The sun poured out its rays upward until the cloud moved from in front then it spread gentle rays over the mountains.
Happiest day, beloved Joy Train Rider! Bless you! I have so many exciting things to share with you today that I can hardly wait to get going! I do affirm and hope you enjoyed the weekend and you’re raring to go today.
Let’s start with the biggest thing I learned - just this morning. Welcoming the sun as it rose obscured behind a cloud, I noticed its blue rays shooting straight up to the sky. Soon, the cloud shifted, and golden rays slowly covered the mountains, moving down their folds until it passed over town and reached me.
In that moment I felt a knowing, “I am yours. You are mine. We are inseparable.”
My heart leapt in joy as it sensed the connection, and the realization that each human heart is here to magnify light and love. I felt so happy to know that there are no circumstances that can prevent me from holding love in my heart and sending it out into the world. What freedom!
More astonishingly, our second stop comes fast on its heels when I read this story: “Biologist says the sun may be conscious.”
Immediately it struck me that only ONE biologist was mentioned, which wouldn’t elicit overwhelming confidence in the general public. But as I read on I learned that the theory dates back thousands of years and “was veritably killed in the 1920s by the Vienna Circle when its ‘logical positivism’ — the idea that philosophical questions must have logical answers — took hold of the philosophical world.”
Every day the sun shows me a new aspect of itself by how it interacts with the clouds when rising.
Whoa! Philosophical questions must have logical answers, though there’s still so much we don’t know? I feel like somebody put the cart before the horse and retarded our progress all these years. Today’s fossil fuel industry and their stalling, threatening attempts to discredit climate science comes to mind.
I brought the popcorn for our third stop to chill out here and watch the new Netflix movie “Shirley”. The historic campaign of the Hon. Shirley Chisholm in 1972, the first (and only!) Black American woman to run for president comes vividly to life through the brilliant actress Regina King and the whole cast. A “simple schoolteacher,”
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