Wabi-sabi: A Way to Look at the World

Wabi-sabi: seeing beauty in what is weathered and impermanent, in conditions beyond conventional symmetry. It’s an ancient aesthetic rooted in Zen Buddhism.

In a Word, Check

 

Case in point: I just saw a meme about Barbie being 85. She isn't.

Now About All That 'Free Stuff'

The rich have benefited vastly from the infrastructure, the educational system and the legal protections afforded them by this society. And it's LONG past time for them to PAY THAT BACK, and WITH INTEREST.

Meet the 'Patriots' Who Wouldn't Lift a Finger to Save Their Country from Disaster

 The selfishness of the unvaccinated is truly staggering.

American Journalism 2021

More than 20 years of being whipped curs has trained the cringing Beltway news media to shill for the GOP, whether they're in or out of power.

If You're Jung at Heart

“You would invite illness, indeed, if you should give up your conscious and rational orientation,” wrote the psychologist Carl Jung. “On the other hand, it is equally true that life is not only rational. To a certain extent, you have to keep your senses open to the nonrational aspects of existence…”

“The unconscious itself is neither tricky nor evil — it is nature, both beautiful and terrible… The best way of dealing with the unconscious is the creative way…”

“By keeping quiet, repressing nothing, remaining attentive, and by accepting reality — taking things as they are, and not as I wanted them to be — by doing all this, unusual knowledge has come to me, and unusual powers as well, such as I could never have imagined before. I always thought that when we accepted things they overpowered us in some way other. This turns out not to be true at all, and it is only by accepting them that one can assume an attitude toward them.”

The Fatal Hypocrisy of Fox News

Fox News isn't suicidal. It only wants to kill its audience.