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A successful Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
A successful Thanksgiving
There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realize that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer.
~ Helen Macdonald
~ Helen Macdonald
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realize that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer.
~ Helen Macdonald
~ Helen Macdonald
preference for the number three over four. Thus Pauli. . . realized that the problem was more than 2,000 years old, harking back to Babylonian times . . .
~ Arthur I. Miller, 137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession
~ Arthur I. Miller, 137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
preference for the number three over four. Thus Pauli. . . realized that the problem was more than 2,000 years old, harking back to Babylonian times . . .
~ Arthur I. Miller, 137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession
~ Arthur I. Miller, 137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession
The other case in which three and four occurred simultaneously had been in Pauli’s dream image of the world clock in which “three rhythms are contained.” However, since the “image of the zodiac is not yet correct, then also is the 12 ‘incomplete,’” Pauli wrote von Franz. The zodiac is “not yet
November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The other case in which three and four occurred simultaneously had been in Pauli’s dream image of the world clock in which “three rhythms are contained.” However, since the “image of the zodiac is not yet correct, then also is the 12 ‘incomplete,’” Pauli wrote von Franz. The zodiac is “not yet
And the tall ships get their orders at sea.
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
And the tall ships get their orders at sea.
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
I am counting on it.
November 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I am counting on it.
Hank says hello.
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Hank says hello.
You must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that. Break out!
~ John Keating, (Dead Poets Society, 1989)
~ John Keating, (Dead Poets Society, 1989)
![Image: three stacks of books under the caption “How Much You Learn”. The short stack “From Theory”, the mid-stack “From Practice”, and the tall stack “From Mistakes. There is a line upon which all three stacks rest upon. That is time’s arrow in a life. (Vicarious versus existential learning)
Poster’s added note:
[the class hesitates to rip out the introduction page] “It's not the Bible, you're not gonna go to Hell for this.” ~ John Keating, Dead Poets Society](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ow32jmzi6mqnfn75klk2nfpf/bafkreibpiqok7w2yg3n3mvetutpr3pbp7iwbgdxe4em76tn4a7lukqbloy@jpeg)
November 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
You must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Don't be resigned to that. Break out!
~ John Keating, (Dead Poets Society, 1989)
~ John Keating, (Dead Poets Society, 1989)
Even the alchemists had said: “One book opens the other. Read many books and compare them throughout and then you get the meaning. By reading one book alone you cannot get it, you cannot otherwise decipher it.”
~ Marie-Louise von Franz, Alchemical Active Imagination
~ Marie-Louise von Franz, Alchemical Active Imagination
November 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Even the alchemists had said: “One book opens the other. Read many books and compare them throughout and then you get the meaning. By reading one book alone you cannot get it, you cannot otherwise decipher it.”
~ Marie-Louise von Franz, Alchemical Active Imagination
~ Marie-Louise von Franz, Alchemical Active Imagination
Though alchemists included both fools and charlatans among their number, as has every other calling, most alchemists were neither. They were likely to be intelligent, religious, inquisitive, and necessarily solitary.
~ Robin Robertson, Jungian Archetypes: Jung, Gödel, and the History of Archetypes
~ Robin Robertson, Jungian Archetypes: Jung, Gödel, and the History of Archetypes
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Though alchemists included both fools and charlatans among their number, as has every other calling, most alchemists were neither. They were likely to be intelligent, religious, inquisitive, and necessarily solitary.
~ Robin Robertson, Jungian Archetypes: Jung, Gödel, and the History of Archetypes
~ Robin Robertson, Jungian Archetypes: Jung, Gödel, and the History of Archetypes
or pictures. The inevitable accompanying symptom is that the ego momentarily identifies with these utterances, only to revoke them in the same breath. And, indeed, the things one says when in the grip of an affect sometimes seem very strange and daring.
~ C. G. Jung
~ C. G. Jung
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
or pictures. The inevitable accompanying symptom is that the ego momentarily identifies with these utterances, only to revoke them in the same breath. And, indeed, the things one says when in the grip of an affect sometimes seem very strange and daring.
~ C. G. Jung
~ C. G. Jung
There are truths which belong to the future, truths which belong to the past, and truths which belong to no time.
~ C. G. Jung, The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious
~ C. G. Jung, The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious
November 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
There are truths which belong to the future, truths which belong to the past, and truths which belong to no time.
~ C. G. Jung, The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious
~ C. G. Jung, The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious
“I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light.”
~ Delenn of Minbar
Cha-cha-cha changes
~ Delenn of Minbar
Cha-cha-cha changes
November 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light.”
~ Delenn of Minbar
Cha-cha-cha changes
~ Delenn of Minbar
Cha-cha-cha changes
"Go!" cried the True Voice of the Worldtree and pushed the Jesuit through the farcaster portal even as the platform, the Worldtree's trunk, and the Templar's robe burst into flame.
~ Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
~ Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"Go!" cried the True Voice of the Worldtree and pushed the Jesuit through the farcaster portal even as the platform, the Worldtree's trunk, and the Templar's robe burst into flame.
~ Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
~ Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
About suffering they were never wrong The Old Masters:
how well they understood it's human position;
~ W. H. Auden, Muse de Beaux Arts (December 1938)
how well they understood it's human position;
~ W. H. Auden, Muse de Beaux Arts (December 1938)
November 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
About suffering they were never wrong The Old Masters:
how well they understood it's human position;
~ W. H. Auden, Muse de Beaux Arts (December 1938)
how well they understood it's human position;
~ W. H. Auden, Muse de Beaux Arts (December 1938)
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
but it kept him out as surely as might a runaway containment field.
~ Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
~ Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
but it kept him out as surely as might a runaway containment field.
~ Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
~ Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
Contra pop psychology Ego isn't a problem. One needs a strong ego to unfold one's unique Self. Fly the freak flag. Eff the ineffable.
Rather Ego contents is at issue; what's in your ego wallet. As Kurt Vonnegut said, "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
Rather Ego contents is at issue; what's in your ego wallet. As Kurt Vonnegut said, "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Contra pop psychology Ego isn't a problem. One needs a strong ego to unfold one's unique Self. Fly the freak flag. Eff the ineffable.
Rather Ego contents is at issue; what's in your ego wallet. As Kurt Vonnegut said, "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
Rather Ego contents is at issue; what's in your ego wallet. As Kurt Vonnegut said, "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
“Then the sailors say, "The halcyon days are here. Let us be glad. There is nothing to fear.”
novusbestiary.com/halcyon
novusbestiary.com/halcyon
November 20, 2025 at 12:45 AM
“Then the sailors say, "The halcyon days are here. Let us be glad. There is nothing to fear.”
novusbestiary.com/halcyon
novusbestiary.com/halcyon
nobody had ever discovered it nor even searched for it, perhaps. But it cast an enchantment over that house. My home was hiding a secret in the depths of its heart . . .
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
November 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
nobody had ever discovered it nor even searched for it, perhaps. But it cast an enchantment over that house. My home was hiding a secret in the depths of its heart . . .
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince