A song for those rejecting the tyranny.
A Message To The Unvaccinated
A nice validation of those who were able to withstand the coercion.
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Patti Smith on the biggest misconception about her…
“The thing that bothered me the most was when I had to return to the public eye in ’95 or ’96 when my husband died. We lived a very simple lifestyle in a more reclusive way in which he was king of our domain. I don’t drive, I didn’t have much of an income, and without him, I had to find a way of making a living.
Besides working in a bookstore, the only thing I knew how to do was to make records—or to write poetry, which isn’t going to help put your kids through school.
But when I started doing interviews, people kept saying “Well, you didn’t do anything in the 80s,” and I just want to get Elvis Presley’s gun out and shoot the television out of their soul. How could you say that? The conceit of people, to think that if they’re not reading about you in a newspaper or magazine, then you’re not doing anything.
I’m not a celebrity, I’m a worker. I’ve always worked. I was working before people read anything about me, and the day they stopped reading about me, I was doing even more work.
And the idea that if you’re a mother, you’re not doing anything—it’s the hardest job there is, being a mother or father requires great sacrifice, discipline, selflessness, and to think that we weren’t doing anything while we were raising a son or daughter is appalling.
It makes me understand why some human beings question their worth if they’re not making a huge amount of money or aren’t famous, and that’s not right.
My mother worked at a soda fountain. She made the food and was a waitress and she was a really hard worker and a devoted worker. And her potato salad became famous! She wouldn’t get potato salad from the deli, she would get up at five o’clock in the morning and make it herself, and people would come from Camden or Philly to this little soda fountain in South Jersey because she had famous potato salad.
She was proud of that, and when she would come home at night, completely wiped out and throwing her tip money on the table and counting it, one of her great prides was that people would come from far and wide for her potato salad.
People would say, “Well, what did your mother do? She was a waitress?” She served the people, and she served in the way that she knew best.”
Via Alan Light interview in Medium
Thanks Thatericalpter.com
Photo by Frank Stefanko
Responsibility and discipline trump motivation
Trainee: What should I do when I’m not motivated to work out?
Personal trainer: What happens when your dog isn’t motivated to go for a walk?
Trainee: It doesn’t matter–we go for a walk.
Personal trainer: That’s good.
Them: Touche.
Giorgia Meloni
The Meaning Of Net Zero
It is a euphemism for population reduction. To “save the planet”.
I’ll tell you how to save the planet without killing 95% of the population – stop activities that destroy it! Like polluting the waterways, letting a plastic island build up in the middle of the pacific, clear felling old growth forests, not composting for soil regeneration but relying on artificial fertilizers and not regreening arid lands. I have seen videos that address these issues. The technology is available. We just need to focus on doing the things that work, not those that appear profitable in the short term but are long-term destructive.
Don’t buy into destructive solutions, no matter how creatively misnamed. Look beyond the labels to see the product created. Look instead for constructive solutions.
Your Only Limit
And since, more correctly, you do not HAVE a soul you ARE a soul, and an immortal, indestructible soul is only limited by one’s considerations and one has the ability to change one’s mind, that makes one pretty limitless!
An Open Air Class
Intelligent Disobedience
Freeing Whale
Imagine a sacred experience that could heal your broken places.
I’m not sure what kind of whale this is:
A fisherman spotted her just east of the Farallon Islands (outside the Golden Gate) and radioed for help. Within a few hours, the rescue team arrived and determined that she was so badly off, the only way to save her was to dive in and untangle her… a very dangerous proposition. One slap of the tail could kill a rescuer.
They worked for hours with curved knives and eventually freed her. When she was free, the divers say she swam in what seemed like joyous circles. She then came back to each and every diver, one at a time, nudged them, and pushed gently, thanking them. Some said it was the most incredibly beautiful experience of their lives.
The guy who cut the rope out of her mouth says her eye was following him the whole time, and he will never be the same. May you be so fortunate to be surrounded by people who will help you get untangled from the things that are binding you.
May you always know the joy of giving and receiving gratitude.