RESPONSE. The Pandemic RESPONSE. #staystrong #staysane https://www.instagram.com/p/CMZ3vKlgUp0/?igshid=1og9mdugjz1b0

#separatedatbirth https://www.instagram.com/p/CHooNaCgTg6/?igshid=163hwmkuezuvw

“And then punch yourself in the face! And then cry! No, cry harder, we can’t get turned on from all this shaming until you cry harder!!” Why do I keep posting this stuff when no one wants to hear it, I wonder? I dunno. There’s a specific sensation, or feeling-tone, that I get when I yell at the wind about the stupid things people do. And really, social media is just that: yelling at the wind. So here we are. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHns9FAAPVO/?igshid=m0s6ek5oowwa

But seriously, keep shutting down theatres and restaurants and *pleasure*, and keep separating families, and keep isolating the dying and the bereaved, and keep ignoring and attacking millennia of human modalities, I’m sure all the goddamn narcs and apologists for STEM-fetish are much wiser than anyone who has come before and the sea will respect your fucking commands. #fear #staysane #staystrong https://www.instagram.com/p/CGK8nChAfl-/?igshid=cvj1lzy3e352

You know what's wild?

Your body- like, the one you're existing as? Your mind prison?- it's not a wholly independant entity. It's an ecosystem. You're a bog that's self-aware

June 1971

“If, in physics, one seeks to explain the nature of light, nobody expects that as a result there will be no light. But in the case of psychology everybody believes that what it explains is explained away”. - C. G. Jung

“Change your conception of yourself and you will automatically change the world in which you live. Do not try to change people; they are only messengers telling you who you are. Revalue yourself and they will confirm the change.”

- Charles Eisenstein

by diberkato

This insane “headline” is the child of the following series of unfortunate events : (1) I am a child and I live in a boring, square, sleepy, but reasonably pleasant city called Toronto; (2) Ontario elects Mike Harris and he destroys all of Toronto’s core infrastructure; (3) Toronto elects Mel Lastman and he embarks on a stupid quest to be a “world-class city”; (4) Toronto elects Rob Ford and he destroys whatever’s left; (5) Japanese restaurants arrive in Toronto, and somehow become the only growth service vertical, since all the other service verticals were destroyed in steps (2) through (4); (6) cootie pandemic. (7) through (12) have yet to occur but I feel confident that they will be variations on “ya fucked!”

Little boy meets André the Giant (1970s) Check this blog!

Ill Fortune ofttimes draws men back to true good with grappling-irons. - Boethius #quotes

The One Thing You Must Do

There is one thing in this world you must never forget to do. If you forget everything else and not this, there's nothing to worry about, but if you remember everything else and forget this, then you will have done nothing in your life.

It's as if a king has sent you to some country to do a task, and you perform a hundred other services, but not the one he sent you to do. So human beings come to this world to do particular work. That work is the purpose, and each is specific to the person. If you don't do it, it's as though a priceless Indian sword were used to slice rotten meat. It's a golden bowl being used to cook turnips, when one filing from the bowl could buy a hundred suitable pots. It's like a knife of the finest tempering nailed into a wall to hang things on.

You say, "But look, I'm using the dagger. It's not lying idle." Do you hear how ludicrous that sounds? For a penny an iron nail could be bought to serve for that. You say, "But I spend my energies on lofty enterprises. I study jurisprudence and philosophy and logic and astronomy and medicine and the rest." But consider why you do those things. They are all branches of yourself.

Remember the deep root of your being, the presence of your lord. Give yourself to the one who already owns your breath and your moments. If you don't, you will be like the man who takes a precious dagger and hammers it into his kitchen wall for a peg to hold his dipper gourd. You'll be wasting valuable keenness and forgetting your dignity and purpose.

- Rumi, The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems

Anxiety is the enemy of action and sympathy is the mother of anxiety, and a Queen murders the mothers of her enemies if she cares about the dynastic line.

- Zoe Selengut #quotes

Huh. You don’t say. #staysane #staystrong

To all my friends and family around the world!!! I’m doing a Zoom Seder tonight with my very own Withrow Hagaddah from 2015 - it’s very inclusive - if you don’t have other Seder action happening, and would like to join, please drop me a text or email and I’ll send out the login info around 6.30p... “Let all who are hungry, come and (virtually) eat!” https://www.instagram.com/p/B-urQKMAf5h/?igshid=c4lpnvcid9vi