions that arise from the immeasurable darkness, light, or mystery of our lives, require more than Answerization.…
- September 21st, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
"A failure of will" ... ?
One of humanity's oldest stigmas about depression is that the condition is a failure of the will. Buck up, the stigma barks, and we push on or collapse.What if depression is a failure, though, in the…
- September 18th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Then and now in the realm of dreams
"Alma en el estudio", by Golucho.During the first decade after I moved out of my parents' home, I had recurring dreams of being in houses we'd lived in. Standing in the corners of many rooms were miss…
- September 17th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
The essence of Hexagram 32, ENDURANCE
I do.I do ... one of the most potent word pairings in any language. The marital vow that declares a bond, a choice, a commitment.Beyond the familiar context of a wedding, the words "I do" underscore a…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
I have the attention span of half a gnat today ...
"Poof", by Josh Billings... so I'm just going to open my "What makes me happy?" book and offer some jottings from 1990 to now about what I'm grateful for.I have about 40 blog posts that are in various…
- September 15th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
Healing is ...
... the Boss.C'mon, rise up with these hands Art: "Praising Hands" by Susan Manzello (On days like today, it's artists like these who help me go on. )Rise up.Bruce Springsteen photo found at Dummidumb…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Losing the good ... gaining the great
I just found this image at PostSecret ... Somehow it makes sense, even though I don't have any words to comment on it ...Food for thought: What good things have you given up in order to make room for…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
9/12
We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions and sentimentalities.(Josephine W. Johnson, The Inland Island) None can be called deformed but the unkind.(William Sha…
- September 11th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
9/11
I wrote a post a year ago, commemorating the day ... and celebrating my brother's survival through it. He, a captain with United Airlines, was flying out of an east coast city that morning, but I didn…
- September 10th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
- September 9th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
Oppression ... and its undoing. (Hexagram 47)
Thoreau said it most succinctly:"The masses of men lead lives of quiet desperation."We can be slaves to a regime -- to whatever institution it may be; we can lose our autonomy to an illness or injury;…
- September 1st, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
Gratitude, first of all ... (Hexagram/Principle 2 -- EARTH)
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.~ Cicero ~Gratitude ... first and always, for the Life that sustains us; for the Earth and Sun; for the elements that wed on…
- August 29th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
I'm sorry ... but I have to do it.
I have to appoint an A**hole of the Day ... no, two. I've just scanned the headlines at the Huffington Post and seen that Mike Huckabee, A**hole #1, recently suggested that, under his delusional inter…
- August 28th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
Let all go ... (Hexagram / Principle 59, DISSIPATION)
... Lightly, my darling, lightly. Even when it comes to dying. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self-conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of…
- August 27th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Thoughts while surfing
My attention has been zapping all over Creation, so I've started about 15 blog posts and finished none! I've captured a theme in my online wanderings tonight -- mental illness, or as I call it: "menta…
- August 26th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
A wee thought ...
When you pray for one, you pray for all. Never doubt the power of a merciful thought.
- August 25th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
A sage speaks: our common extremes (Hexagram 38, CONTRADICTION)
I recognize in all souls our common extremes of courage and brutality; love and contempt; our knack for colouring this black and that white; our penchant for extremes. What is sunlit at noon is in sha…
- August 23rd, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
A good thought for these madding times ...
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.~ Charles Bukowski ~(Hold fast ... )Top image: artist unknownLower image: Art of Inclusion, by Larry Poncho Brown
- August 22nd, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
Read this and pass it on ASAP ...
A sane, measured, heartrending post that to my eye, says it all about the cruel idiocy -- "Obama's a Nazi!" -- taking root in some people ... Thank you, Jeannie, for composing this story ...Read with…
- August 20th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
Being ALIVE is a pre-existing condition!
The worst betrayal that insurance corps can inflict on individual people is the denial of coverage for any "pre-existing condition." If you wonder if there might be any pre-existing conditions among a…
- August 19th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
No wonder people in their 20s and 30s are being felled by heart attacks ...
In most mental illnesses the capacity to relax is as much impaired as the integrity of a bone is destroyed by fracture.(Abraham Myerson)
