I would like to introduce a new member of the WordPress family. My grandson , Trey posted his first blog yesterday. He wants to be a sports writer as well as continue with his music. His blog is 4npsports.
Monthly Archives: May 2013
I will be back in 2 weeks
I wanted to tell all of my readers that I will be away for 2 weeks. My oldest grandson is graduating and I am going to watch all of them while my daughter finishes her work for the year. I will try to blog while I am away but I will be busy. I wish you all a wonderful Memorial Day.I will be looking forward to reconnecting with my WordPress family.
Babies are not born thinking others are different.
The picnic
We are all brothers and sisters in this life journey
Van Gogh
spring popping up everywhere
The Poetry of the Mystics
A wise goal for each of us.
The Lord Be Praised
“The lips of the one I love are my perpetual pleasures:
The Lord be praised, for my heart’s desire is attained.
O Fate, cherish my darling close to your breast:
Present now the golden wine-cup, now the rubies of those lips.
They talk scandal about us, and say we are drunks–
The silly old men, the elders lost in their error.
But we have done penance on the pious man’s behalf,
And ask God’s pardon for what the religious do.
O my dear, how can I speak of being apart from you?
The eyes know a hundred tears, and the soul has a hundred sighs.
I’d not have even an infidel suffer the torment your beauty has caused
To the cypress which envies your body, and the moon that’s outshone by your face.
Desire for you lips has stolen from Hafiz’ thought
His evening lectionary, and reciting the Book at dawn.
——Hafiz, translated from Persian by Peter Avery and John Heath-Stubbs
Spiritual energy
The Mirage
One day in the desert a bedouin
Looked up and saw a mirage shimmering
Ahead. Not water, but the splendor of
A dazzling girl.
In the thirsty, burning desert
among dry thorns, under a shadowless sun
He tried to reach her but instead
Of that marvelous love he found death.
In his immaterial, immortal sleep
He still saw the splendor of that girl
Shimmering ahead, an eternal mirage.
And in his endless dream he began to walk looking for her.”
—-Avedik Issahakian, translated from the Armenian by Diana Der Hovanessian
The journey is peace and we must meet every act of violence with peace and loving forgiveness
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The beauty of poetry is that the words and images are never out of style. They can be thousands of years old and still have meaning and messages for the present time.
Honoring the Blessing of Children
I may have mentioned my nine grandchildren before. From now on I will call them the grands. I have 3 elder grands, the twins, the baby grands and the monkey. He is the only one who lives in town and so I get to see him more often. I had him yesterday. A day filled with laughter and tag and a ball stuck in a tree and Star Wars. A day for us both to cherish. My oldest grand is graduating Thursday, so I will be going for the festivities. I am so proud of him. His campus has been in lockdown several times in the last two years. No one has been hurt but the closeness of danger and evil is frightening. This is a part of my feelings about guns and the people who shoot others with them.
Children are so precious and people always say that they are strong and will get over anything that happens in childhood. In reality, we allow them to be scarred emotionally and mentally far too often. Some with therapy will work through it and lead a productive life. Some grow up with trust issues, or become rapists or serial killers. Some are batterers and pedophiles. We need to do a better job of protecting the children and encouraging them to fly and be all they can be and come back to the roost whenever they really need to.
Years ago, I found this poem and got it on little tee shirts for the grands that I had at that time. So, in honor of every child on our globe trying to grow up in a world we have filled with anger, hatred, danger, and stress; I give these words to them and to those people who are raising them or their parents.
A goal to ending violence, hatred and war
Women Are Bitches – The Rumpus.net
Fantastic blog. Quite beautiful and it evokes love and peace.
Theodore Roosevelt on GOP Entitlements
A quick yet impressive read.
“The Republican party is now facing a great crisis. It is to decide whether it will be, as in the days of Lincoln, the party of the plain people, the party of progress, the party of social and industrial justice; or whether it will be the party of privilege and of special interests, the heir to those who were Lincoln’s most bitter opponents, the party that represents the great interests within and with out Wall Street which desire through their control over the servants of the pubic to be kept immune from punishment when they do wrong and to be given privileges to which they are not entitled”. – Theodore Roosevelt
Help Senator Elizabeth Warren Fight For Students Loan Rates.
Wonderful Team Member Award
Thank you so much to TersiaBurger for nominating me for the Wonderful Team Member Award.
This award is dedicated to special readers, and I am touched that TersiaBurger would think of me for it. I humbly accept this honor, with much gratitude
1. Display the logo on your page.
2. Finish the sentence: A great reader is…
A great reader is…a person who takes the time to read what I have posted, and to comment, and who is willing to look at the various points of view that I and my readers present with an open mind. A great reader is a person who is willing to look at all aspects of the message, the beautiful, the spiritual, the artistic and the unpleasant realities that are sometimes there. A great reader is a person who is kind enough to keep coming back.
3. Nominate 14 readers I appreciate.
- Juiseppi B
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- Crowing Crone Joss
- CravesAdventure
- Carol Carlisle
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- Clanmother
- Alex Jones
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- Lightbearer
- godtisx
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Nate Silver Debunks Peggy Noonan’s Claim IRS Also Went After Individuals Opposing Obama
Mediaite
2012 electoral polling star, the New York Times’s Nate Silver, who was lauded for being right on all things 2012 election, is back crunching the numbers, this time on the IRS political targeting scandal, specifically firing back at WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan’s claim that the Obama IRS went after wealthy Republican individuals in addition to Tea Party groups in his FiveThirtyEight blog Friday.
Noonan had wrote, “The second part of the scandal is the auditing of political activists who have opposed the administration,” espousing the IRS scandal as the “worst Washington scandal since Watergate.” She went on to point out specific wealthy individuals in Idaho and Georgia that had never been audited until going against President Obama.
After conceding that some conservative Romney supporters were targeted, Silver explains those high income earners supporting President Obama were also targeted based on simple math. Silver displays a chart…
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Walking on the Path of Peace
Let the creativity flow
There have been many spiritual teachers who have advocated the path of peace. In this path people walk without regard to race, religion or ethnicity.I believe that these people are very enlightened souls who carry the responsibility of lighting the path of peace for others to follow. It takes a special heart and an open, accepting soul to do all that is required for peace.
Let your light shine on the path of peace
It is not how much we do that is important; it is the love that enables us to walk on the path of peace. Peace is part of our journey if we accept it. It is one of the choices we make on our journey through this world. The smallest action done with love takes us further down the path of peace.
The beginning of the path of peace is within ourselves, in contemplation and prayer. Silent prayer within your own home where no one is watching you is the most sincere. Then what you are performing is not for the people to witness, but for yourself and God/Goddess. Many spiritual people recommend beginning and ending the day with prayer. Whereever your journey takes you, the desire for peace comes from the Divinity within.
Fear is an emotion which can destroy peace or prevent it from taking root in people. Fear of being humiliated, of being despised, of being rebuked, of being forgotten or wronged and the fear of being ridiculed can destroy a person as they walk upon their journey. There are curves and turns in the road, and not being able to see around the next bend can cause fear. We are all capable of good and evil. No one is all good or all evil .Divinity is always stronger than the evil in the world.
Look into a baby’s eyes if you want to see Divinity. It is all that they know. They learn to hate and hurt and to destroy only as they grow. So your heart being filled with Divinity and daily choosing paths that will allow you to walk in peace is the way to begin this journey. Once you have begun, life will carry you along until you are a shining light for others.
Be the light, be the inspiration, be the reason someone is living in a state of well-being.
Sunset over water. Photograph taken and copyrighted by Barbara Mattio 2013
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