new beginnings

As of today 04 Dec 2014 posts from this account are suspended.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
~ Seneca 

"We Will Need Writers Who Can Remember Freedom”: Ursula Le Guin and Last Night’s N.B.A.s

"Power can be resisted and changed by human beings; resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words. . . .The name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom." ~ Ursula Le Guin 

I got this link from a young woman whom I watched grow into her own power as her aunts and I hang out through the years. She comes from a long and strong lineage of women of substance.

She got her PhD in anthropology and teaches at the state university, inspiring another generation of movers and shakers. She runs a bookstore [Mt Cloud Bookshop] in our summer capital in the Mountain Province.

The Lim women and others like them keep our lights shining bright. A truly valuable inheritance.

Change – how we deal / let go / learn

"Human beings are always, and always will be, a frontier between what is known and what is not known. The act of turning any part of the unknown into the known is simply an invitation for an equal measure of the unknown to flow in and reestablish that frontier: to reassert the far horizon of an individual life; to make us what we are – that is - a moving edge between what we know about ourselves and what we are about to become. What we are actually about to become or are afraid of becoming always trumps and rules over what we think we are already." ©2014David Whyte ~ Excerpted from ‘SELF KNOWLEDGE' From the upcoming book of essays CONSOLATIONS: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning in Everyday Words. 

Art by John Adamski – "Red Walk"

Vote

General elections in the United States were held on Tuesday, November 4, 2014. 

As recent transplants, we were eager and excited to take action and make our vote count. 

As stated in Barack Obama's post voting thank you, "The hardest thing in politics is changing the status quo. The easiest thing is to get cynical." 

Whatever the outcome, they are better because we stepped up, talked to our family and friends, and cast our ballot. 

magical moments, monumental magic

This hallow's eve and day of the dead our thoughts turn to inner bliss and outer calm.

A Blessed Diwali to us all!

Diwali - the East India festival of lights - stands for hope, friendship and goodwill. 

A renewed commitment to celebrate the joy in life!