Tag: dailyprompt
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Another Shade of Gray
“I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.” ~ Frederick Frank If I were forced to choose, and allowed to keep only three objects, I would choose my pencils, paper, and eraser.…
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Coming to Light
“Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.” ~ Franz Kafka The eclipse is portentous of dark times ahead, like an angry black sky before a storm. The life giving energy and light from the Sun…
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Roundabout
“Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer Every 20, 36, and 45 years, there are significant alignments within the cosmos, and we have absolutely no control over these movements. The same could be said about larger time frames where equally noteworthy alignments occur roughly every 127,…
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Chancelot
“When you love a lot, it hurts a lot.” Like many people, my weight has fluctuated. The range has been dramatic at times, anywhere from 10 lbs. over to maybe 50 lbs. over my ideal weight. I say “maybe” because I really don’t like to admit this. But there was a time when I wasn’t…
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Being You(r)(self)
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken” ~ Oscar Wilde Imagine being yourself! Never mind fantasizing about being Leonardo Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, or for that matter the Queen Mother. Isn’t it enough to aspire being your authentic self? Yesterday, a famous actor was found dead in his home. He spent a lifetime “portraying other…
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The Seen and the Unseen
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” ~ Helen Keller Covid was running rampant and people were just beginning to get involved in #Solidarity8 to cheer healthcare workers. Life was surreal. My son drove back from California and stayed with us. Not his ideal career move but things were shut…
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Free Speech
“The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” ~ Carl Jung Prohibitions or restrictions on speech are ultimately self-defeating. Free speech can be messy and inconvenient in the short run, and theoretically free speech might even be weaponized in the form of propaganda. In Astrology the word “afflicted”…
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Decision Point
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” ~ Joseph Campbell “What do you anticipate for yourself, say in the next six months?” This is the operative question to ask near the end of a consultation, and it is meant…
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Dance and Sing
“We must do what the gods did in the beginning.” ~ Mircea Eliade I was part of a small entourage invited to witness a sacred ceremony that pays homage to Naatsis’áán (Navajo Mountain, “Head of the Earth Mother”). Although not one of the four sacred mountains which mark the boundaries of the Navajo homeland, in…
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Free Parking
“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it” ~ Henry David Thoreau Rules bore me! Like watching paint dry, or waiting for a pot to boil. Many rules that get put in place, for example if we consider securities rules for municipal bonds, are established because people tend to not be…
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