I have always been intrigued by the history of empires as well as the history of ancient civilizations that have been forgotten or barely studied. If we read these histories, we begin to see a pattern of civilizations that were very advanced even to the point of using ancient high tech. Of course, it is
by Wendell Berry When despair for the word grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be. I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I
As we move from day to day fixated on the man-made world and our house payments, inflation, tariffs, loneliness and fear, we forget our connection to the Sacred, Eternal and Divine. We forget that all of this stuff is stuff. We forget that our time here is a culmination of decisions we made or didn’t
We are being consumed by threats to democracy, deportations, tariffs, conspiracy theories, Ukraine, Gaza, price of tomatoes and government layoffs, corruption, abuses of power and on and on and on. We think we are stuck in a downward spiral run off of relevancy by AI and drowning in social media. But, hark, a light shines
I have headline fatigue. Every day is another urgency or scare. What will happen due to the chaotic tariff situation? Immigrants locked up in more detention camps, price creep on food and services, doctors dropping out of Medicare, podcast crazies, crude, rude and vulgar behavior, flooding in Texas, heat wave, fires and droughts. Sounds like
I keep striving in my mind to keep America’s greater plan in place. Today I was in a car search near my same busy route home from shopping. They are grabbing people out of cars or walking in a parking lot. When you hear that they (ICE) and Border Security are capturing criminals, think twice.
“The highest source of national direction comes not from man’s outer government but from an over-shadowing invisible Hierarchy composed of an exalted Brotherhood that has elected to render world service entirely from the higher levels of the inner planes. Under the jurisdiction of such an illumined body occurred the founding and the early direction of
Robert Francis Prevost, also known as Bob, was born on September 14th, 1955. He has an excellent chart for the career choice in this lifetime. I am not a practicing Catholic but when someone has a blueprint like his, it is a cause for celebration. He is really a decent human being who has a
In my zoom programs and earlier posts I have written about these “days of turmoil”. It is easier to write about them than to live them. However, live them we must. What we are experiencing is the slamming together of the big 80 years institutional cycle and the social and cultural 50 years cycle. It
AMERICA’S HISTORY OF INTOLERANCE A prominent American once said, about immigrants, “Few of their children in the country learn English…..The signs in our streets have inscriptions in both languages…Unless the stream of their importation could be turned they will soon so outnumber us that all the advantages we have will not be able to preserve
