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"Often we treat certain aspects of ourselves as junk, having no value.
We try to throw parts of ourselves in the garbage.
But a human being is an ecosystem, and everything in that system is of value to the whole."
Stephen Schwartz

"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ...
and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life
and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something."
Sandra Day O'Connor

“There is beauty all around us,
and the light finds us when we realize,
we are all part of that beauty and worth the cherishing.
If we despise any, we journey to despise ourselves.
See all as beautiful, even if they choose to see themselves through you, as being less than so.
We have the power to see for each, and be the reflection of what they may yet see.”
- Tom Althouse

Loreena McKennitt- The Mummer's Dance

Trump Goes Low

Sniffing and glowering, Mr. Trump prowled behind Mrs. Clinton as she presented herself again as the only adult on stage, the only one seeking to persuade the great majority of Americans that she shares their values and aspirations. Mr. Trump, by contrast, fell back on the tricks he has learned from his years in pro wrestling and reality television, making clear how deep his cynicism goes....

When Mr. Trump so grandly accepted the Republican nomination in July, he said, “I have joined the political arena so that the powerful can no longer beat up on people that cannot defend themselves.” By then, though, he had already campaigned for months by beating up on vulnerable Americans, including minorities and the disabled. Only in recent days has the Republican establishment started to acknowledge the magnitude of his hypocrisy.

The videotape disclosed Friday provided gruesome evidence that the Republican standard-bearer has for years used his powerful status to prey on women. Other revelations followed, including that in 2005 he told Howard Stern on his radio show that, when he owned the Miss Universe pageant, he made a practice of “inspecting” naked contestants backstage. “You know, they’re standing there with no clothes. … And you see these incredible-looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that.”

Now, as he struggles to close the biggest deal of his lifetime, a woman is getting the better of him. That’s not surprising, but it is apt.

—New York Time Editorial Board, October 10, 2016

Republican Bigotry Was Useful Until Donald Trump Risked Losing White Women

Bigotry Bites Back: The racism that once served the GOP well is risking the party's future.
by John Stoehr

... It's well known that the Republican Party has pandered to the bigotry of reactionary politics since the 1960s when Richard Nixon, under the advisement of former Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond, invented with the help of advisers Roger Ailes and Kevin Phillips something called the Southern Strategy.

The Southern Strategy was a bundle of political messages and policy positions meant to appeal to segregationist Democrats alienated by their party's passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act. It started with Nixon's call for "law and order" in 1968. It was later used across the country.

Ronald Reagan's decrying of "welfare queens"; George H.W. Bush's "Willie Horton" attack ad; George W. Bush's spreading rumors that Arizona Sen. John McCain's adopted Bangladeshi daughter was an illegitimate black child; Newt Gingrich's claim in 2012 that Barack Obama is a "successful food stamp president" – all of these are a variation on the Southern Strategy theme.

A consequence of this has been the whitening of the Republican Party to such a degree that Trump's attacks on minorities and Muslims had no effect on actual Republicans. Conditions changed after the first debate when Clinton reminded everyone of Trump's fat-shaming of a teenaged beauty, but even then, the injury was to Trump alone, not on down-ticket Republicans.

But after the video emerged – which also showed Trump boasting of sexual advances toward a married woman who he later wanted fired from the Miss Universe contest due to her pregnancy – it was clear the support of middle-class white women was in jeopardy. That was enough for high-profile Republicans like McCain to rescind his endorsement. More telling, it was enough for House Republicans to follow suit, even calling for him to step down as the party's nominee....

From U.S. News, October 11, 2016

In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.

You dance inside my chest,
where no one sees you,

but sometimes I do,
and that sight becomes this art.

Drumsound rises on the air,
its throb, my heart.

A voice inside the beat says,
"I know you're tired,
but come. This is the way."

Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?
Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone?

Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups!
They swim the huge fluid freedom.

- Rumi, The Essential Rumi

Open your hands if you want to be held.

~ Rumi

"Man learns through experience,
and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences.
He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles,
and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process."

- Sai Baba