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Archives for March 2020

let’s eradicate covid-19 in consciousness & reality by 2 weeks of shut-down: my journey from skeptic to advocate of close everything

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i have been one of the biggest naysayers around on the pandemic of fear in this covid-19 thing. i have collected the opinions of health experts who point out that people die from various flus for which we do and don’t have vaccines, that we need to … [Read more...] about let’s eradicate covid-19 in consciousness & reality by 2 weeks of shut-down: my journey from skeptic to advocate of close everything

What if this pandemic of fear is only a spiritual fire drill to prepare us to spread love and wellness to all?

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Perhaps the Covid-19 worldwide pandemic of fear is a spiritual fire drill designed to expose the weaknesses in our systems.  Can we sit quietly on the lawn during our fire drill? and where are our hats? Think you cannot fully fund public … [Read more...] about What if this pandemic of fear is only a spiritual fire drill to prepare us to spread love and wellness to all?

(:)(:)(:)(:) for Jesus Christ Superstar original film digitally re-mastered wide-screen – Eerily applicable to our times

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  Tonight I thought I was going to a lightweight sing-a-long movie with friends, instead I was treated to a cinematic tour de force with a story eerily applicable to our time. This 2000 year old story brought to Broadway by Webber and Rice … [Read more...] about (:)(:)(:)(:) for Jesus Christ Superstar original film digitally re-mastered wide-screen – Eerily applicable to our times

Bernie Sanders Won California–What that Means for the State & the Nation

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With the east coast states reporting first and all the Biden hype, the fact of the largest state in the union voting decisively for Bernie Sanders has been glossed over in the news.  So let’s take a moment to celebrate Bernie Sanders winning … [Read more...] about Bernie Sanders Won California–What that Means for the State & the Nation

My Top Tips to Create & Maintain a Meditation Practice with a Family

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I have been meditating daily for about 20 years, which means I must have started when our children were about 3 and 5.  Various tricks have worked for me throughout the years.  This past week, keeping my meditation practice up while caring … [Read more...] about My Top Tips to Create & Maintain a Meditation Practice with a Family

Sacramento’s Katie Valenzuela Shows the Continued Power of Bernie’s Movement

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After ugly crying at the results of the Biden coup last night, it was a tonic to breeze by a row of lawn signs on this perfect Sacramento spring day--all of which trumpeted candidates & issues that I voted for which seem to have prevailed in the … [Read more...] about Sacramento’s Katie Valenzuela Shows the Continued Power of Bernie’s Movement

Reading *Reading Lolita in Tehran* in US 2020

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It’s been on our bookshelf since 2003 when Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran was top of the best-seller lists.  In that time, in the wake of 911, notwithstanding my distress over the George W. Bush administration, it might have meant … [Read more...] about Reading *Reading Lolita in Tehran* in US 2020

VOTERS stand with Bernie at the “Moral Center” of the Democratic Party

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With the mainstream media continuing to pursue (with the encouragement of some Democratic party insiders) its “anyone but Bernie” strategy, my impulse was to demand that Warren, Buttigieg and Klobuchar need to drop out and endorse Bernie.  Then … [Read more...] about VOTERS stand with Bernie at the “Moral Center” of the Democratic Party