HIGHLIGHTS
We are invited to mirror the Earth resting before her Spring awakening so we can better connect with the world's physical & spiritual hunger...
Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras)
Sending some Mardi Gras (“Fat Tuesday”) vibrations from New Orleans and around the globe…
Iko Iko feat. Dr. John, members of Grateful Dead + more | Playing For Change | Song Around The World (04:07)
For strict observers, 5 hours til the midnight hour…last chance…before Lent begins…
We are also in the Muslim season of Ramadan. Regardless of our spiritual choices, remember those who have less, not because of a religious practice, but because of their basic lack of food, shelter and health care…
Ramadan
We are also in the Muslim season of Ramadan. Regardless of our spiritual choices, remember those who have less, not because of a religious practice, but because of their basic lack of food, shelter and health care…
Baha'i
Karen, one of our Baha'i friends replied to my Fat Tuesday text:
"That's why at Sunday's party for children, we asked participating families to bring canned and dry goods for the INN." That's the Mary Brennan INN in Hempstead, NY.
These next excerpts (link follows) are from a 2019 Baha'i article on how fasting helps us develop compassion for those suffering from hunger. It's Part 3 in a series.
"Unfortunately, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that about 815 million people of the 7.6 billion on the planet suffered from chronic undernourishment in 2016. In simpler terms, they went hungry, and their hunger threatened their survival. Almost half (45%) of the world’s childhood deaths happen as a result of hunger."
"The world currently produces enough food to feed everyone on it, but the main causes of hunger—poverty and war—keep that food out of the mouths that most desperately need it."
"Everyone understands that poverty leads to hunger—but few understand that hunger also causes poverty. If you’re chronically hungry it inevitably results in poor health, small body size, low levels of energy and reductions in mental functioning. Hunger can generate even greater poverty by reducing a person’s ability to work and learn, which leads to the vicious cycle of more hunger."
"Perhaps that ongoing human misery explains why so many Faiths and spiritual practices recommend fasting, so we can remind ourselves—especially those of us sufficiently privileged to have enough to eat every day—what it means to go hungry."
"A financier with colossal wealth should not exist whilst near him is a poor man in dire necessity. When we see poverty allowed to reach a condition of starvation it is a sure sign that somewhere we shall find tyranny. Men must bestir themselves in this matter, and no longer delay in altering conditions which bring the misery of grinding poverty to a very large number of the people. The rich must give of their abundance, they must soften their hearts and cultivate a compassionate intelligence, taking thought for those sad ones who are suffering from lack of the very necessities of life." – Abdu’l-Baha, Paris Talks, p. 153.
Ash Wednesday: continuing the beat…while slowing it down...
"Dust In The Wind" - Kansas
I close my eyes
Only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams
Pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind
Same old song
Just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do
Crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Now don't hang on
Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away
And all your money won't another minute buy
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
(All we are is dust in the wind)
Dust in the wind
(Everything is dust in the wind)
Everything is dust in the wind
(In the wind)
"Fly Like An Eagle" - Steve Miller Band
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
I want to fly like an eagle
To the sea
Fly like an eagle
Let my spirit carry me
I want to fly like an eagle
Till I'm free
Oh, Lord, through the revolution
Feed the babies
Who don't have enough to eat
Shoe the children
With no shoes on their feet
House the people
Livin' in the street
Oh, oh, there's a solution
I want to fly like an eagle
To the sea
Fly like an eagle
Let my spirit carry me
I want to fly like an eagle
Till I'm free
Fly through the revolution
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
I want to fly like an eagle
To the sea
Fly like an eagle
Let my spirit carry me
I want to fly like an eagle
Till I'm free
Fly through the revolution
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'
Into the future
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