As you head down the path, the moon seems to follow you.  It's a beacon but also a reference point--a startling constant as you move forward.  It returns to you, prying over your shoulder.  What are your constants that help you chart the complexities and sorrows?


We are not entirely distinct or independant as we like to think. our thinking is assisted by others; our ideas boosted by contact with their opposites, our imaginations inspired by the creativity of others.

I like this scarf because it mixes opposites: the light soft lace with the shimmering silver fabric with its flowing drape.  So feminine and mysterious.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/122857613/scarf-lace-two-layered-infinity-lace


Biologically, life does exhibit a profound interconnectedness.  A story of sailors who, wanting to be rid of an accummulation of starfish, chopped them in half and threw them over hte side.  Each arm of the starfish became a new starfish!  Whatever we try to cast off in life can also return to us, even perhaps in greater strength. This seems like an argument for really talking and listening to others, for avoiding assumptions and cherishing mystery, for recognizing the complexities in our varied circumstances.


“Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. (attr to J. Isham)” 
― Sura Hart, Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids: 7 Keys to Turn Family Conflict into Cooperati




signed,

the philosopher's daughter

Wake up your winter!

Citrine and lime--Well this sounds like a cool drink.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/122927307/citrus-for-your-winter-days-two-new?



More thought on "All You Need Is Love"... in response to the David Cain article on the Beatles:

I believe David Cain's response to the song, "All You Need is Love" is more profound than most of the listeners during the Summer of Love.  

As others have noted, the Beatles raised an entire generation, and for the most part, it was a simplistic view of love that should be critiqued more rigorously than it has been by our mainstream culture.  I do "get" Cain's reflection on a loving response as a litmus test  (to avoid reactionary responses to others).  This is SO needed in our culture today, yet most of the time, speech is set up in the media now as combative rather than really listening in a spirit of love for others generlly--

Often, those promoting "Love is all you need"  are dedicated to antagonistic push of a tired "free love" ideology.   This was, after all, a pop song, and the simplistic embrace of the Beatles' lyrics as endorsing romantic love meant, above all, promoting love as sex.  

To read the effects of this free love ethic on our culture, you need outsider eyes; whereas, the popular song pronounces love as all you need.   

  Let's get real--the Beatles were popularly understood to mean sex, and a free love ethic has dominated mainstream thought ever since: freedom in sexual matters gets promoted nonstop in our mainstream.  Hopefully, the new young generation will take what's good from the Beatles but also see through sixties rhetoric.   http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/7-profound-insights-from-the-beatles/

signed,

the philosopher's daughter