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Alphabet soup for the soul vol.2 -“F”

Words from Walden

F is for Freedom

“Freedom, in any case, is only possible by struggling for it” – Albert Einstein-

Visualize a line with zero in the middle and as you move to the left it says -1, -2 and so on. As you move to the right it says +1 and +2 etc.

If we want freedom then we have to make the decisions and choices that move us to the right side of that scale. The formula for freedom is simply to aim for more pluses than minuses.

Every time we make bad choices for our body, mind and spirit, we move to the minus side of neutral.

The thing is that we are constantly making choices each day and we can end up with plus 100 or minus 100 every day.

What we will begin to notice over time is that the more plus’ we have, the more plus’…

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THE DIRECTION A COMPASS POINTS

Fire of Moods

a compass would tell of a tale,

that all men must cleave to a place.

in this race we run,

in search of peace that eases us to our rest,

where the heart leads us to the ends of the earth,

just to find where he is at.

O North!

I entered your forth and thought you knew me,

but I was a friend you just met.

O South!

I sought you for an abode,

but the house you gave me was no resting place.

O East!

I ate at your feast and tried to belong,

but you were a tongue that reminds me that I was a stranger.

O West!

in you I thought I found rest,

but you constantly leave me thirsty for a quiet you never had.

and to find peace is to find home,

for they say home is where…

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10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #59

Content Catnip

I hope you enjoy this magic carpet ride into the apricot sunset of your impossible dreams…

A mysterious and erudite scribe named Thoth

Thoth is the ancient Egyptian god of the moon. He also represented reckoning, learning and writing. He was held to be the inventor of writing, the creator of languages, the scribe and adviser of the gods. Via Twitter

A mysterious and erudite scribe named Thoth
A mysterious and erudite scribe named Thoth

Lawyer masquerades as a cat in ‘Zoom’ court hearing

Dining at the Swagman Hotel in Ferntree Gully in the 80’s

A bit of 80’s Australian nostalgia in the form of a lost postcard. These ‘all you can eat’ family restaurants were really big in the 80’s and myself and my siblings always went a bit overboard in these kinds of places. At the time, I never noticed the overly chirpy, kitsch, hairsprayed, faux-historical themed extravaganza that went along with it, but here…

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Vayetzei, and Distinguishing

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

     This week’s Torah portion is Parashat Vayetzei (And He Went Out).  Jacob went out of his home land fleeing the result of someone not distinguishing between truth and lie, and he is himself, in this week’s full portion, held to the consequences of his own lack of distinction.  Caught in between are the two women who had to be the objects of that lie, and their children.  All involved suffer due to the lack of distinguishing between truth and lie, and that is the tragedy.  Can we learn from this set of suffering, and how can we build tools to help ourselves correctly distinguish between fact and fiction?

  Education for all children and adults, and the empathy which must be used even, or especially, with logical reasoning, is an important start.  

   What would you do, and how would you solve this thorny problem of protecting…

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