Morning Ritual — 2.2.22

Don’t put it back like it was.
You are responsible for the energy you bring. And you are responsible for the energy you allow.
While most everything in her life came to a standstill, up in the air, there was still a lot going on.
It wasn’t just a coup. It was an attempt to kill the president, the prime minister and all the Cabinet.
There were no such gray areas for White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who compared his comments to “when the fox is screaming from the top of the henhouse that he’s scared of the chickens.”
China vowed to “create a civilized, healthy, festive and auspicious online atmosphere for public opinion.”
As a nation, we’ve been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn’t approve of them.
It’s a pretty startling phenomenon here … to see book bans back in style, to see efforts to press criminal charges against school librarians.
Why are our libraries filled with pornography?
Freedom of expression, assembly, and association are cornerstones of democracy, but Nazi symbolism, racist imagery, and desecration of war memorials are not.
I’d like to see the court have a little more balance, some common sense on it,” Graham said. “Everybody doesn’t have to be from Harvard or Yale. It’s OK to go to a public university and get your law degree.”
Iguanas are cold-blooded. They slow down or become immobile when temps drop into the 40s. They may fall from trees, but they are not dead.
I grew up with Frankenstein and was always intrigued by the creature, especially the sense of feeling alone,’ he says. ‘He just wanted to be loved. The stories of the other, of feeling alone I’ve been drawn to.
Even though diamonds can in fact be shattered, chipped, discolored, or incinerated to ash, the concept of eternity perfectly captured the magical qualities that the advertising agency wanted to attribute to diamonds.
“How bad was it? It’s been crazy,” one teacher explained.
Knowing there is no magic pill or perfect program might be the magic pill or perfect program.
You don’t have to change your life to change your life.
When you have high self-efficacy, you believe that you can do the thing. Whatever the thing is. You just know you will do it.
You’re not going to arrive somewhere and be happy for the rest of your life. Sorry.
The faux “wokeness” exhibited by corporations around the holidays of marginalized people will always ring disingenuous to me.
Likewise, there is a difference between misinformation, in which one is unaware that what is being said is false, versus disinformation, which is knowingly false and intended to mislead and sway public opinion.
I don’t like it, therefore no one gets it.
From that day forward, I was cast out. The teachers glared at me, shaking their heads and whispering under their breath. None of the kids would play with me.
Weird society we’ve built here.
I was sick, fainting in the smell of teabags,
when you came with tomatoes, a good poetry.
I am being wooed. I am being conquered
by a cliff of limestone that leaves chalk on my breasts.
You should be serious about what you do because this is it — this is the only life you’ve got.
People make mistakes, but human mistakes don’t always have to be lethal.
This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.