This is The Thing

I’m about to embark on a new experiment — an exploration into something I’ve always dreamed of, but never dared. On Tuesday, Carruch gave the members of our weekly spiritual upliftment class (Doing the Do) an assignment.  First, he asked each of us what system or situation in the world bugged us the most — [...]

One of the things that I’m fascinated with is the concept of “memes”. Like a gene in a DNA sequence, memes are things that become embedded and shape the motion and attitudes of a culture. (For fascinating reading about some of the memes that shape our particular culture, check out Daniel Quinn’s wonderful “Beyond Civilization”.) [...]

It’s been a long, rather lazy Sunday, after a week that seemed very full. For the past two days, I have had the sense of being infused with a case of the lethargic jitters. On the one hand, I feel lazy, thick-headed, slow, and fatigued — on the other hand, I have a sense of [...]

My beloved and I are back to our “Daily Creative Bit” emails. This was yesterday’s poem, which emerged after a night of long dreaming: Apocalyptic Dream My dreams dragged along with me today at first, then appeared and disappeared, appeared, and disappeared, tagging my consciousness and whispering urgently: “You’re It!” I remember sitting in a [...]

In the “olden days”, you didn’t actually have to hang around me very long to discover this. In recent years, you might have to hang around for a least a month or three to figure it out — maybe longer if our contact is sporadic — although the tell-tale hints and clues might be apparent [...]

I had two interesting responses to my posts on Williams Syndrome and Who’s Crazy Now? Part One. What was interesting to me about these responses is that both of them came from people who had actually had up-close and personal interactions with people who are classified as “autistic”. One, the mother of a son diagnosed [...]

I honestly thought that I would just write some post about “mental illness” — but when I went back and read my own past posts on the subject (just click the category “Divine Madness” in Categories — to the right, and check out the posts that come up — preferably, in chronological order), I discovered [...]

I read a fascinating article today about “William’s Syndrome“, a genetic developmental “disability” (I prefer the term — different ability) that creates: “some fairly conventional cognitive deficits, like trouble with space and numbers, but also a strange set of traits that researchers call the Williams social phenotype or, less formally, the “Williams personality”: a love [...]

(I missed posting yesterday, but I have a fine excuse. It was Fourth of July, my “Saturday”, and I was visiting with my beloved’s parents. Honestly, I stumbled off to bed without even thinking of posting. Mea Culpa. OK — apologies out of the way — I’ll get on with it.) I love synchronicities. You’re [...]

I almost titled this post after one of my favorite “funny” quotes: “Someday, we’ll all look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject.” I think this line is funny because it represents an actual, and common, experience — I would even go so far to say that it may be a definitive mantra [...]