Friendship Is Sacred

bluejayblog

The amount of cringe-worthy stuff my true blue friends know about me makes me shudder. This is also true about the things I know about them. We keep these issues away from public knowledge out of mutual trust. True blue friends or BFFs can sense each others’ malarky, call each other out on it, and have a good laugh afterwards. I can count the number of my true blue friends on the fingers of one hand, and that’s OK. Like gold, rarity helps make such friends precious.

I’ve often wondered why society doesn’t have a special holiday for friends as we do for Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day. After all, for great numbers of people, especially those who were raised in dysfunctional families, friends play an important role in personal development and well-being. BFFs are proof that families of choice can be more profound and loving than families of birth…

View original post 418 more words

Wet’suwet’en update 11/17/2021

LANDBACK Friends

I try to do most of the writing on this blog, rather than sharing tweets and videos. But it is important for those on the frontlines to tell their stories themselves.

Some may wonder why I, a white male in the so-called United States, follows so closely and writes about the Wet’suwet’en. There are several reasons. My whole life I have worked to reduce fossil fuel use. Which has been frustrating because so few people in industrialized societies look beyond their own needs for fossil fuels for transportation, heating, cooking, and all the products made from fossil fuels, such as plastics, etc. Our capitalist economy focuses on these things, completely ignoring the draining of non-renewable fossil fuel supplies and the many damages to Mother Earth.

The situation with the Wet’suwet’en peoples is an example of the global nature of environmental devastation. And their Indigenous leadership is an example of the…

View original post 663 more words

Nuances

Vivaldi translation: Life passes like a taste of wind
And happiness lasts only at times
Today was already yesterday
Alas, we will not be able to do everything
Tomorrow is here and now
Leaving the impression of already seen
Who would have believed it ?
The sun sets every day
Behind the velvet clouds.

De malinha pronta

La vie passe tel un coup de vent
Et le bonheur ne dure qu’un instant
Aujourd’hui était déjà hier
Hélas, on ne pourra pas tout faire
Demain c’est ici et maintenant
Laissant l’impression de déjà vu
Qui l’aurait cru?
Le soleil se couche chaque jour
Derrière les nuages de velours.

Filipa Moreira da Cruz

Photos : Filipa Moreira da Cruz

View original post

Wondering Wednesdays, Do Better, Chapter 7 Intro: mapping out Phase I

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

This post is the start of the rough draft of  Chapter 7, for my non-fiction WiP, Baby Floors.  

Putting a floor on poverty so that each and every baby born can have a safe childhood.

Outlines for some of chapter 7 will be at the bottom of this post (JYP!).

Once again, by way of disclaimer, the overall goal is now to explain why we need both equ. + justice, & why in 4 phases.  This chapter is part of showing what Phases I-IV could look like as potential roadmap for a fully inclusive society for all of us.  This vision is laid out in the hope that All HumanKind  will eventually have each person’s basic needs  met, without taking anything from anyone, and without violence, intimidation, nor coercion of any kind. 

Chapter 7 Introduction:

( Chapter 6, section IV was last week…)

 

Chapter 7 Introduction: How Phase I…

View original post 1,184 more words