Q: Why do you think authoritarian leaders go after people like you, people who deal in ideas? When you said there’s a playbook, we’ve seen that in places all around the world. A: From time immemorial. Q: But as someone who’s the subject of that kind of censure, I’m wondering why you think it happens.Continue reading “Writers, WRITE!”
Author Archives: Joann
Thoughts leaving Ireland
Last full day in Ireland Shrubs and flowers persist through the old stone walls,Gulls perch on top of the steeples and church crossesChildren laugh in a garden carved between two old factories. IMG_1060 3.HEIC4032×3024 4.13 MB Life goes on, surviving, flowers pushing through stone,Century after century on this green land. IMG_1058 3.HEIC5712×4284 5.29 MB PeopleContinue reading “Thoughts leaving Ireland”
Audience for Power of Love?
At the end of my journaling each morning, I do an affirmation. It’s supposed to be a positive, powerful, personal, possible, present statement that helps me reach for a goal and motivates me to do the next thing to get my book published. I write it 10 times at the end of my journal eachContinue reading “Audience for Power of Love?”
The Universe is connecting me to the right publisher!
The title of this post has been my “affirmation” for the last 21 days of the month of November 2024. the idea of writing affirmations for 21 days comes from my friend and mentor Ruth Fishel, who has published over 25 books and is presently publishing three books at the same time (with different publishers!).Continue reading “The Universe is connecting me to the right publisher!”
LISTEN!
November 11, 2024 Listening in Community We had a full mindfulness day yesterday, a very deep, healing recitation of the 14 Mindfulness Trainings, with Kaira Jewel as our dharma sharing leader. She suggested that the topic for our sharing was to select a phrase from one of the trainings that spoke to us that dayContinue reading “LISTEN!”
Sunlight of Opportunity
January 18, 2021 M What a two-week period in American history! Three major “I’s” on three January Wednesdays – Insurrection on Jan 6, Impeachment on Jan 13, Inauguration on Jan 20! Today’s official celebration of MKL’s birthday gives us some perspective from which to view all three. The 264 years of slavery did not endContinue reading “Sunlight of Opportunity”
Now More than Ever
When is a good time to practice Qi Gong? Daily, early in the morning, outdoors, especially at the beach is our favorite time and place. But the best answer is ANYTIME, ANYPLACE, every day – especially NOW. In these last few months, and increasingly in the last two weeks, our country has experienced intenseContinue reading “Now More than Ever”
Please pray!
Dear Friends, Someone dear to me must pass a test tomorrow in order to carry out a huge creative project. Please pray for her! I stopped praying for a long period of my life when I decided I had no faith. Then life crashed, got unbearable and some sort of prayer must have escaped myContinue reading “Please pray!”
Balancing Justice and Mercy
Details of the January 6 assault on the US Capitol continue to emerge as more arrests take place. The Capitol police should have been better prepared with all the advance notice of the planned armed rally. They should have sought reinforcements earlier. The DC government should have had the power to rouse its own NationalContinue reading “Balancing Justice and Mercy”
HOPE!
There is much good news today: Only 11 more days of the Trump reign, or less if he is removed under the 25th Amendment (which might prevent him from running for office again) or impeached for a second time. The win of two Senate seats in Georgia. Many former Trump supporters speaking out against hisContinue reading “HOPE!”
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