Devi;Vijaya Lakshmi - the Lakshmi of Victory. G - DS - 2024. |
synonyms: thriving, doing well, fortunate, successful, lucky, rich, vigorous, roaring, strong, productive, flourishing, booming, opulent, golden...
antonyms: depressed, poor.
- Via Google/Oxford Languages. Prosperous is a word few of us can really wrap our heads around. Why is this?
I see them every day now in southwestern Albuquerque... more of them, and more frequently: the misfortunate nomads - the darker side of the American dream - wheeling their life's belongings in shopping carts down the vacant streets with no destination... no protection, no peace. They appear to be American refugees of every description. While I was never one of them, I, too, was homeless - and, theoretically, still am - but the emergence of the new Traveler or Nomad and the plight of the disenfranchised is not a recent development. I began living in my car the year following Trump's inauguration. And, then, came the Black Hole - the Pandemic. We all know the rest.
It is true: we - none of us - can "go back"; "back" no longer exists as we once knew it.There are those who question Michael Wolff's integrity as an author, but the last line quoted (regarding the poisoned "well") rings true to me. It seems Americans have been drinking from that well for the past nine years. (Inset right: Trumpenstein)
"Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president of the United States from one of the two major political parties (1972).
In 1964, Chisholm ran for and became the second African American in the New York State Legislature... There, “Fighting Shirley” introduced more than 50 pieces of legislation and championed racial and gender equality, the plight of the poor, and ending the Vietnam War. She was a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971, and in 1977 became the first Black woman and second woman ever to serve on the powerful House Rules Committee."
- Via this Women in History page. I am old enough to remember Shirley Chisholm... whose 1972 candidacy was treated as some sort of joke by many Americans... not so much because she was a woman of color but because she was a she.
She was an avatar.
"Her campaign was underfunded, only spending $300,000 in total. She also struggled to be regarded as a serious candidate instead of as a symbolic political figure; the Democratic political establishment ignored her, and her black male colleagues provided little support. She later said, "When I ran for the Congress, when I ran for president, I met more discrimination as a woman than for being black. Men are men." In particular, she expressed frustration about the "black matriarch thing", saying, "They think I am trying to take power from them. The black man must step forward, but that doesn't mean the black woman must step back."This ancient symbol has an important cosmological significance as well. In fact is been observed that the design of the Sri Yantra, and in particular the triangles, is based on the rules of the Golden Ratio, a mathematical and geometrical equation observed in all of creation."
- Descriptions of the Sri Yantra and the image (inset left) were found here. In short, the Sri yantra represents an ultimate truth and is an ancient metaphysical and geometrical diagram contemplated to achieve enlightened states of mind and spirit or superconsciousness.It is in direct opposition to commercial, materialistic, and (some might say) heretical artifacts of our modern day... which polarize us while politicizing, misinterpreting and degrading religious traditions.
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- Via the Daily Beast: Donald Trump’s Racist NYC Rally Was Vile. It Was Also Political Suicide.
- Via PBS: What to know about Elon Musk’s reported phone calls with Putin and why it matters.
- Michelle Obama FULL SPEECH at Kamala Harris event in Michigan (YouTube)
- Vice President Kamala Harris Full Speech on The Ellipse in Washington, DC
- Via the Independent: Elon Musk agrees: Trump’s economic plans will lead to ‘hardship’ and cause markets to ‘tumble.’
- Harrison Ford says ‘don’t do this again’ when endorsing presidential candidate
- Michael Keaton buries Trump in message to voters ahead of election: ‘He’s not one of you’
- A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms - She’s one of at least two Texas women who died under the state’s abortion ban.
The newly "Chosen One." |
This is an interesting interlude in the few days left before the election and offers hope. Let us definitely seek understanding, else the darkness threatens to swallow each of us. Going back is never an option - the past is closed, the moments spent and the only way through is forward. May we, as a country, understand this basic truth and close the door behind us.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but before we close that door, let's remember to take the trash to the curb. ;-)
DeleteOn the topic of garbage:
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Amen Brother Jimmy! Sing it out!
DeleteWell, not to be snarky, but, no, evangelism is not the ticket! ;-)
DeleteLOL...well, if the OTHER side uses it, all is fair game!
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