● Re(s)olutions
Scene from the pilgrimage: Jizo-do protect departed children and travelers in Japan.
H
ow are those resolutions going? Or is it too early late to tell? You do have … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Category: It Gets Better
● Messengers of Love
Scene from the pilgrimage: Many forms of human expression.
The “dwellers” at Unpen-ji, temple 66, on Shikoku, Japan. I wrote about them during my pilgrimage there. Read about them … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Connections
I
f you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● All Kinds of Courage
C
ourage comes in different packages and speaks different languages. There is a courage called defiance, and there is a courage called perseverance. There is a courage that shouts … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● History of the World
W
here all human connections are distrusted, the human being is very quickly lost.
“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Changed
Peace Bell in Hiroshima, Japan
Consider this question: How are you living, feeling, and growing five months and nineteen days into 2025?
Lost? Scared? Hopeful?
Changed?
Don’t know? Well, you … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Keeping Score
Deep down we know that life is short. Live your life today. Be bold. Don’t spend so much time suffering. Be courageous. Be scared to death. Then take the … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Only As Good
A country is only as good… only as strong as the people who make it up and the country turns into what the people want it to become… I … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
● Be The Truth
Anticipating the end of the world is humanity’s oldest pastime.
– David Mitchel, Cloud Atlas
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♥️ Shirley J
Source image: red rose, Aryan paswan CC-SA3.0
● Somebody’s Watching
Never be satisfied with the way things are now.
Think that over and in the meantime, let’s eat.
It’s National Pi Day!
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● Harriet Tubman
Moses of her people.
Many children learned that Mrs Harriet Ross Tubman led American slaves to freedom. Unfortunately, a lot of us only learned that one line.
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● Standing for Something
The Mother and Child statue depicts a mother holding a baby in her right arm while trying to carry a toddler on her back with her left hand, symbolizing … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞