a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space.   ~~~~~ Context John Woodrow Cox observes (WAMU's 1A): "The truth is that school shootings are rare. What's not rare, especially in kids' minds, is the imminent threat of a school shooting."  Cox, in a short audio clip from an … Continue reading “Barney’s bullet” gun safety →

a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space.       It's visceral, not intellectual The dust has not even settled from the massacre in Buffalo on May 14th - last week's missive. Now, Uvalde, Texas, and another school shooting (the 27th in 2022!). Tragically, it was an … Continue reading Oh, no! Uvalde! Why?! →

a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space.     Mass shooting by White supremacist racist  I'm thinking of an earlier piece entitled: It’s déjà vu again again again. As hard as it is for me to believe it, that was two years ago! It was then that … Continue reading “White” replacement? →

a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space.     Proximate context - stoking "culture wars" I'm writing this piece today in response to Kansas U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, who waded into the culture wars [again] yesterday [5/4/22] and essentially demanded the right to discriminate, i.e., requesting changes … Continue reading Putin’s lgbtq anti-“wokeness”? →

a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space.   Housekeeping note:     ~~~~~ Politics and strange bedfellows In this short piece I show how Russian president Vladimir Putin appears to be in an unlikely ideological coalition with a U.S. social justice movement. Please allow me to explain. … Continue reading Vladimir Putin’s “wokeness”? →

a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space.   Masks? Well, I am thinking of our human personalities as a mask. Obviously, our own such mask is known by each of us subjectively from the inside and by others objectively from the outside.     Spirituality 101 Parsing … Continue reading masks aside →

a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space.       "For our children" Echoes of QAnon.  Last week, I said that "It’s in plain sight and it’s hidden" i.e., Putin's criminal aggression and his gaslighting. I also previewed:  ". . . if one steps back, it becomes … Continue reading Ukrainian genocide?! (pt. 3) →

a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space.   Russia attacks Ukraine Tick-tock... in long broad strokes In an essay from July 2021, Russian president Vladimir Putin began to claim that the nation "Ukraine" is a made-up entity, that it has no basis in historical reality without Russia's … Continue reading Ukrainian genocide?! (pt. 2) →

a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space.   Genocide?! You be the judge Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has said, without equivocation, that Russia has committed genocide in Ukraine. Genocide is a very specific kind of war crime. "Genocide" has been so oft used as an attention-grabbing designation … Continue reading Ukrainian genocide?! →

a mystical möbius — curating facts, ideas, text, and media to create a contemplative space. . ~~~~~ Housekeeping Previously regarding Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine: March 6, Putin’s criminal aggression; March 13, Two things can be true at once; March 20, Another Apocalypse? Already?! [Note: the March 6 piece includes a list of information resources. I … Continue reading War’s new frontier →