Light and Darkness,
not bound as one,
nor estranged as two—
they dance,
like steps in a journey,
one foot leading,
the other following,
each giving rise to the other.
Without Light,
Darkness waits,
holding space,
a quiet pause before the stride.
Without Darkness,
Light burns unrelieved,
its brilliance untethered,
its rhythm lost.
Together,
they walk the eternal path,
not as enemies,
but as partners—
a balance,
a flow,
a harmony.
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I’m thinking of you, whoever and wherever you are.
I am with you.
I see your light.
I feel your energy.
May I sit with you for a moment?
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”
— Marianne Williamson
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
— Aesop
I’ve been watching this guy on YouTube who lives an honest and simple life in the Italian mountains…and it’s some of the best tv I’ve ever watched; peaceful, beautiful and inspiring. 🧡🙏🕊️
All I need is you, everything else can wait.
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary.
To one without faith, no explanation is possible."
— Thomas Aquinas
No time like the present to remind anyone you know who keeps their Bitcoin on exchanges…
“Not your keys, not your coins!”
Thanksgiving prep… #foodstr
Name that film…
“You couldn’t hear a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant.”
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Welcome back! I’d agree that’s a great problem to have.
I’d like to say three things before I close my eyes…
thank you,
I love you
and good night.
🙏🧡🌙
“Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.”
— Zig Ziglar
I think I may have pushed her into this situation. God damn emotions.
What the f do you do when you suspect a family member is being heavily manipulated by their partner into making major life decisions that push their family away, especially when they only communicate with you while that person is present?
It worked out cheaper for us than if we had booked it ourselves because they have access to commercial rates. You can tell them your budget. You can also use Travala, I’ve used them multiple times as well to book cheap flights and hotels, they accept lightning.
I’ve used them multiple times, can highly recommend!
“Consider the following sequence of cases, which we shall call the Tale of the Slave, and imagine it is about you.
1. There is a slave completely at the mercy of his brutal master’s whims. He is often cruelly beaten, called out in the middle of the night, and so on.
2. The master is kindlier and beats the slave only for stated infractions of his rules (not fulling the work quota, and so on). He gives the slave some free time.
3. The master has a group of slave, and he decides how things are to be allocated among them on nice grounds, taking into account their needs, merit, and so on.
4. The master allows the slave four days on their own and requires them to work only three days a week on his land. The rest of the time is their own.
5. The master allows his slaves to go off and work in the city (or anywhere they wish) for wages. He also retains the power to recall them to the plantation if some emergency threatens his land; and to raise or lower the three-sevenths amount required to be turned over to him. He further retains the right to restrict the slaves from participating in certain dangerous activities that threaten his financial return, for example, mountain climbing, cigarette smoking.
6. The master allows all of his 10,000 slaves, except you, to vote, and the joint decision is made by all of them. There is open discussion, and so forth, among them, and they have the power to determine to what use to put whatever percentage of your (and their) earnings they decide to take; what activities legitimately may be forbidden to you, and so on.
7. Though still not having the vote, you are at liberty (and are given the right) to enter into discussion of the 10,000, to try to persuade them to adopt various policies and to treat you and themselves in a certain way. They then go off to vote to decide upon policies covering the vast range of their powers.
8. In appreciation of your useful contributions to discussion, the 10,000 allow you to vote if they are deadlocked; they commit themselve3s to this procedure. After the discussion you mark your vote on a slip of paper, and they go off and vote. In the eventuality that they divide evenly on some issue, 5,000 for and 5,000 against, they look at your ballot and count it in. This has never yet happened; they have never yet had occasion to open your ballot. (A single master may also might commit himself to letting his slave decide any issue concerning him about which he, the master, was absolutely indifferent.)
9. They throw your vote in with theirs. If they are exactly tied your vote carries the issue. Otherwise it makes no difference to the electoral outcome.
The question is: which transition from case 1 to case 9 made it no longer the tale of the slave?”
— Robert Nozick