It used to be erectile aids. Now, as an #author, I'm averaging 1–2 fake pitches per day. They summarize my book or career in such highly original ways, if I had the time, I'd be tempted to cull an anthology of such blurbs. (¿Maybe I'll share some?) authornews.penguinrandomhouse.com/spotting-and...

When will the brain researchers, the gut/endocrine researchers, & the heart researchers get together to play in the same sandbox ? _______________________________________________ "For us, science isn't fast enough." – Rimbaud #science #brain #heart #hormones #neurodiversity

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. —John Muir

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. —John Muir

15-year-old Emily Dickinson visited a museum exhibition of Chinese art. The guidebook described "the renunciation, withdrawal, and nothingness" at the heart of Asia religious thought – wch might've influenced the reclusive, mystical poet. tinyurl.com/mmwhb43b

How Asian art came to America: ‘The China Collectors’

Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac’s new book tracks a centuries’ old treasure hunt.

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The new species of cars – their colors offend me. The hues themselves are lurid. Moreover the fabrication makes them not only shiny but also multifarious. Yes, a forest has different shades of green. But when a single car has different shades of the same color, I find it excessive & repellent.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other. – Mary C. Richards, Centering in Pottery, Poetry, & the Person

#Authors: recent video from @authorsguild.org on how to promote your #book other than through social media authorsguild.org/resource/pro...

Thought doesn't just happen in the brain | Barbara Tversky www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tprm... #somatics #thought #thinking #consciousness

Thought doesn't just happen in the brain | Barbara Tversky

YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas

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#Philosophy can exclude nothing. Thus it should never start from systematization. Its primary stage can be termed ‘assemblage’. — Alfred North Whitehead brocku.ca/MeadProject/...

Mandani, US Politics and Corporate Media Why The Business Community Is Missing the Boat to the Future by Peter Coyote open.substack.com/pub/petercoy...

Mandani, US Politics and Corporate Media 9Just found in Drafts)

Why The Business Community is Missing the Boat to the Future

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The Buddhist word for the #community that lives in #peace and #harmony is "sangha." To live happily, wholly, truly, each of us has to create sangha. The sangha is the place - the sangha is the people with whom you can exchange feelings and thoughts. –Maxine Hong Kingston Where is *your* sangha ?

Phil Cousineau, author of recently published Wisdom of the #Odyssey, on what Christopher #Nolan's spectacular cinematic adaptation gets right ... & misses. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

S.F. mythologist explains what Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ misses

Phil Cousineau, author of “The Wisdom of the Odyssey: Twenty-Four Life Lessons From Homer’s Epic,” is helping readers connect with the 2,800-year-old epic poem.

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There is no such condition as #schizophrenia, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. Insanity – a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. – R D Laing #autism #neurodiversity #sanity #insanity #DSM #psychology #society #politics

I couldn't help but notice the high-power Fifa 2026 halftime ad about losing, from a Christian evangelical group. From a Buddhist perspective, every election, every competition requires people to lose so someone can win. Simple. ☯️ . #FIFAW #Fıfaworldcup #Spain #Argentina #Winners #Losers

⏳ The #time is always right to do the right thing. – Dr Martin Luther King Jr

❝ It is a pleasant affair to explore nature as well as oneself, not to commit violence to her nor one's soul, but to bring both into balance via gentle cross-fertilization ❞ — Goethe

The #Mind is so near itself -- it cannot see, distinctly -- and I have none to ask -- – Emily Dickinson, 15 April 1862

The #future, by definition, has no image. #History provides us with the means to imagine it. — Paul Valéry

Do you handle energy #vampires well? Any tips? Tricks ? #Narcissists, I've found, are particularly good at vampirism – drawing a victim close thru charismatic magnetism, then subtly pumping stolen vital force into their bodies.

Speaking of that which we shall not even speak, I for one find totally unspeakable the odious colors of new cars on the streets, particularly the warm hues – red, brown, alizarin crimson, et cetera etc &c.

From an instrument of Islamic modernism to a weapon of populist politics under Z.A. Bhutto, how did the Pakistani state re-engineer the ancient art of Qawwali? Nadeem Farooq Paracha explores the fascinating history of Pop Sufism. 👇 🔗 www.thefridaytimes.com/09-Jul-2026/... #Qawwali #NFAK #AzizMian

Soulmate Of The State: The Ideological Reinventions Of Qawwali

In the 1950s, the state introduced Qawwali to national radio to counter rising anti-modernity Islamist narratives

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Is the #StraitOfHormuz closed ? straits.live/is-the-strai... #Iran

BBC reported that, at the #NATO summit in #Turkey, speaking of the government of #Iran, #Trump declared "I don't want to deal with them anymore, they're scum ... They're sick people, they're led by sick people... As far as I'm concerned, it's over."

#Time dissipates to shining ether the solid singularity of facts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The raw resist the fire of love, sorrow, discipline, and longing. The cooked endure and eventually welcome it. The burned become it.” —Haleh Liza Gafori on Rumi's words & spiritual fire @worldlittoday.bsky.social worldliteraturetoday.org/2026/july/ra... #poetry #Islam #Sufism #writingcommunity

Raw, Cooked, Drunk: The Visionary Reach of Everyday Words in Rumi’s Poetry, by Haleh Liza Gafori

A contemporary translator shares excerpts from Rumi, who incorporated everyday words drawn from the Sufi lexicon as he addresses concerns ranging from materialism and warmongering to spiritual communi...

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You dig #Indianmusic ?  WKCR is playing Hariprasad Chaurasia until 6PM EST.  Free ambrosia ! www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/h... #raga #bansuri

"You are like a candle. Imagine you are sending light out all around you. All your words, thoughts and actions are going in many directions. If you say something kind, your kind words go in many directions, and you yourself go with them." Thich Nhat Hanh

“What would have to happen for me to concede that the United States is beyond hope?”

Poet Translator Playwright Sholeh Wolpe has begun writing essays – "about #love, #transformation, #poetry & the inner life—drawing on a lifetime spent between languages, cultures, religions & worlds. Here's the debut, 3-minute post. tinyurl.com/mpkbcbpe

The Fantasy of You

Sholeh Wolpé

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