I'm watching the Scarlet and the Black. It's based on a true story about the Catholic resistance in Italy during the 2nd World War.

It's a poignant tale of resistance, but also love, and hope, held even for those that wish to see you destroyed.

I highly recomend it. Gregory Peck, Christopher Plummer, you can't go wrong.

@Lindy Hi Buddy! How goes the day?

As another phase in another war begins to play out, I just want to say peace is possible and it starts with each of us.

@kendonnelly Thank you for joining me on the journey, groovy soul!

This dockworker strike I think is underscoring a wider issue.

It's gotten insanely difficult to make it in the world today. People can't live or survive on what they're making all the while the wealth is concentrating in the hands of fewer folk.

I'm not someone that identifies as either Liberal or conservative, but I am a student of history. We are entering a period that, without great change, things could grow far worse.

There's been a lot of things out of calibration. My sleep has been off, and especially in the last two weeks, something has seriously been out of calibration.

My recovery seems shot. Is this age? Am I fighting off a bug? Are aliens abducting me and putting me through my paces at night?

Who knows, but I'm going to watch this mindfully and make the best decisions I can.

Good morning groovy souls.

No gym today. I want to go, quite intently, I've been doing everything i can for the last four hours to try to get to a place where I can go run, but the body is just not there.

I know if I push this thing, it's going to break.

This has been happening the last few weeks, and I don't understand what it means, but I'm working through it as best I can.

Acceptance is not surrender but a path to overcoming the obstacle.

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GOod night groovy souls. It is time to rest for a while!

""A good mirror can only show a part of the sky. But it shows it with perfect clarity.

Warner, Brad. Hardcore Zen Strikes Again . Cooperative Press. Kindle Edition.""

Ok that is whizbang.

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I am dealing with a lot of motivational writers block.

A friend of mine told me he hated to live in uncertain times, but I realized as I thought about that, that the time one is in is always uncertain.

It's only the past that is certain, and even then, it will be interpreted.

We are all unreliable narrators.

@MLClark @AskTheDevil @Jorro @thewebrecluse The philosopher was Byung-Chul Han by the way and I think I'm going to get his work "The Crisis of Narration"

We are a community, and we sometimes have disagreements. There are people of all manner of ideologies and ways of life that are on here, from the traditional to the exceedingly eccentric. (Hi!)

Yesterday I had a very wide ranging discussion about free will and determinism with @MLClark @AskTheDevil @Jorro @thewebrecluse and others.

THough we are all quite different and we got quite deep, we were all respectful of each other and had a good chat.

That is community, and a very good one.

I was watching a youtube video that was a deep analysis of Tarantino's films over lunch, and it got into a wander, talking about the effect of social media on culture.

Most notably it cited a Korean philosopher who has spoken about Social Media being antithetical to the formation of true community, substituting community for random hits of attention.

Then I thought about Coso, which is in many ways the antithesis of social media.

Good morning groovy souls!

I got my full 2 hours in and covered 9 miles between the treadmill and the eliptical, then did a half hour of weights!

I'm doing 9:11 minute miles!