Tonight’s Christmas movie… Meet Me in St. Louis…
Yesterday i was grateful for my yoga practice.
Today i am looking forward to coffee with KL.
- Lost at Christmas
- Polar Express
- Spirited
My first three Christmas movies!
Yesterday I was grateful for football with my brother and watching Polar Express with my wife.
Today i am looking forward to returning to my yoga practice…
The first signs of resistance in my city…
from this morning’s walk…
Odds and ends from yesterday…
Christmas decorations from yesterday…
Yesterday i was grateful for sharing turkey with my cousin and her beautiful family.
Today i am looking forward to not having to drive anywhere!
This seems particularly relevant to the present moment in history…
Yesterday i was grateful for sharing turkey sandwiches and spending time with my brother and sister in law, nieces, nephew, niece significant others and Suede, a sweet and talkative lab mix.
Today i am looking forward to sharing the fourth of our four Thanksgivings with my cousin, her children and grandchildren.
From this morning…
Frost on a car…
Plastic Santa…
… maybe i’m projecting, but he looks a little concerned…
Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. (Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian)
Religion takes seriously both the thisness of the individual, at one extreme of the scale, and the fate of the cosmos at the other, and shows them to be part of one whole. It is the absence of this integrative perspective that Dewey called the ‘deepest problem of modern life’. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
Thanksgiving became a thing during The Civil War… it is worth reading HCR’s post for context… my hope is that we can have the argument more peacefully this time around…
i wish everyone celebrating an American Thanksgiving a happy one filled with family… i wish everyone else things you can be grateful for throughout the day…
Yesterday i was grateful for time spent reading with Holly.
Today i am looking forward to thanksgiving with my brother and sister in law.
The Christmas mood growing…
In other words, the fact that we in the US care so much about money and possessions, and have collectively accumulated such staggering material wealth—these are indicators that something is very wrong. They speak to how diminished our lives are in very important respects, and how disconnected we have become from the fundamental wealth of ourselves and the world. (Jeff Golden, Reclaiming the Sacred)
As John Muir put it: No dogma taught by the present civilization seems to form so insuperable an obstacle in the way of a right understanding of the relations which culture sustains to wildness as that which regards the world as made especially for the uses of man. Every animal, plant, and crystal controverts it in the plainest terms. Yet it is taught from century to century as something ever new and precious, and in the resulting darkness the enormous conceit is allowed to go unchallenged. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
Just as naïve materialists do great damage to science by their over-reaching claims of access to ‘the truth’ – even to sole access to truth – on her behalf, so do misguided religious figureheads and their lay ‘supporters’ to religion, when they don’t know enough to see what it is they don’t know. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
What Zeno discovered was that, if you stop time’s flow, and find states (by definition, ‘static’), you make nonsense out of it. Because it doesn’t just have flow, but is flow: stopping it therefore destroys its very nature. There is no flow without time, and there is no time without flow. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)
‘the greater the financial and other interests and prejudices in a scientific field the less likely the research findings are to be true’. (Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things)