"If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic." 

-- Hazel Henderson

Pleas'd to look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
~ Alexander Pope

6am - am about to get dressed and go out to VOTE!

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Reptilelike, we humans slink close to the ground, mired in the mud of our animal nature and the muck of our cultural prejudices.  Yet, like birds, we are also of the spirit, capable of soaring in the heavens, transcending our narrow-mindedness and sinful proclivities.  Our task is to come to terms with our dragonhood.

~ M. Scott Peck

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

You must understand Change; if you only know what is regular, what is unchanging, and do not know Change, you will be like the man who dropped his sword in the water and tried to find it by making a mark on the side of his boat - wasting your time.

~ Liu Yin

Deep on the inside everyone is like a church, and the walls are adorned with festive frescoes.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke