I’m very sorry to hear of your housing troubles. GFM is widely used. An alternative many writers and other artists receive donation support with is buymeacoffee.com. Lots of coffee-size donations add up.
All the best and much good medicine to you!💟☮️🦅

“Relativ klein”??

No Kings protests against Trump draw huge crowds across the country
Maegan Vazquez, Katie Tarrant and Kim Bellware, Oct 18, 2025
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

💔😢 Every human getting killed is an entire universe being lost. May she have a safe journey beyond this world and find a place of peace, love, and joy!
And may you yourself be safe, stay strong, and be able to bear witness and keep the stories coming.🤞🤞🍀🍀🍀

💯% agreed. For those who like to play partisan politics with public health, viruses, bacteria and parasites are not partisan and will infect and affect you +/- your loved ones as equal opportunity invaders, no matter what your political leanings are, when there aren’t enough to form herd immunity.

Nürnberg (English: Nuremberg)

It again depends what stories and narratives we listen to and reflect on - or unthinkingly absorb - and then take action on. Before that, we do well if we are following Einstein’s dictum, “The important thing is to not stop questioning.”😊

The recognition depends on the attitude and wisdom of the beholder. Too many forget that ultimately, we all are one family originating from Africa and arrived after a long, arduous journey we or our ancestors made. That deeper understanding brings more kindness and respect.😊
pbs.org/video/human-...

🙏 TYVM for the birthday reminder of one of (surprisingly) America’s bestselling poets!
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Let the beauty we love be what we do.
Love is the bridge between you and everything.
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
— Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī, translated by Coleman Barks

👍👍 Correct. By chance or not, @pkrugman.bsky.social pointed this out today in detail.

Fossil Fuels and Fossilized Minds
What’s driving the doomed attempt to revive coal?
Paul Krugman, Substack, Sept 30, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
#climatecrisis #climatechange #430ppm #energytransition

My $0.02: The only way money can buy you happiness is by giving it away to those in greater need so they survive and can thrive. On the contrary, greed for money achieves the opposite since it narrows the mind and precludes generosity and empathetic joy, both prerequisites for happiness and grace.

"I'm sorry, where's my change?" said the Zen master.

"Brother," said the vendor, "change comes from within."

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hide...

A Zen master was visiting London. He went up to a hot dog vendor and said, "Make me one with everything."
The vendor fixed up a hot dog with fried onions, gherkins, and mustard and handed it to the Zen master, who paid with a £20 note. The vendor put the note in his register and snapped it shut.

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell