Buddha Quote – Holding Anger Is Like Grasping A Hot Coal
“Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.” – Buddha
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Poem – America Wants to Know (By Donal Mahoney)
What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse. Maybe the FBI can put the doghouse out on the lawn. He shouldn’t be a problem there. Only men jump over the fence. Author Bio: Donal Mahoney lives in […]
Read moreArthur Ashe Quote – The Urge To Serve Others At Whatever Cost
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” – Arthur Ashe
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Cartoon – Problems In The Classroom
Poem – At A Party (By Robert Ronnow)
At a Party I spoke with two people at the party Saturday. A young police officer, short-haired, fit, chiseled face who had two young children. He felt constrained by the law, without discretion to question mopes (perps) aggressively or to let go those who were obviously no threat. Even at a family function he seemed straight-backed, correct, devoted to his […]
Read moreAnn Faraday Quote – In Forming A Bridge Between Body And Mind
“In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness and enlarge his vision not only of himself, but also of the universe in which he lives.” – Ann Faraday
Read morePoem – Ghosts (By Michael H. Brownstein)
GHOSTS I do not have a presence and she tells me she is a ghost. Substance has that kind of weight. You talk to the streams radiating from the edge of the river as if each one were a snake that fat and walk into an outer universe to draw the night with color, quick and simple, exactly like life […]
Read moreWhere Jews still aren’t welcome
Anti-Semitism is sweeping Hungary, said Colin Freeman. It’s so bad that the World Jewish Congress held its annual conference in Budapest to express solidarity with beleaguered Hungarian Jews. The Jobbik party, which is openly anti-Roma and anti-Semitic, is now the third-largest party in parliament, and its rise has coincided with a sharp uptick in anti-Semitic attacks and incidents. Jewish leaders […]
Read moreFreya Stark Quote – There Can Be No Happiness
“There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.” – Freya Stark
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