I was in Safeway last Sunday, buying rhubarb. The stems were meaty and a little bit limp, and they were the colour of flesh. One stalk had five little shoots emerging from its end, which had been snipped off, so that it they looked like five fingers on a tiny hand. A tiny hand [...]
That’s the title of a PhD dissertation by Elaine Aaron. Here’s what she says:
Archetypes, as Jung said, have dual aspects. The archetype of forceful big is the counterpart, or opposite, of the archetype of delicate small. Once forceful big enters the scene, there is no more space for delicate small. It gets crushed.
This observation alone [...]
I’m writing this on Tuesday morning. I feel in my bones that Obama will win. I don’t think this would be worth a bean if the GOP wanted this election, but I don’t think they do–I think that’s why they allowed the McCain/Palin campaign to represent them–so I don’t think they will rig the vote. [...]
My last day in England is blustery and autumnal. I hike up the lane behind my sister’s house and follow a Public Footpath sign across stubbly fields. The wind roars in a big ash tree and a flock of about a hundred rooks rise flapping and cawing into the air. I find a fragment of [...]
It’s interesting that the manifestation movement became mainstream around the time that the great rug-pull of globalization began to seriously affect the economic stability of millions of Americans.
The prevailing ideology in any culture is one that serves its reigning economic system, concealing the truth of its power relations and its real aims, veiling them with [...]
All the parents of teenaged girls I know in California have daughters in crisis. Several are in treatment for drugs, alcohol, mental health and/or eating disorders. One started cutting. Another has a pending felony charge, related to things she did on meth. These are not the daughters of people struggling against appalling conditions in the [...]
I’m sniffing a new scent on the wind in the US these days. It could be my imagination, but it seems to me there is a real change in the air.
- First of all, there’s the financial bail-out, and the widespread disgust at the greed and the arrogance of the people involved. The 400,000 dollar [...]
In another post I wrote about honesty and common respect for other people’s property. I had the impression that I remembered a time when there was a lot more of that, so I did some homework and discovered a STAGGERING FACT: When I was born, in 1962, there were roughly half as many people on [...]
A friend of mine knows a guy from the Pashtun region of Afghanistan. The guy told my friend that if he wanted to send money home, he would do it by giving cash to someone from the same culture who was traveling back. “What?” asked my friend. “Someone you know, or just anyone?”
“Anyone”, said the [...]
Mike Spino is a running coach who specializes in mind/body integration, teaching athletes woo-woo techniques such as visualization and meditation to improve their performance. Spino says that as athletes approach peak performance, they enter a “state of elegance”. This happens, he says, only a few times in a season.
Spino’ role, as a coach, is to [...]
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