Monthly Archives: July 2020
FMM 7 31 2020 Code Switching
“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson. For many of us foot-loose travelers, the last few months of home confinement have been quite a punishment. Yet even as we express that, we feel a little guilty, aware of […]
FMM 7 24 2020 It Never Happened
“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.” ~ Albert Camus. I am not sure if I have ever publicly confessed to two sins of my childhood. In one case, the person most affected is still alive, and so I have the opportunity to beg forgiveness (finally). In the […]
FMM 7 17 2020
“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.” ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca. This week I had one of those dreams that seems so real, yet cannot be told as a story when you wake up. What seemed to have plot and purpose breaks up into images and situations which […]
FMM 7 10 2020 It’s an Illusion
“The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.” ~ Bodhidharma. In my youth I was an avid reader. From the simple fairy tales of childhood, through girl detective stories to historical romances, I read them all. Short stories were special treats, you […]
FMM 7 3 2020 Raw Soul
“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.” ~ Frederick Douglass. Upstate New York is an idyllic place, a place of woods and hills and dappled light. There are place names that reveal the original owners of the land, along with […]
Friday Morning Messages 