Comment on What are You Afraid of? by mm
I think it’s not success itself, so much, it’s that success can make you rest on your laurels, and preen with “success” so much so when the next ‘tiger’ comes, you are all softened up and ready to be...
View ArticleComment on What are You Afraid of? by Touch2Touch
My goodness, Mercy, what a sobering thought! And yet, when I think about it, it certainly is true that many people can be blind-sided that way by success.
View ArticleComment on What are You Afraid of? by mm
Yeah, look at poor Charlie Sheen – who couldn’t handle ‘it’?? which is why I suppose in India the Gita praises “One who is unattached to the fruits of his work “; would be difficult to practise in the...
View ArticleComment on What are You Afraid of? by Touch2Touch
T.S. Eliot in the Four Quartets has Krishna say to Arjuna, “And do not think of the fruit of action. Fare forward.” Do it for its own sake — I always loved that long passage in the poem, and I knew...
View ArticleComment on Wishful Thinking! by Arsen Darnay
Lovely, indeed as one of ours said in childhood, a loverly poem…
View ArticleComment on Three Greek Chicks sitting around talking… by...
Thank you for the quick lesson and enoyable reading you have delivered to us through this Greek Mythology story! That is one subject I always find interesting to read more about!
View ArticleComment on Three Greek Chicks sitting around talking… by Touch2Touch
Thanks, Tara. Three strong ladies for Women’s Day!
View ArticleComment on Don’t Just Do Something— by Monique D. Magee
Great story! Thanks. And, I must add… feeling groovy, dah dah dah dah dah dah, feeling groovey. Cheers.
View ArticleComment on The “Budinoffs” of the Berkshires by Stef
“The Lee Trio and the Lenox Quartet” – I adore how you described these beautiful people that make up the entities of “library” and “post office”. After all, a thing is just a thing – it’s the people...
View ArticleComment on The “Budinoffs” of the Berkshires by Touch2Touch
That’s a good thing, too. Humanism is not dead!
View ArticleComment on Even the Heavens Wept — by Touch2Touch
Arrogance and pride, built-in human traits, I think.
View ArticleComment on Even the Heavens Wept — by Therese Bertsch
I weep for the people of Japan and pray that the Lord of love companions them in their heartache. This post was quite beautiful and a help in trying to comprehend how to live out in normal time with...
View ArticleComment on Even the Heavens Wept — by Touch2Touch
It hurts sometimes to be fully human. I know that you know this, and what’s more, live it.
View ArticleComment on Even the Heavens Wept — by pauline
Humans are such an amalgam of beliefs and failings and accomplishments – perhaps our refusal to see or acknowledge that we are all connected is fear that if we do, there won’t be enough (of whatever is...
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Comment on Even the Heavens Wept — by pauline
And (getting off my soapbox) the video and accompanying poem were beautiful, Judith, little interludes to lift the soul. After reading your description of Shinto, I read “people” in that poem to mean...
View ArticleComment on Even the Heavens Wept — by Touch2Touch
That would certainly be a Shinto interpretation, at least in my understanding of it. As you write, “Those of us who believe we are interconnected will act in accordance, reaching out to help those who...
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