Donald Trump’s very act of making such apocalyptic threats, including his warning of ending ‘a whole civilization’, reveals a staggering level of cruelty and disregard for human life. https://t.co/H9DEdcGRHZ
I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.
BREAKING: Jeff Daniels on Donald Trump: "We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us. He’s everything that’s wrong with not just America but being a human being.”
“If you don't know the kind of person I am
and I don't know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.”
William Stafford (1998).
A lesson I wish I had learned earlier: You don’t need to overhaul your life to change it. You just need to interrupt one pattern. One bad habit replaced. One conversation you stop avoiding. One standard you finally enforce. Tiny pivots compound into massive transformation.
Leading theories of memory describe it as being stored in the brain—similarly to the way computers store memory. But this assumption relies on materialist assumptions and bypasses the hard problem of consciousness. Memory is not stored in space but in time https://t.co/ImmQCyZPY3
Long, but inspiring, excerpt for the late bloomers and those whose personal path feels out of step from the collective's, especially its 'timetable' for significant life events.
'Each individual . . . has his own natural pattern of growth and his own timetable for development.'
Turmeric fights inflammation with curcumin, its key compound.
It blocks NF-κB, lowers CRP & IL-6, and acts as a powerful antioxidant.
For better absorption, pair it with black pepper & healthy fats like olive oil.
It has many other health benefits too:
From “For the Artist at the Start of the Day” - Benedictus: A Book of Blessings - John O’Donohue
Merry Christmas! 🕯️
“A morning when you become a pure vessel
For what wants to ascend from silence,
May your imagination know
The grace of perfect danger,
To reach beyond imitation,
And the wheel of repetition,
Deep into the call of all
The unfinished and unsolved
Until the veil of the unknown yields
And something original begins
To stir towards your senses
And grow stronger in your heart”