Category Archives: developing relationships

Together, We Make the World We Live In

An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word “love” — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can … Continue reading

Posted in All part of the process, anthropology, Being Human, developing relationships, mindworks, Other peoples words, paying attention, philosophy, symbioses and synthesis, thinking in words | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Empathy Breeds Survival

Mary Cassatt, the child’s bath      

Posted in All part of the process, anthropology, Being Human, bodyworks, developing relationships, Family, mindworks, sympathy and empahty, thinking in words | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Rachel Carson: The Beauties and Mysteries of the Earth

Originally posted on Vox Populi:
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.?–? It is a curious situation that the sea, from…

Posted in change, Check this out, delusions of progress, developing relationships, discovery and recovery, lists, make your own world, mindworks, Other peoples words, paying attention, philosophy, symbioses and synthesis, Teaching and Learning, thinking in words, wonder world | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Palabras/Words: Poems in Spanish Translated to English #2

By Cesar Vallejo Translated by James Wright and Robert Bly

Posted in Abstraction, Books, Check this out, developing relationships, Dreamtime, mindworks, my museum of inspiration, poetry | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Tarot #70: Oppression, burdening or imprisonment willfully enforced upon body, mind or spirit.

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things are the forerunners of pleasure. –Rumi Sometimes oppression comes from without when some people seek abusive power over others on any scale from a 2 person relationship to a dictatorial regime … Continue reading

Posted in All part of the process, banality of evil, Being Human, can't really complain but, change, Chaos and Order, delusions of progress, developing relationships, mindworks, my mystic toolbox, Other peoples words, paying attention, philosophy, thinking in words | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment