2.06.2013
nd 'It is a duty to NOT Dignify a malevolent, or brainless question with a response.' Loving
nd 'It is a duty to NOT Dignify a malevolent, or brainless question with a response.' Loving
Sally Jewell is environmentalist, business exec. USA TODAY
| USA TODAY | - |
President
Obama set to tap CEO of outdoor gear and clothing retailer as Interior
Secretary nominee. sallyjewell. Recreational Equipment Inc. (REI) CEO
Sally Jewell at the outdoor gear retailer's Seattle flagship store.
***** Memo to President Obama: Bypass Netanyahu - reach Israelis' hearts. Haaretz
| Haaretz (blog) | - |
A
large proportion of Israelis are more similar to the liberal Jews who
informed Obama's formative years than to Benjamin Netanyahu.
Altert Schweitzer: "Example is NOT the major thing in influencing people. It is the only thing."
Altert Schweitzer: "Example is NOT the major thing in influencing people. It is the only thing."
nd William Lloyd Garrison: "I have need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt."
nd William Lloyd Garrison: "I have need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt."
nd 'Selfish - Of the Self; NOT of the Other(s).' Loving
nd 'Selfish - Of the Self; NOT of the Other(s).' Loving
nd 'Fleshly spirit 'knows,' I am ME! Loving Spirit Knows, I am a Joyfully Dutiful Cell, of the Body of ALL of Creation.' Loving
nd 'Fleshly spirit 'knows,' I am ME! Loving Spirit Knows, I am a Joyfully Dutiful Cell, of the Body of ALL of Creation.' Loving
2.05.2013
We find something 'believable' in inverse proportion to what believing it would cost us. Anonymous
We (our Fleshly Spirit) find something 'believable' in inverse proportion to what believing it would cost us. Anonymous
2.04.2013
nd "God desires good for all. If you wish for goodness for all as well, then God lives in you." Leo Tolstoy
nd "God desires good for all. If you wish for goodness for all as well, then God lives in you." Leo Tolstoy
Israel arrests Hamas activists, lawmakers in West Bank. Haaretz
| Haaretz | - |
Ramallah
based human rights group says Israeli arrest campaign intends to
undermine Palestinian reconciliation efforts between Hamas and President
Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party.
Obamas climate team appears primed for action. Politico
| Politico | - |
By DARREN GOODE | 2/3/13 11:02 PM EST Updated: 2/4/13 10:33 AM EST. Who will help President Barack Obama meet his ambitious promises to tackle climate change?
2.03.2013
***** nd 'Hypocrite - 'One acting a part, cultural role (r, c, lft).' From the Greek. 99.999999% of us all. 'True Being,' is the alternative.' Loving informed by Tolstoy.
***** nd 'Hypocrite - 'One acting a part, cultural role (r, c, lft).' From the Greek. 99.999999% of us all. 'True Being,' is the alternative.' Loving informed by Tolstoy.
'The Scribe, the Pharisee, the Priest... asked themselves, 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me. The Good Samaritan asked himself a different question, 'If I do NOT stop to help this man, what will happen to Him.' MLK Jr. (MORE)
TOTALLY UNREASONABLE what the Good Samaritan did on that dangerous road, but presumably, it was the stuff of Life, to the wounded man on the side of the road. THE WAY YOU SWOOPED IN LIKE A BANSHEE, WHEN YOUR DEAREST FRIEND WAS IN DIRE NEED, WAS UNREASONABLE, by all measures. NO ONE ELSE LIFTED
A FINGER. But your unreasonableness Saved them; possibly
their very life. SHOULD YOU HAVE DONE WHAT YOU DID!!?!?! Well, who
knows. But you DID, and it was Life Giving, Saving, to them, of all that they are, and all that they could be.
That's a fact.
"We are not dying from lack of Love. We are dying from the presence of Tribal Love(love that has limits - one level foer Immediate Family, the few that are DEAREST to us, and a different level for others, no matter how kind it may seem). Ashley Montagu quote.
"We are not dying from lack of Love. We are dying from the presence of Tribal Love (love that has limits - one level foer Immediate Family, the few that are DEAREST to us, and a
different level for others, no matter how kind it may seem). Ashley Montagu quote.
"Ecocide's not unleashing because of the Good we do; but the Good we don't do - the completely unreasonable, personally massively disruptive, costly steps we don't do." Loving (MORE)
"Ecocide's not unleashing because of the Good we do; but the Good we don't do - the completely unreasonable, personally massively disruptive, costly steps we don't do." Loving
"We are not unleashing Ecocide on Humanity because we don't Love. We are unleashing Ecocide on Humanity because we Conditionally Love, we 'Reasonably' Love, we Love except when it is massively, massively, massively... Inconvenient!" Loving. And that will be the epitaph on Earth unless and until an immediate, raging, Painful, Fire of Unreasonable, Unconditional, Massively Inconvenient Loving is unleashed. Now. To This, BEING IT first myself, my every breath is, and will remain devoted. That is for certain. And that at times the few making the mistake of traveling near me will feel Joy, Meaning, Goodness by our interchange, is fairly sure; and that they will feel Searing Pain, Agony, such as you are now feeling, me being the catalyst, also will be certain.
"We are not unleashing Ecocide on Humanity because we don't Love. We are unleashing Ecocide on Humanity because we Conditionally Love, we 'Reasonably' Love, we Love except when it is massively, massively, massively... Inconvenient!" Loving. And that will be the epitaph on Earth unless and until an immediate, raging, Painful, Fire of Unreasonable, Unconditional, Massively Inconvenient Loving is unleashed. Now. To This, BEING IT first myself, my every breath is, and will remain devoted. That is for certain. And that at times the few making the mistake of traveling near me will feel Joy, Meaning, Goodness by our interchange, is fairly sure; and that they will feel Searing Pain, Agony, such as you are now feeling, me being the catalyst, also will be certain.
'We are wise to tightly bound our Hearts, as unleashing them would Destroy our life; tho in saving our 'normal' life, we Destroy our True Life - Loving. (MORE).' Loving
'We are wise to tightly bound our Hearts, as unleashing them would Destroy our life; tho in saving our 'normal' life, we Destroy our True Life - Loving. (MORE).' Loving
From a note to a Good Friend:
From a note to a Good Friend:
* "We are smart to keep sensible limits on our Hearts, because if we
didn't, our lives would be destroyed! But what we don't face in that
is that in keeping sensible limits on our Hearts our Lives (capital L),
our Spirit of Loving, IS DESTROYED, or at best Crippled, and near
all
of us, down very, very, very deep... know that our Spirit of Loving
IS, =, IS our Life! "He who would hold onto his life, will lose it; he
who would lose their life for the neediest, gains their Life." Now, that
Jesus said it proves nothing, anymore than Einstein saying something
proves anything. But they are usually correct, in both cases.
nd 'Christ-likeness, Loving: One of the Two Modes of Life you can select - Selfishness, Lusting, Satan-likeness being the other.' Loving
nd 'Christ-likeness, Loving: One of the Two Modes of Life you can select - Selfishness, Lusting, Satan-likeness being the other.' Loving
nd 'The "Daily Bread:" An every waking moment ration of Helping our Global Neediest Family.' Loving on Jesus Gospel
nd 'The "Daily Bread:" An every waking moment ration of Helping our Global Neediest Family.' Loving on Jesus Gospel
nd 'Christ-like, Christ-ian: Fully Human, Healthy. That's all.' Loving
nd 'Christ-like, Christ-ian: Fully Human, Healthy. That's all.' Loving
Israel's settlement building must stop, says UN. Sydney Morning Herald
| CBS News | - |
GENEVA
Israel became the first nation to skip a U.N. review of its human
rights record without giving a reason - and then won a precedent-setting
deferral Tuesday.
nd Joe Biden on Friendship, "If you have to ask (what someone needs) it is already too late.' according to John Kerry
nd Joe Biden on Friendship, "If you have to ask (what someone needs) it is already too late.' according to John Kerry
2.02.2013
Climate change: The next civil rights battle. Salt Lake Tribune
| Salt Lake Tribune | - |
Climate change a civil rights issue? Why? Because humanity should not be held hostage by a profit-obsessed fossil-fuel cartel.
Energy Secretary Chu steps down, blasts climate-change skeptics. Yahoo
| Yahoo! News (blog) | - |
"The overwhelming scientific consensus is that human activity has had a significant and likely dominant role in climate change," Chu warned in his letter. "There is also increasingly compelling evidence that the weather changes we have witnessed during ...
2.01.2013
1.31.2013
Obama approval up to 60 percent: National poll. MSNBC
| Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) | - |
President Obama's approval ratings, at the launching of his second term, are his highest in more than three years, with 60 percent of Americans having a favorable impression of the 44th president, according to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll.
1.30.2013
01.30.13 Cancer Update
[Note: at great peril to my 'stuff' for the vigil, I am away in a library writing this note, leaving it unattended at a time of heightened police, city concern with another homeless guy in the area who made a nasty scene yesterday. So more than usual, please try to bear with the limitations of my writing, unreading of emails, etc. Hopefully by Friday or Monday I'll have a replacement power brick for my laptop and be more regular in my communication. ARGH. Also, spell check is not working on this machine.]
To those who might feel hurt, wounded by the video below:
* If you are reading this you may be among those that have done great kindnesses for me and my work. Nothing in this video discounts any such kindnesses even .00000000001%.
* It deeply astounds me that I don't understand the following, but I don't. But I DO know it exists, and that at least among one, who has been extraordinarily kind to me over the last 8 months, that it usually the source of major unintended distress, hurt, pain as a result of me.
Objectively, I think it is true, that more than anyone you know, or have ever known, that I appreciate, am grateful for, and passionately acknowledge each and every kindness by anyone, to anyone, in my field of view. I Live for Kindnesses, to spawn them, increase them, give them. It is Life, in my view - Giving Life - and not a nicety, but Life itself. It is entirely what I am about - my Purpose - my reason for being. When I do so, it is quite rare that anyone takes offense, criticizes me, objects, takes exception. And if they seem to take anything I say in this vein personally - I pretty religiously hasten to be clear - I am not complementing you. I am simply making an honest observation. None of us are to take credit for those positive things we may do, or the negative. We are all products of Creation, doing the best we know,' or something to that effect, because I understand this to be True, at my core.
What astounds me, and I feel like a fool for saying it, what astounds me is that when I make observations, also with passion, that one, or others, take as not positive, or rather, negative, they feel unreceptive! That maybe I shouldn't have said it, that I'm being 'judgemental,' unfair, mean, destructive.... Oh, I can cite chapter and verse the common 'wisdom' against saying that which can be construed as negative. But it still mystifies me how folks react. My oncologist told me I had cancer. I didn't take it personally. Now, she did NOT say it with great passion to me; though, if she really cared about me, and felt I was not 'hearing' what she was saying, there could have come a time when she might do so! Some of the most intellectually advanced folks I've encountered in the life I lead of advocacy, totally react in the way I've described, ending what had seemed like life-giving-to-society relationships with "Obviously you didn't mean the positive things you were saying;' or 'I can't understand how you can be so positive one moment, and negative the next.' Huh? I don't get it.
* If anything I am appallingly thorough in my regular communication, taking enormous care to know what I mean, and state it clearly. Including changes. So, if in one communication I say something positive, and in another something negative, IF THEY CANCEL EACH OTHER OUT, I'M GOING TO POINT THAT OUT, AND BE CLEAR ABOUT IT. I'm never lax in such crucial things. And to the distress of the few that haven't yet tuned me out, on issues I feel are crucial to humanity, most of which don't relate to my person, but some that are, such as the vid below, I share my mind, as clearly as I am able.
* The video IS, despite my other comments here to the contrary, in part (an unimportant part; I'm a big boy, I'll survive) an honest outcry of personal pain. Process wise, when someone who generally does not, cries out in pain, thereby potentially empowering others to help, it is VERY Dangerous, and NOT an act of kindness, or Friendship, Caring, to react in a way that punishes, or warns against, or discourages future acts being so personally honest.
* If of the few that have been kind to me, that have not yet tuned me out, of those, if some or all end things now, over the following video, I'm ok with that. Will it be agony for me? Yes. Will it hurt or cripple my work? Probably, to a degree. But what I share in this vid below, yes, what I express seems personal to me. But it isn't. It is an immediate example of why we are not averting Ecocide. I don't matter. Averting Ecocide, does.
Keeping in mind that of course I could be wrong in everything I've expressed here, and in the video, tho I'm not -
The reason we are not averting Ecocide for our kids and the next 200 billion kids, is NOT that we are without Hearts! It IS because we have set boundaries that WE TOTALLY DEEM 'REASONABLE' BOUNDARIES AROUND THOSE HEARTS! We convince ourselves, for all but those very few that are most dear to us, are most "Family,' to us, that it is it OK that we not treat others the same. That 'inconvieniences' that we would RUSH to suffer for our very dearest ones, it is OK to not do so for others! And who to say this is 'wrong,' or more to the point, DEADLY, ECOCIDAL??? Well, Jesus, for one. "Love the stranger, the foreigner, the Enemy - AS YOUR SELF." Does that make it correct, that Jesus said so!?!?!? No. But my Heart says it is, and in the quietest of moments, yours probably does too; at least, that is my guess. And, if it does not - don't walk, RUN from any engagement with me! It can only lead to pain for you. My oncologist is willing to offer me pain, sickness, discomfort, maybe agony even, but not as the end point, but as the gateway to Life! Me too.
If you have NOT viewed the following video, I highly recommend it to those who care more about where humanity is headed, than their own lives. To those who have seen it, or who are more squeamish, you may wish to skip to the final text below it.
vlog Relief! Death by Cancer it is! DEPRESSION GONE! AMEN!
01.30.13 Cancer Update: In the video above I mentioned that there was one last option I could see as maybe offering a prayer of 'housing' that would satisfy the hospitals liability requirements and, through massive contortions of my work needs, suffice to meet enough of my 200 billion kids needs, to allow the chemo to proceed. Well, barring what could be two show stoppers, but probably will be surmounted (Internet access, PHYSICALLY, my signal not reaching this room; and the prohibition of 2-3 'mental health' days for me to go to the library each week when not in treatment or recovering therefrom), it looks like this is a 'go.' To my credit, I explored it despite indications that it was a dead end - and, it may be a doorway, instead. Howard U Hosp and my oncologist have kindly re-established forward momentum for me to receive the tests and treatment. I will be firing off an email before returning to my stuff to A. Ascertain the 2 points I just mentioned as possible show-stoppers; and B. as my oncologist to please, take the most aggressive possible course of treatment. If I'm going to drain the resources away from our kids for this treatment, my time, and our money, I want to get this stuff, this cancer, NOW.
Sakihiwew. Loving.
To those who might feel hurt, wounded by the video below:
* If you are reading this you may be among those that have done great kindnesses for me and my work. Nothing in this video discounts any such kindnesses even .00000000001%.
* It deeply astounds me that I don't understand the following, but I don't. But I DO know it exists, and that at least among one, who has been extraordinarily kind to me over the last 8 months, that it usually the source of major unintended distress, hurt, pain as a result of me.
Objectively, I think it is true, that more than anyone you know, or have ever known, that I appreciate, am grateful for, and passionately acknowledge each and every kindness by anyone, to anyone, in my field of view. I Live for Kindnesses, to spawn them, increase them, give them. It is Life, in my view - Giving Life - and not a nicety, but Life itself. It is entirely what I am about - my Purpose - my reason for being. When I do so, it is quite rare that anyone takes offense, criticizes me, objects, takes exception. And if they seem to take anything I say in this vein personally - I pretty religiously hasten to be clear - I am not complementing you. I am simply making an honest observation. None of us are to take credit for those positive things we may do, or the negative. We are all products of Creation, doing the best we know,' or something to that effect, because I understand this to be True, at my core.
What astounds me, and I feel like a fool for saying it, what astounds me is that when I make observations, also with passion, that one, or others, take as not positive, or rather, negative, they feel unreceptive! That maybe I shouldn't have said it, that I'm being 'judgemental,' unfair, mean, destructive.... Oh, I can cite chapter and verse the common 'wisdom' against saying that which can be construed as negative. But it still mystifies me how folks react. My oncologist told me I had cancer. I didn't take it personally. Now, she did NOT say it with great passion to me; though, if she really cared about me, and felt I was not 'hearing' what she was saying, there could have come a time when she might do so! Some of the most intellectually advanced folks I've encountered in the life I lead of advocacy, totally react in the way I've described, ending what had seemed like life-giving-to-society relationships with "Obviously you didn't mean the positive things you were saying;' or 'I can't understand how you can be so positive one moment, and negative the next.' Huh? I don't get it.
* If anything I am appallingly thorough in my regular communication, taking enormous care to know what I mean, and state it clearly. Including changes. So, if in one communication I say something positive, and in another something negative, IF THEY CANCEL EACH OTHER OUT, I'M GOING TO POINT THAT OUT, AND BE CLEAR ABOUT IT. I'm never lax in such crucial things. And to the distress of the few that haven't yet tuned me out, on issues I feel are crucial to humanity, most of which don't relate to my person, but some that are, such as the vid below, I share my mind, as clearly as I am able.
* The video IS, despite my other comments here to the contrary, in part (an unimportant part; I'm a big boy, I'll survive) an honest outcry of personal pain. Process wise, when someone who generally does not, cries out in pain, thereby potentially empowering others to help, it is VERY Dangerous, and NOT an act of kindness, or Friendship, Caring, to react in a way that punishes, or warns against, or discourages future acts being so personally honest.
* If of the few that have been kind to me, that have not yet tuned me out, of those, if some or all end things now, over the following video, I'm ok with that. Will it be agony for me? Yes. Will it hurt or cripple my work? Probably, to a degree. But what I share in this vid below, yes, what I express seems personal to me. But it isn't. It is an immediate example of why we are not averting Ecocide. I don't matter. Averting Ecocide, does.
Keeping in mind that of course I could be wrong in everything I've expressed here, and in the video, tho I'm not -
The reason we are not averting Ecocide for our kids and the next 200 billion kids, is NOT that we are without Hearts! It IS because we have set boundaries that WE TOTALLY DEEM 'REASONABLE' BOUNDARIES AROUND THOSE HEARTS! We convince ourselves, for all but those very few that are most dear to us, are most "Family,' to us, that it is it OK that we not treat others the same. That 'inconvieniences' that we would RUSH to suffer for our very dearest ones, it is OK to not do so for others! And who to say this is 'wrong,' or more to the point, DEADLY, ECOCIDAL??? Well, Jesus, for one. "Love the stranger, the foreigner, the Enemy - AS YOUR SELF." Does that make it correct, that Jesus said so!?!?!? No. But my Heart says it is, and in the quietest of moments, yours probably does too; at least, that is my guess. And, if it does not - don't walk, RUN from any engagement with me! It can only lead to pain for you. My oncologist is willing to offer me pain, sickness, discomfort, maybe agony even, but not as the end point, but as the gateway to Life! Me too.
If you have NOT viewed the following video, I highly recommend it to those who care more about where humanity is headed, than their own lives. To those who have seen it, or who are more squeamish, you may wish to skip to the final text below it.
vlog Relief! Death by Cancer it is! DEPRESSION GONE! AMEN!
01.30.13 Cancer Update: In the video above I mentioned that there was one last option I could see as maybe offering a prayer of 'housing' that would satisfy the hospitals liability requirements and, through massive contortions of my work needs, suffice to meet enough of my 200 billion kids needs, to allow the chemo to proceed. Well, barring what could be two show stoppers, but probably will be surmounted (Internet access, PHYSICALLY, my signal not reaching this room; and the prohibition of 2-3 'mental health' days for me to go to the library each week when not in treatment or recovering therefrom), it looks like this is a 'go.' To my credit, I explored it despite indications that it was a dead end - and, it may be a doorway, instead. Howard U Hosp and my oncologist have kindly re-established forward momentum for me to receive the tests and treatment. I will be firing off an email before returning to my stuff to A. Ascertain the 2 points I just mentioned as possible show-stoppers; and B. as my oncologist to please, take the most aggressive possible course of treatment. If I'm going to drain the resources away from our kids for this treatment, my time, and our money, I want to get this stuff, this cancer, NOW.
Sakihiwew. Loving.
1.29.2013
Cancer update. I may be getting chemo beginning Mid Feb. Batt low. More tomorrow or Fri.
A local homeless shelter infirmary may allow me to work on computer during the day, and a few days a week at the library. My work could live with that. I lost my computer power cord, argh, so offline till replacement comes by weeks end?
vlog Relief! Death by Cancer it is! DEPRESSION GONE! AMEN!
***** Have Lost my Laptop Power Supply - Will be off line Till a Replacement arrives.
***** Have Lost my Laptop Power Supply - Will be off line Till a Replacement arrives.
Not sure how or why, but can't find the power supply. I'll probably have a replacement by week's end. Hopefully. Argh.
Not sure how or why, but can't find the power supply. I'll probably have a replacement by week's end. Hopefully. Argh.
1.28.2013
1.27.2013
MLK Jr. "Lust says - What will happen to me if I help? Love says - What will happen to Her, if I don't?' Loving paraphrase of MLK Jr. "Drum Major Instinct," I think. With liberties taken.
MLK Jr. "Lust says - What will happen to me if I help? Love says - What will happen to Her, if I don't?' Loving paraphrase of MLK Jr. "Drum Major Instinct," I think. With liberties taken.
One of his last. One of his greatest. He was speaking of the parable of, and of the people within, the Good Samaritan.
One of his last. One of his greatest. He was speaking of the parable of, and of the people within, the Good Samaritan.
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