As time passes, I think more about the seasons-I walk to and from work most days, and I notice the seasons more than when you’re sitting in a car. It also has to do with having kids in Waldorf, and reading lots of Steiner. The spring mood is: growth becoming unity. This is related to Easter. The idea is of growth and rising. I’m also reading through Steiner’s esoteric lessons, and there are some good exercises there.
Here’s the recap: church, Gamelan show, M has Epstein-Barr, library, t’ait chi for kids at church, daffodils on the way to work, picked and by my monitor, arising continues, but slowly, Erika away with friends, church, cleaning, a thing, windy, but no kiteflying, aborted plan for tennis, library-making our way through Fullmetal Alchemist, short gamelan show, 5th grade meeting, Boston bombing, help friend move.
Links: One of the Most Powerful Portrayals of What has Happened to America That You Will Ever See, Income Growth For Bottom 90 Percent Of Americans Averaged Just $59 Over 4 Decades, That Giant Sucking Sound…it’s the Oligarchs, The Violent Disorder of Our Public Mind, Five Ugly Extremes of Inequality in America, Noam Chomsky: ‘No individual changes anything alone’, Why Americans Are So Ignorant, How America Breeds Mental Illness from Birth Until Death, The Propaganda System That Has Helped Create a Permanent Overclass Is Over a Century in the Making, The Dis-Uniting of America, How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion
On the brighter side…Doomsday vs. Resurrection, The King Philosophy
Page 23, Sentence 5: “Displays of great wealth are like loud music, spicy food and swearing: a little can be potent, but too much dulls the senses.” The International Bank of Bob