Ooooh, I want a bright shiny fire engine! Under the Christmas tree, please!
This is so good, Mary. I opened up all my tabs but came back to finish this first because you set me in the right frame of mind to respond elsewhere. Another way I've seen this phrased is that it's easier to lie big than to lie small. We will jump all over the gov…
Ooooh, I want a bright shiny fire engine! Under the Christmas tree, please!
This is so good, Mary. I opened up all my tabs but came back to finish this first because you set me in the right frame of mind to respond elsewhere. Another way I've seen this phrased is that it's easier to lie big than to lie small. We will jump all over the gov't for election fraud but 911 is beyond our ken to think they could be complicit in. It's been shocking to me that people don't see the sky that's in front of them, but how many years did I go without noticing those odd unnatural trails that didn't dissipate?
When we read that quote from Hitler, we're likely to hear it as an instruction manual for propaganda. But that's because we can't comprehend that they could possibly lie to us about the world wars, completely inverting the heroes and villains, good and evil. And that Hitler was talking about what was being done TO Germans, not what he intended to do.
I love your recognition that we're feeling a joy and excitement that's bigger than we know, bigger than we can comprehend, as Kathleen's comment says so eloquently. That means a lot to me in understanding how to go forward.
Shiny red fire engines are just magical. My kids each had one of their birthday parties at the firehouse (complete with tours of the engine by Peter and a 3-D fire engine chocolate cake I baked and decorated -- talk about sublimated creativity!!)
You give excellent examples of our blindness to the big stuff while we're screaming about the small stuff. And wow -- I was just talking about Hitler today and the opinions that are coming to the surface about him. I do not know what to think, but by god, these are fascinating times!
Ooooh, I want a bright shiny fire engine! Under the Christmas tree, please!
This is so good, Mary. I opened up all my tabs but came back to finish this first because you set me in the right frame of mind to respond elsewhere. Another way I've seen this phrased is that it's easier to lie big than to lie small. We will jump all over the gov't for election fraud but 911 is beyond our ken to think they could be complicit in. It's been shocking to me that people don't see the sky that's in front of them, but how many years did I go without noticing those odd unnatural trails that didn't dissipate?
When we read that quote from Hitler, we're likely to hear it as an instruction manual for propaganda. But that's because we can't comprehend that they could possibly lie to us about the world wars, completely inverting the heroes and villains, good and evil. And that Hitler was talking about what was being done TO Germans, not what he intended to do.
I've also talked about The Four Agreements, which came in mighty handy when my daughter almost cut me out of her wedding planning over ugly steak knives: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-four-agreements.
I love your recognition that we're feeling a joy and excitement that's bigger than we know, bigger than we can comprehend, as Kathleen's comment says so eloquently. That means a lot to me in understanding how to go forward.
Shiny red fire engines are just magical. My kids each had one of their birthday parties at the firehouse (complete with tours of the engine by Peter and a 3-D fire engine chocolate cake I baked and decorated -- talk about sublimated creativity!!)
You give excellent examples of our blindness to the big stuff while we're screaming about the small stuff. And wow -- I was just talking about Hitler today and the opinions that are coming to the surface about him. I do not know what to think, but by god, these are fascinating times!
Ugly steak knives?? 😂
Big hugs... xox