The point of bureaucracy is to put a buffer of regulations between people. It seems to me that money is similarly used. People talk about wanting more intimate relationships, more real experiences with each other; but in the day-to-day we put others into boxes and dismiss them.

The paradox, if we want to label it as such, is that while we spend our whole lives living in the real universe, we are all quite incapable of perceiving that universe as it actually exists. All we can do is take what we do perceive and make the best of it.

first they annihilated the dignity of the children; but we were not children, so we did nothing.

I tend to think the country is more divided between those looking for solutions and those looking to assign blame.

Regardless of specific circumstances, people shattered by trauma deserve whatever help they need to reframe their reference-point, their worldview, such that the shattering experience can be encompassed meaningfully. It is to everyone’s benefit that we learn to understand and respond to traumatic experiences thus that they can be absorbed into a growing effective life. This is not a world in which we can prevent pain. It is a world in which we can create effective responses to mitigate damage.

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every Trump appearance causes me mental anguish

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save the money -- just speak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5-W1znnqOs

Stevie Nicks › Date of birth
May 26, 1948

#gemini #music

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try dancing -- the exercise that's disguised as fun

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reminds me of the Shirley Jackson story, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8nRmYj3GTQ

Fred Astaire › Date of birth
May 10, 1899

#taurus #music #dance #movie

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what about Real ID?

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we need to mob these kidnappers and prevent their vicious crimes

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it's always about that place holder IOU we created to aid trade, that has become some kind of unfeeling deity
Forget the cost in currency -- remember the price for not fully funding essential services

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but, do you want to?

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-4-2025

..."Conservative judge J. Michael Luttig explained to MSNBC’s Ali Velshi that far-right scholars have argued that the president does not have to follow the Supreme Court if he doesn’t agree with its decisons: he can interpret the Constitution for himself. Luttig called this “constitutional deni"...

emerging visions #visionary #art zine
moving from the visionary’s imagination into view that all of us may learn to see further

Issue 1 May/Beltane

https://emergingvisions.blogspot.com/2006/05/

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because he is not allowing one

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whatever happened to Gen Y?

Democracy is damaged by ignorance and instilled divisiveness. If we want a well-working democracy, we must educate effectively lessons of history, processes of legislation and decision-making, practical critical thinking, interactive discussion, social psychology, project creation and management …

maybe we all should run for something
https://runforsomething.net/