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- December 16th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
Solstice soon (Hexagram 24, RETURN)
Light is deft, knowing allour routesof escapeinto darknessdeeper than death. Winterrecalls our turn within;Spring remainsas dawnreminding usthat Lightinsists onlifebeing bornanewfromsleepand scattered…
- December 9th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Overheard, read, and made immediate sense of!
Overheard, years ago ... and recorded in my journal:"I'm not in love with you. I am, in love, with you."(OK, OK ... it wasn't overheard. It was how a particularly sweet, scholarly and ultimately dipsh…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
What\'s the Bible in 15 words?
I just found a most fascinating meme at Eileen's Episcopalfem blog. The invitation is to describe the Bible in five statements that total 15 words:1st statement: one word.2nd statement: two words.3rd…
- December 3rd, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
Healing happens ... (Hexagram 18, REPAIRING WOUNDS)
One day several years ago, I was driving along and a thought-banner wove through my mind; it said, Everything is healing all the time.OK, my body said, and sighed deeply into the light that streamed a…
- December 2nd, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
Wise and beautiful rage ...
... fires through this essay by Adrian Worsfold, via the Episcopal Café.Somehow the heart is dying inside Christianity, Adrian writes, so that it becomes a pointless husk, where some of its core mess…
- December 1st, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
"Light made from nothing" ... The feeling of "living" a hexagram
Living a hexagram ... What could this mean?I'm in retreat; have barely been online. A few weeks ago, there was a major crisis in my home (Hexagram 28) ... Danger certainly abounded, and great courage…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
I love how this man thinks!
Our culture is phobic about helplessness. Helplessness is bad, associated with being a victim, getting poor health care, being poor in general, and being subject to disasters one could protect against…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
Climate change in your neighbourhood ... ?
It's December 1st ... and a big, blue bottlefly was buzzing around my balcony this morning. The grass is naked and ... green ... The wind's out of the southwest and the sky looks July-ish -- big, fluf…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
- November 23rd, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
I have been a blob where this blog is concerned ...
... but today I've had a scathingly brilliant idea. I want to offer an I Ching divination to the first person who can correctly identify the source of this quote:I breathed in an autumn bouquet that c…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
At the moment ... Haiku
I am still, with mydemons -- they're not riding me;I'm not riding themTruce: no one's at war;we're not quite at peace, so weexchange arms for ales,becoming sottedand sated, regurging oldrumours for ne…
- November 18th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Excellent reframing of a perennial glitch in thought.
I've just found this article by Sandra Tsing Loh, who writes for The Atlantic. It's a fascinating look at what, by some, is considered being a "bad mother." For the author's awareness, agony, and anec…
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She\'s baaack! #2
Oh, Sarah ... Sarah Palin. I can't stop reading about you. I won't be reading your book, but I'm gobbling up the thoughts of writers like Richard Cohen and Tina Brown, who ponder your value as a celeb…
- November 15th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
This is atrocious.
I've just read this article at Andrew Sullivan's site. A certain VA officer claims that if vets had more religion, they'd have less PTSD.For all the so-called honours that are heaped on soldiers after…
- November 13th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
For my husband ... just because xo
The bottom photo is of my beloved with Vida, one of our cats ... She turns to mush in his arms ... as I do too.The top three images are from a small dose of life.Please visit my husband's blog, catalo…
- November 7th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
Of war and elephants*
Modern warfare is not natural; our bellicose human habits violate long-evolved prosocial norms shared by animals everywhere, including the mighty, brainy elephant. Elephant society only fell victim to…
- November 4th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Insomnia: relentlessly awake; becoming aware; writing it through ...
Every day lived in yoke to a habit is an opportunity to unravel one more knot in its becoming. Tonight, while my beloved watched a movie, I lay in bed with the cats and read. At about 10:40, he began…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
The November decline ... Hexagram 41, DIMINISHMENT
I'll tell you what love of this life is.It's looking upthrough trees newly bare of leavesand seeing there the oldest road,a broken line of white starsstretching out across the sky.It's thinking,this c…
- October 30th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Not much to say lately ... but I do have a ...
Thanks to the lovely small dose of life for this wee gift ...
- October 29th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
I weep ...
... and I suspect that the president did, too, when he returned to the White House after today's pre-dawn ceremony to receive and honour 18 soldiers who were recently killed in Afghanistan ...More her…
- October 25th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
I don\'t know whether to laugh or cry in the long run ...
... but right now, I'm losing it like a kid who's farted in church. That photo makes me explode. (With laughter!)What you see is a motorized La-Z-Boy chair. Its owner, adaptor and operator was recent…
- October 24th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
A book for one of the I Ching\'s core principles, KINDNESS (aka Benevolence)
Kindness is as intrinsic to our nature as generosity is to our Earth ... and I'm definitely going to read a book that tells me that kindness is "potentially far more promiscuous than sexuality." Marcu…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
"In every experience of true listening ...
... there is a mysterious moment in which the one who listens steps out from a fortress of self-concern and dwells silently in the truth of the one who speaks. This is a moment of great risk and great…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
- October 22nd, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Can empathy make us ill?
Such a strange question to ask ... but a memory brought it on ...... I'm five or six years old, walking along a roadway beside an adult -- someone I know (whom the adult me can't recall right now...).…
- October 20th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
An offbeat possibility for Hexagram 51, SHOCK
Art is not cosy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended.Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince... Is this light ... lightnin…
- October 19th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
There are days ...
... like today, when I come to from a deep, dream-wild daytime sleep and blearily wonder if I'm dying, convalescing, or slooowly wilting in some biochemical bog ...Then I rouse myself beyond the brown…
- October 17th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
Jaliya down the rabbit hole.
I woke up this morning in the wake of an epic dream about Barack Obama. Dammit, I can't recall details, except that I was chasing after my friends, all of whom had met him. He was everywhere -- on a l…
- October 15th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Things come together ...
I love how synchronicity happens. Lately, I've been thinking about my almost nullified appetite. Food? -- meh! Couldn't care less. I need an appetite activation.Today, I met with a psychiatrist for a…
- October 14th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Going through a rough patch.
About all I can manage right now in blogging is to offer some quotations and notes that I've scrawled here and there. My focus has been crap lately, so I keep returning to these little icons of empath…
- October 11th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Wow.
The one thing a clenched fist can't do is to accept the helping hand.~Frederick Buechner~ "Boxing grannies" at http://www.gogo-gadgets.co.uk
- October 10th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Can't get enough Springsteen ...
Lately I've been listening chronically to Bruce Springsteen's music -- especially his more subdued ballads. His album, The Rising, has become a perennial favourite. He released The Rising in 2002, in…
- October 9th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
My two cents about the Nobel Peace Prize
My first thought upon reading the news of Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win was, "For the man he chooses to be, he deserves it." For what he's accomplished ... I think he's done what he can so far.…
- October 8th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
Hexagram 37 -- INTIMATE BONDS
To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumbcreatures in the world’s full reserve, the unsayable sums,joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count.(Rainer Maria Rilke, “Sonnets to Orpheu…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
A semi-snarky affirmation for depression ...
When it's pissing rain inside and out, remember that rainbows also exist!
- October 6th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
I\'m having an utterly useless day.
I just captioned this photo over at cheezburger. I'm so proud of myself.So there it is; I've shot some farty humour into cyberspace. That's about the extent of my day so far.Depression sucks.... Love…
- October 5th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
Autumn poem (What a way to go...)
SOME FUNCTIONS OF A LEAFTo whisper. To applaud the windand hide the Hermit thrush.To catch the lightand work the humble spell of photosynthesis(excuse me, sir, if I might have one word)by which it’s…
- October 3rd, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Fun for Introverts!
I got giddy tonight in the wake of yesterday's conversational marathon with my friend QP, a zany, gentle sage whose charm and elegant sass make me think of Eloise ... ... all grown up. QP moved up to…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Further to "God talk" ...
... I just found this quotation:I’m not seeking anything. I’m done. There’s nothing more to be sought. And yet ...there is this ongoing process of clarification, or embodiment, or deepening ...~…
- October 2nd, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
God-talk
Today I found an old notebook in which I'd written:"Don't tell" ...... If we can't communicate with another human being -- if we're told not to -- to whom or what will we turn?Among others, and in cou…
- September 30th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
Thanks, dear Moey ...
... for the giddy, goofy and restorative weekend we shared with you and Joni at your wee sanctuary in the forest ...The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, w…
- September 23rd, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: Pushing fifty...gently...if I can find my glasses.
Food for thought: maturity
Maturity has less to do with getting older and more to do with how we transform our experiences into stories we can bear to carry forward. ~Heather Birrell ~Digital art: "Maturity", by Rick Hocker.
- September 22nd, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
In the deeps (Hexagram 29)
Questions that tap into our mortality, our pain, our selfishness, our basic needs, questions that arise from the immeasurable darkness, light, or mystery of our lives, require more than Answerization.…
- September 21st, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
"A failure of will" ... ?
One of humanity's oldest stigmas about depression is that the condition is a failure of the will. Buck up, the stigma barks, and we push on or collapse.What if depression is a failure, though, in the…
- September 18th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
Then and now in the realm of dreams
"Alma en el estudio", by Golucho.During the first decade after I moved out of my parents' home, I had recurring dreams of being in houses we'd lived in. Standing in the corners of many rooms were miss…
- September 17th, 2009
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: The Quoteable I Ching
The essence of Hexagram 32, ENDURANCE
I do.I do ... one of the most potent word pairings in any language. The marital vow that declares a bond, a choice, a commitment.Beyond the familiar context of a wedding, the words "I do" underscore a…
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Jaliya has posted a new entry on: A post-cynical seer
I have the attention span of half a gnat today ...
"Poof", by Josh Billings... so I'm just going to open my "What makes me happy?" book and offer some jottings from 1990 to now about what I'm grateful for.I have about 40 blog posts that are in various…
