Loose Leaf Notes

1. My August 12th Facebook Post:  Would we give permits and allow child pornographers to march down Main Street?

2. Followed by:  Would we say the problem is coming from many sides, as if blaming the children being victimized?

3. Meet some nectar lovers, gold diggers, double dippers and secret admirers HERE.

4. Counterpoint:  After the nightly news/ comes the wood thrush/ the monks of the forest/ sing a sundown service/ buried like jewels / in canopy cathedrals/ their clarity of truth/ shines with good news/ and rises above all falsehood … More HERE.

5. My August 14th Facebook Post: So according to Trump, journalists are the enemy and not neo-nazi fascist white supremacists?

6. The media is currently just another group being slurred and degraded by the Trump administration and white nationalists. Every time I hear a phrase that degrades the press, I think of it as a hate slur. Sadly, less than a week after Charlottsville, Trump re-tweeted a picture of a CNN journalist being hit by a train.

7. Hold on because the universe is expanding and accelerating and summer is almost over.  The weather patterns have changed so that now July is August and August is September.

8. Zombie Apocalypse, a metaphor?

9. I’d rather be bit by a jellyfish than wear THIS.

10. “If you ask most people, what’s real, the present, the past or the future, they usually say the present. Actually, they’re wrong. The present is a psychological illusion. The present is just the wall between yesterday and today. You know, if you go to the beach, you see water and you see sand, and it looks like there’s a line between them, but that line is not a third thing. There’s only water, and there’s only sand. Similarly, all moments in time are either in the past or in the future.” – Harvard Psychologist Dan Gilbert

11. When an older person says they don’t have time – even though they are retired and it looks like they have plenty of time – they are not talking about time in the day but the time they have left.-  An interesting thought from Laura Carstensen founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity.

12. “When time horizons are long and nebulous as they typically are in youth, people are constantly preparing, trying to soak up all of the information they possibly can, taking risks, exploring. We might spend time with people we don’t even like because it’s somehow interesting. You know, we might learn something unexpected. As we age, our time horizons grow shorter and our goals change. When we recognize that we don’t have all the time in the world, we see our priorities most clearly; we take less notice of trivial matters; we savor her life; we’re more appreciative; we’re open to reconciliation; we invest in more emotionally important parts of life, and life gets better. – More HERE. 

13. “Meanwhile, on planet Fox, Hillary is president and it’s all her fault.” My Dharmacratic friend Will Bason

_________________Thirteen Thursday