I have a policy on Sundays now. Only happy thoughts. If the world totally goes to hell today, oh well, Monday to Saturday I tried to help keep it from happening. (I also write Humanity’s Future on Substack.)
Today my cats and I are in the garden. Wishing you a wonderful Sunday. Talk again next week. 🙂
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From HartHaiku Vol. 1 / HarteBooks.com
This week I am offering my humorous satire story The Day Humanity Decided as a free read. If you’d like a copy, please download it at the link here.
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Changing the world hinges on you somewhat, but not necessarily in ways that you might think. Someone once told me that sometimes we have to change things from the outside first, and sometimes we have to start from the inside. As crazy as it might sound to you, I believe the current state of the world calls for the latter.
I wrote the content of this ebook in 2021, and it has received some minor revisions and a different cover than the original. But, the essential message is the same, and in a more focused way. Allowing yourself to claim your human potential, and therefore your own happiness, not only frees your own soul for its own fulfillment, but you also help to transform the world around you.
If you are reading this today, and would like a free copy, I invite you to download Becoming Bigger: In a world that wants to keep you small. The link is here. It’s about a 25-minute read.
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I watched Out of Africa again yesterday. Love that story, perhaps because it is based on the real-life memoir by Isak Dinesen (the pen name of Danish author Karen Blixen). Africa was her great adventure. I remember a long time ago, a high school teacher asked our class if we could travel anywhere, where would it be? Some of my classmates wanted to go to the next town, the next province, the country next door. I put my hand up and said, “Africa”.
Pregnant pause; the teacher looked at me like I was from Mars. I guess I dreamed bigger than most, because I read voraciously as a child and teenager, and books were seeding big dreams in me.
Fast forward to now, and I have traveled and lived in various parts of the world. But, I have yet to see Africa. It’s important to keep one dream unspent for a while, I think. It gives one something to aim for. 🙂
Some day I hope Africa and I will learn a song of each other:
“If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?” ~ Isak Dinesen
Of course, watching the movie this time was tinged with a some sadness with the death of Robert Redford just 4 days ago. The character he played in Out of Africa, Deny Finch Hatton – Karen Blixen’s love – was killed in a plane crash before she left Africa. Denys was buried in the Ngong Hills. Later when back in Denmark, Karen wrote this about some correspondence she received about his grave site:
“‘The Masai have reported to the District Commissioner at Ngong, that many times, at sunrise and sunset, they have seen lions on Finch Hatton’s grave in the the Hills. A lion and lioness have come there, and stood, or lain, on the grave for a long time…After you went away, the ground round the grave was leveled out, into a sort of big terrace. I suppose that the level place makes a good site for the lions, from there they can have a view over the plain, the cattle and game on it.’
Denys will like that. I must remember to tell him.”
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