I’ve been watching a lot of space tv on PBS lately. I’m a huge fan of science documentaries and such, but especially space: cosmology, planetary science, origins of life, exploration, all the things. I love it. It’s my comfort food, I think because of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, which was like religion in my house. We […]
Gather ’round the bubbling cauldron, dearies … Sometimes you just need to saddle up the broomstick and go take care o’ business. The highest court in the US in occupied largely by the lowest of the low. Failed humans sheltering a criminal who committed treason in order to stay in power indefinitely. Unconscionable, intolerable. VOTE.
Oh, funny humans. So obsessed with milestones and new years and the ready-set-go. We get all excited about stuff, like the fact that the last day of 2023 was 12-31-23, or 123 123, like it meant something. People, the Julian calendar was slammed together by a bunch of self-serving Roman jerks who were so far
I’m going to be taking a little time away from most things involving binocular vision. Not quite sure for how long yet. I may have mentioned that my vision is crap once or twice … well, not joking about that. And next week I’m having the first of two eye surgeries that will hopefully fix
I try not to whine about my personal shit – unless I can use it as fodder for a post. I’ve been sick as the proverbial dog since the end of February. Not with the ‘rona, or any other virus that’s currently stalking the land. No. I have been sick as a dog because of
The Big Secret is, secrets are dumb and we are better than that. People who want to have secrets are people who want power over others. Anybody who says to you, “Yes, I can teach you the secrets of blah blah blah universal blah blah blah, sign up for my $6000 course,” might be taking
Give thanks for your wounds, they’re where you had to grow. Leonard Cohen says the cracks are where the light gets in. Same sort of idea, really. The Japanese art of repairing pottery with gold and lacquer is a celebration of this idea as well. Celebrate your broken places, and your healing, too, of course.
I write a lot about how science and “psience” are strange bedfellows. It’s not that we don’t like science over here – we do! Very much! However … science tends to see a lot of things as black-and-white issues, one way or another, right or wrong, sci-way or high-way. And it gets a little old
Air hasn’t always just been just the stuff that surrounds us that we have to breathe. In ancient Greece, Air was called the Anima, before that word got dumbed down to mean the interiority of our being-ness, totally separate and individual and un-connected to anything else around us. Even the Bible acknowledges, multiple times actually,
An ancient and much sought after recipe (that I just made up): Place the cauldron on a tripod over a medium fire. Preparation time: decades. Cook time: as long as you need. Serves … well, you and everybody around you, to be honest, but let’s just say … five. Take one measure of humility, but
