We made it to another weekend, Modern Philosophers!  It was a close one…

The Winter Olympics are back, so when you put on your Deep Thinking Toga tonight and head out to the Think Tank, perhaps you should adorn your toga with your nation’s flag to honor your Olympic athletes.

I’m extremely tired, so let’s get right down to it.  Meet me out at the Think Tank immediately!

This week’s topic: If you could compete in any Winter Olympics event, which one would it be?

Without a doubt, it would be Ice Hockey for me.

That’s the one sport that I can still get excited about every four years when the Winter Olympics rolls around again.  Even though I rarely watch NHL hockey anymore, I’ll try my best to watch all of Team USA’s games.

I loved playing hockey and was a huge Islanders fan back in the day.  I…

Everyone has memories

Like the ones that make us smile

Or those that make us frown

They’re simply memories

They catch us unawares

Then we feel other people stare

Smiling like a fool

That we’ve broke every rule

Of…propriety

Not linked at all to sobriety

Just a fool with crazy memories

Making smiles appear like anemones

Who cares if we’re ridiculous

It’s the memory

The one that’s in front of us

Making us smile

Or frown

A simple backwards smile

As though we forgot how to smile

Which way our mouth should go

For our heart is broken like the rest of us

We have no way of moving forward

Held back by the desire

To recapture the bliss that enraptured us

Before we became what we once were

And could no longer see the person

Who we had once been

Beautiful, in love,

Our hearts open wide

Dreaming of…

I once read that actions such as the denial of the Holocaust, and the use of racist strategies generally — against Jews, Muslims, Serbs, Croats, whomever — contain the foundation of the destruction and failure of those who practice them. I agree. Keeping that thought in mind and heart, I hope that Barry M. Lituchy’s Serbian propaganda will soon stumble upon its deserved demise.  It is impossible for me and, I guess, every human being who thrives on truth to keep quiet about blanket racist political strategies that seem to focus on the destroying of one person via vilifying a whole nation of people.  That is racist and that is how, one by one person, masses have been murdered and it strikes ones gasping for justice when encountered.

I turn here to a letter, that has just come to light, reportedly written to FIFA by Barry M Lituchy (an adjunct…

~~February 7, 2014~~

Starting the day with wonderful, touching and inspiring quotes from Anthony Douglas Williams places you in a good spot.

I hope this gives you the inspiration that it gives me to look at this world in turmoil with clear, positive eyes. There’s so much that takes away from our inner peace. 

Just look around the corner, look at the newspapers, look at the news.

There is still good in this world. It’s inside all of us. More attention is needed to the inside. WE are the celebrities!! 

Hope you enjoy!! 

~~POWER OF LOVE~~

~~BIG HEARTS~~

~~MINGLE WITH GOOD PEOPLE …. NOURISH YOUR SOUL~~

~~LISTEN TO UNTOUCHED NATURE …. GARDEN OF CREATION~~

~~LOVE IS POWERFUL~~

~~SOULS SPEAK THROUGH ACTIONS~~

Sources:

https://www.facebook.com/InsideTheDivinePattern

http://www.divinepattern.com/AboutTheAuthor.htm

http://www.animal-voices.com/news/anthony-douglas-williams/

Inside the Divine Pattern – 11:11, 12-21-2012, Ancient Secrets, Spiritual Changes

* February 6, 1820…Freed U. S. Slaves depart on journey to Africa*

The first organized immigration of freed slaves to Africa from the United States departs New York harbor on a journey to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in West Africa. The immigration was largely the work of the American Colonization Society, a U.S. organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to return freed American slaves to Africa. However, the expedition was also partially funded by the U.S. CONGRESS, which in 1819 had appropriated $100,000 to be used in returning displaced Africans, illegally brought to the United States after the abolishment of the slave trade in 1808, to Africa.

The program was modeled after British’s efforts to resettle freed slaves in Africa following England’s abolishment of the slave trade in 1772. In 1787, the British government settled 300 former slaves and 70 white prostitutes on the Sierra Leone peninsula in West Africa…