Category: Narcissism

Season’s Greetings…….

Today I learned that I could buy a baby Groot Chia for myself or someone else as a gift to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace or to celebrate any of the other spiritually based Holy days that take place during this month of December.  Yes, you too can delight your friends or family by gifting them with a plastic piece of junk that represents all that is wrong with our culture.  Not only will you be supporting the mega-movie industry, the entertainment industry that brings us so many things of value (NOT), but you will also be supporting war for oil, shooting peaceful protestors with rubber bullets, oil slicks in pastures, rivers, lakes and oceans, plastic islands in the oceans and so much more to help honor the Spirit of the season.

So what is the Spirit of the season…. Really……  From where I’m sitting it appears to be more about gluttony than a celebration of love, peace and the gifts that God/Spirit/Universe/Allah have given us.  Whatever happened to getting together just for the sake of getting together because we appreciate one another?  Whatever happened to making a heartfelt gift from home supplies that represent how you really feel about someone?  Why are we all stressing about spending more than our bank accounts really support, sending ‘things’ miles away with no time to spare, yelling at retail clerks for not doing, having, being what it is that we ‘think’ we need? Continue reading “Season’s Greetings…….”

Will All the Dogs Eventually Eat All The Dogs?

I recently watched The Founder.  A movie telling the story of how Ray Kroc became the megamillionaire “founder”  of McDonald’s.  I was struck as I remembered reading McDonald’s:  Behind the Arches by John F. Love many years ago.  I had read it in my quest for what I thought might be success.  This book focused on the duplicability and the entrepreneurship that was the keystone of McDonald’s and the story of Ray Kroc.  Watching The Founder offered me a different look at what the history of McDonald’s involved. Continue reading “Will All the Dogs Eventually Eat All The Dogs?”

Ghost Fishing and the Oiligarchy

I like to listen to interesting and informative podcasts while working sometimes.  Recently, I listened to the Stuff You Should Know podcast on Ghost Fishing (http://www.stuffyoushouldknow.com/podcasts/ghost-fishing.htm) and found myself, yet again, repulsed by the ego of humankind. Continue reading “Ghost Fishing and the Oiligarchy”

Today We Honor the Mosquito

Honor the mosquito?!?!?! What?!?!?!  Am I crazy?!?!?!  These are the questions I awoke with after my guides directed me to blog in honor of the mosquito today.  So I meditated on the mosquito before rising.  I could feel their need to be heard.  So much is blamed on them.  So much hatred is directed toward them.  There is something quite profound in the fact that it is only the females who bite to draw blood.  How can we truly be in relationship with the WHOLE if we are bent upon eradicating one of the species?

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Our Food is Locked Up!

I’m reading the book ‘My Ishmael’ by Daniel Quinn.  I’ve never read his work before.  ‘My Ishmael’ is the second in a series, but this is where I began.  It doesn’t matter that I have not yet read ‘Ishmael’ but I most certainly intend to go back to it after reading this treasure.  I cannot recommend this book enough!!!!  Continue reading “Our Food is Locked Up!”

Where have all the antelope gone?

Several years ago, as we watched a small herd of mama antelope with their babies playing in our back pasture, I had a friend pensively ask why she no longer had antelope at her place.  They have 40 acres SE of Denver and used to see them all the time.  I asked if more fences had gone in around her.  She said yes, but she still got plenty of deer.  She wondered why the antelope disappeared.  I told her that it’s the fencing.

Antelope are not prone to jumping like deer do.  Will they jump? Yes.  Will they choose to move out of an area if their only option for migration and daily movement is to jump fences?  YES.  Continue reading “Where have all the antelope gone?”

GMO’s and the God complex

As humans we all are prone to the seven deadly sins.  So today let’s talk about PRIDE.  Our ego often replaces our need for God through our pride.  GMO’s(Genetically Modified Organisms) are one such example.

One of the arguments I often hear for GMO’s is that we need them to feed the world.  Interesting concept when one considers that God created a sustainable planet.  Where we get it wrong is in our desire to dominate the planet rather than be the stewards that God commanded of us.  Since we, in our pride, feel that we know how to grow food in a ‘better’ way than how God has given us, we have to make modifications that are more technical and scientific than faith driven.   Continue reading “GMO’s and the God complex”