2023/10/31
These 3 Books Are Perfect for the Aspiring Witch
These 3 Books Are Perfect for the Aspiring Witch
WHEN YOU THINK of a witch, what do you picture? Maybe you imagine cool teenage girls like in Sabrina or The Craft or a sisterhood like in Practical Magic. Or do you see bubbling cauldrons and toads instead? As cool as pop culture witches are, that isn't what the modern concept of witchcraft has evolved into. It's about channeling and finding an outlet for your energy and intentions, honing your intuition, and reconnecting with nature.
New research reveals why people are afraid of clowns
New research reveals why people are afraid of clowns
creepy clown Halloween decoration. photo: Jennifer SandlinPhilip John Tyson, an Associate Professor of psychology at the University of South Wales, recently published an article about the fear of clowns, with colleagues Shakiela Davies, Sophie Scorey, and William James Greville.
The research that resulted in the article, titled "Fear of clowns: An investigation into the aetiology of coulrophobia," published in Frontiers of Psychology, sought to understand why some people—about five percent of Americans, according to a recent survey—are afraid of clowns. Tyson and his team found more than 500 people who are afraid of clowns and asked them a series of questions about their fears. The Washington Post provides an overview of the findings:
Todays Thought
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
-Natalie Clifford Barney, poet, playwright, and novelist (31 Oct 1876-1972)
2023/10/30
Todays Thought
He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
-James Boswell, biographer and lawyer (29 Oct 1740-1795)
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Todays Thought
None of us gets through life alone. We all have to look out for each other and lift each other up.
-Hillary Clinton, secretary of state and senator (b. 26 Oct 1947)
2023/10/25
Message from Councilwoman Ann O'Brien (Oct 20, 2023)
Message from Councilwoman Ann O'Brien
Regarding Cortez Park and I-17, we are partnering with the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) and the Phoenix Police Department to clean, sanitize, and clear encampments located under the I-17 and Cortez Park underpass. This is to address the concerns of public safety and hygiene. Measures are also being taken to address unwanted activities and public nuisances at the ramada in Cortez Park. This initiative will enhance our community’s safety and help diminish criminal activity in this area. Last, we are retrofitting lights and cameras in Cortez Park to improve security in the area. Additionally, there will be full night shift rangers and private security personnel to further enhance safety at the park. To clarify any confusion, the Metrocenter demolition project is well underway and was started in August. They are currently focusing on the interior portions of the structure before moving to the exterior. We will keep you updated on the progress and any potential impacts on our community.
2023/10/24
Todays Word
apanthropy
Tom Albrighton; One for Joy; ABC Business Communications; 2023.
Todays Thought
Inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.
-Brenda Ueland, journalist, editor, and writer (24 Oct 1891-1985)
2023/10/23
Todays Thought
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
-Emily Kimbrough, author and broadcaster (23 Oct 1899-1989)
Todays Thought
All one’s life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to be noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous. No one notices you. You achieve a wonderful freedom. It’s a positive thing. You can move about unnoticed and invisible.
-Doris Lessing, novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel laureate (22 Oct 1919-2013)
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Todays Thought
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
-Leigh Hunt, poet and essayist (19 Oct 1784-1859)
2023/10/18
Todays Thought
What I like in a good author isn't what he says, but what he whispers.
-Logan Pearsall Smith, essayist (18 Oct 1865-1946)
2023/10/17
Todays Thought
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
-Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist (17 Oct 1915-2005)
2023/10/16
A Song That Actually Uses Locrian
The modern (diatonic) modes on CIn music theory, the term mode or modus is used in a number of distinct senses, depending on context.
Todays Thought
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (15 Oct 1844-1900)
2023/10/13
The Whole of the Whole Earth Catalog Is Now Online
The Whole of the Whole Earth Catalog Is Now Online
A NEARLY COMPLETE digital library of Whole Earth publications—including the famed Whole Earth Catalog founded 55 years ago by counterculture icon Stewart Brand—has been made available online for the first time. A curious reader can now flip through all the old catalogs, magazines, and journals right in their web browser, or download entire issues to their computer free of charge.
The Whole Earth Catalog was the proto-blog—a collection of reviews, how-to guides, and primers on anarchic libertarianism printed onto densely packed pages. It carried the tagline “Access to Tools” and offered know-how, product reviews, cultural analysis, and gobs of snark, long before you could get all that on the internet...
Todays Thought
Billionaires need the working class. The working class does not need billionaires.
-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, US Congress member (b. Oct 13, 1989)
2023/10/11
2023/10/10
Know Yourself Better by Writing What Pops into Your Head
Know Yourself Better by Writing What Pops into Your Head
The exercise of writing down unfiltered thoughts enhances self-knowledge
For decades, physician and author Silke Heimes has been leading groups in therapeutic exercises to put thoughts and feelings down on paper. Heimes, a professor of journalism at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, points to abundant evidence that writing for five to 20 minutes a day can improve health, diminish stress, increase self-confidence and even kindle the imagination. A writing routine, she argues, is a form of mental hygiene that almost anyone can benefit from.
So how do you start? What happens if—as every writer fears—the page remains blank? And how do you get rid of an overcritical inner censor? Heimes, director of the Institute for Creative and Therapeutic Writing in Darmstadt, explains how to overcome inhibitions and open up your inner world...
Todays Thought
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
-Lin Yutang, writer and translator (10 Oct 1895-1976)
2023/10/09
Todays Thought
From everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living, nothing in my eyes is better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.
-Ivo Andric, novelist, Nobel laureate (9 Oct 1892-1975)
2023/10/08
Todays Thought
Be Happy
According to the older adults Pillemer interviewed, these are the most valuable things you can do with your time:
- Say things now to people you care about — whether it's expressing gratitude, asking for forgiveness, or getting information.
- Spend the maximum amount of time with your parents and children.
- Savor daily pleasures instead of waiting for "big-ticket items" to make you happy.
- Work in a job you love.
- Choose your mate carefully; don't just rush in.
The list of things they believed weren't worth their time was just as revealing.
- No one said that to be happy you should work as hard as you can to get money.
- No one said it was important to be as wealthy as the people around you.
- No one said you should choose your career based on its earning potential.
- No one said they regretted not getting even with someone who slighted them.
2023/10/06
Todays Question
Q: When is chaos better than order?
A1: A box full of k-cups works better for me than an under brewer storage drawer.
A2: ...
Saul Williams - List Of Demands(Reparations)
I'm down here drowning in your fat.
You got me on my knees praying for everything you lack.
I ain't afraid of you.
I'm just a victim of your fears.
You cower in your tower praying that I'll disappear,
On the stage or in the street, don't need no microphone or beat.
And when you hear this song, if you ain't dead then sing along.
Bang and strum to these here drums til you get where you belong.
I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand.
We're living hand to mouth!
See somebody?
Try and free somebody?
I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand.
We're living hand to mouth!
Hand to mouth!
I jumped up on my bed today and played it on a broom.
I didn't think that it would be a song that you would hear,
But when I played it in my head, I made you reappear.
Then I took your picture out and taped it to my heart.
I've taped you to my heart dear girl, I've taped you to my
Heart and if you pull away from me you'll tear my life apart.
I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand.
We're living hand to mouth!
See somebody?
Try and free somebody?
I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand.
We're living hand to mouth!
Hand to mouth!
We aim to remember what we choose to forget.
God's just a baby and her diaper is wet.
I'm strapped to the teeth and liable to disregard your every belief.
Call on the law!
I'm fixin' to draw a line between what is and seems and call up a brawl.
'Cause it's about to go pow!
I'm standing on the threshold of the ups and the downs.
'Cause I'm about to bust loose.
Protect ya neck,'cause, son, I'm breaking out of my noose.
I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand.
We're living hand to mouth!
See somebody?
Try and free somebody?
I ball my fist and you're gonna know where I stand.
We're living hand to mouth!
Hand to mouth!
Todays Thought
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
-George H. Lorimer, editor (6 Oct 1867-1937)
2023/10/05
A Scientific Feud Breaks Out Into the Open
A Scientific Feud Breaks Out Into the Open
For years now, Hakwan Lau has suffered from an inner torment. Lau is a neuroscientist who studies the sense of awareness that all of us experience during our every waking moment. How this awareness arises from ordinary matter is an ancient mystery. Several scientific theories purport to explain it, and Lau feels that one of them, called integrated information theory (IIT), has received a disproportionate amount of media attention. He’s annoyed that its proponents tout it as the dominant theory in the press. He’s disturbed by their apparent affinity with New Age figures, such as Deepak Chopra. Worst of all, he complains, the theory doesn’t even rise to the level of “science.”
How Circle the City is connecting Arizonans experiencing homelessness with health care
How Circle the City is connecting Arizonans experiencing homelessness with health care
John Finocchi said he had been keeping a careful eye on his sugar intake. He hadn’t had insulin in three weeks, and as a Type 1 diabetic, he knew he was at risk of serious complications.
Finocchi had been trying to fit a doctor’s visit into his schedule while living on the Human Services Campus in downtown Phoenix. He was starting to feel weak after limiting the foods he ate for some time.
These are the types of situations Circle the City’s mobile medical units are made for, staff said. The clinics, each outfitted with two medical bays in a truck, are stationed in different places around the Valley to provide medical assistance for people experiencing homelessness. Their goal is to make care easier to access for as many people as possible.
2023/10/04
Todays Thought
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
-Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th US president (4 Oct 1822-1893)
2023/10/03
This city’s residents have banded together to make a huge change to their front yards — and it’s saving them tons of money
Phoenix residents who want to save both money and water are replacing their moisture-guzzling grass with beautiful, low-maintenance desert plants, Business Insider reports.
The “anti-lawn movement” is a push to stop growing turf lawns and start growing plants suited to the local environment. It has grown in popularity in recent years as the western U.S. has struggled with drought, driving up the cost of water.
2023/10/02
Todays Thought
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
-Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, professor, attorney, and writer (1 Oct 1914-2004)
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