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I want to wish a very Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous 2024 to all my family, friends, and associates. May we become more kind, tolerant and loving toward ourselves and others.

"The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to be a genuine human being and impart satisfying meaning to one's existence, to have a good heart."

~ Dalai Lama

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Oh ya, homemade soup of any kind, chili, chicken or beef stew!!!

If you have not got love - not just in little drops but in abundance - if you are not filled with it - the world will go to disaster. You know intellectually that the unity of mankind is essential and that love is the only way, but who is going to teach you how to love? Will any authority, any method, any system, tell you how to love? If anyone tells you, it is not love. Can you say, l will practise love. I will sit down day after day and think about it. I will practise being kind and gentle and force myself to pay attention to others?' Do you mean to say that you can discipline yourself to love, exercise the will to love? When you exercise discipline and will to love, love goes out of the window. By practising some method or system of loving you may become extraordinarily clever or more kindly or get into a state of non- violence, but that has nothing whatsoever to do with love.⁠
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In this torn desert world there is no love because pleasure and desire play the greatest roles, yet without love your daily life has no meaning. And you cannot have love if there is no beauty. Beauty is not something you see - not a beautiful tree, a beautiful picture, a beautiful building or a beautiful woman. There is beauty only when your heart and mind know what love is. Without love and that sense of beauty there is no virtue, and you know very well that, do what you will, improve society, feed the poor, you will only be creating more mischief, for without love there is only ugliness and poverty in your own heart and mind. But when there is love and beauty, whatever you do is right, whatever you do is in order. If you know how to love, then you can do what you like because it will solve all other problems.⁠
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6 Things Emotionally Neglected Adults Think They Need They do need to know that their needs are valid, and can be expressed.

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How to Recognize Negative Thought Cycles and Stop Obsessing Understanding that it's your choice to step in and intervene.

Members of the military will now get 12 weeks of parental leave The new guidance is for birthing and non-birthing parents, including parents who recently adopted a child and parents who used a surrogate.

I have a friend who does such a great job of tending to both his inner and outer worlds/lives which serves as both inspiration and challenge to me. He just reminded me that today is the First Sunday of Advent. The Advent/calendar reminds me of my very good friend, Michael, who was the curator of collections at the Jung Institute of San Francisco for many years and now lives in Portland, OR who also does such a great job of tending to both worlds. His annual ritual of erecting a beautiful Advent wreath and faithful conducting of a daily candle-lighting and prayer liturgy always reminded prodded me to get my ass in gear and "do something" to mark the seasons of return.
I do read and/or watch Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" every year which reminds and re-evokes in me Tiny Tim who cracked open Scrooge's calcified heart revealing the renewing and regenerating archetypal action of the "Divine Child" so present and operant in the Christmas story/myth. Would that the turning of the natural world and seasons effect that rebirth if we are able and willing to allow it in and participate.

HOURS/MILES-LONG LINES AT POLLING PLACES. THIS IS HAPPENING ALL OVER AMERICA RIGHT NOW.

If you are tied up, rendered powerless, and slapped across the face every day for 4 years, an enormous amount of anger, resentment, and resolve will build up over all that time. 60-65% of Americans are seething, fuming, and straining at the bit to put a stop to this endless rampage of disgrace, criminality, immorality, negativity, insults to human rights, and attacks on Democracy.

Now we will see a national reckoning of what kind of country the United States really is and where we are going from here. I don't think it will happen without further struggle but we must and ARE using what power we DO have. God Bless those true American HEROES who are standing in line for up to 11-12 hours to exercise that power. Because, if we don't even have that power, we are lost.

Let's all hold one another in brother/sisterhood, love, caring, compassion, and connection during this pandemic. It's during these times that we feel our vulnerability and need for one another.

These are the everyday heroes that are making our world a better place.....

A local man is getting ready to prepare a holiday meal for hundreds of strangers.

Rubin Swift has been saving and planning all year for Thanksgiving. He has dozens of turkeys, boxes of potatoes, and multiple bags of fresh corn. All the food will be used to feed people he doesn't even know.

"We got a lot of food, and I am hoping to to feed about 500 people this year," Swift said, as he unpacked some of the canned food and sorted in on his counter. "I feel there is a need to feed people. A lot of people have problems but before you can get to their problems you have to feed them. You have to feed the natural before you can get to the spiritual."

For the past few years Swift has been making Thanksgiving dinner for people out of his home, but this year he wanted to reach more people so he asked for some donations. He also got permission to use the hall at his church for the event.

"If people are unable to get out and come just let me know, we will get them food," Swift said.

The dinner will be served from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday November 23 at Cathedral Church of God in Christ on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Cleveland.

"Everyone is welcome," Swift said. "If you are home and you don't have anyone to eat with or if you feel depressed and need a little extra boost then come out and eat with us. I will be there, you can talk to me, and I will eat with you."

Anyone interested in donating, or volunteering can call Swift at (440) 502-8675.

TONIGHT'S DEMOCRATIC DEBATE IS SPECIFICALLY DEDICATED TO LGBT ISSUES. THIS IS A FIRST.

What you project onto your world is what you will find. Choose love instead of fear. Enjoy your day. Floris