Purrington’s, Portland’s Only Cat Cafe, Has Cute Cats and Surprisingly Good Snacks.

Man dressed as the Joker injures 17 people on Tokyo train

The setting sun wil awlays set me to right.. or if a Sparrow come before my Window I take part in its existence and pick about the Gravel. - John Keats

The video game platform Roblox says it's back online after outage

Hong Kong seizes record US$154 mn in luxury goods headed to China

Fleeing chaos, Afghan family finds open arms and a home in Portland’s Cully neighborhood
She barely made it out of Kabul. Now she's welcoming Afghans with a familiar meal.
To support refugees arriving in the Northwest
Afghan refugees coming to Vancouver Washington is receiving the fourth-highest number of Afghan refugees out of the initial group nationwide. California will see 5,200 refugees, while 4,400 will go to Texas and 1,800 will go to Oklahoma, according to State Department data reported by The Associated Press. Oregon is slated to welcome 180 refugees.
Newly arrived Afghans test a refugee resettlement system that's rebuilding on the fly
EXCLUSIVE: Governors have questions about Afghan refugees. Here's who they call

2 Filipino American NBA players faced off Thursday night, a league first
'Dune' appropriates Islamic, Middle Eastern tropes without real inclusion, critics say
Biden makes 2 key, boundary-breaking FCC nominations

Solar flare means the Northern Lights may be seen in the PNW this weekend
Aurora borealis may be hidden over mainland US, but the northern lights could put on a show in other countries

California Condors reproduce without a male. A first.
California condors: Virgin births discovered in critically endangered birds
Elephants have evolved to be tuskless because of ivory poaching, a study finds

Oregon’s biggest city has ‘long way to go’ repairing its rep
A Trash Hauler’s Notion to Place Dumpsters Near Homeless Camps is Rebuffed by City Hall—Which Has Another Plan

Think of your triggers as ghosts from your experiential and ancestral history. They are ghosts who have not yet found their peace. They want to—that’s why they keep showing up in your life—but they need your help. They need you to get in close, and listen as they share their unresolved past with you. They need you to see them, in just the same way you want to be seen. If you keep ignoring them, they won’t go away. They will just show up more often. And your life will become a kind of ghost-fulfilling prophecy, one where every choice you make will haunt your days. Perhaps its time that we accepted that we are the haunted house that we fear. In each room, a ghost that is ready to be liberated. In the basement, the unconscious that is ready to be revealed. We don’t need to give ourselves candy on Halloween. We just need to give ourselves permission to heal. That’s the sweetest gift of all. - Jeff Brown

Detainees who earned just $1 a day are owed $17 million in back pay, a jury says

Air Force is first to face troops’ rejection of vaccine mandate as thousands avoid shots via Washington Post
Air Force is first to face troops' rejection of vaccine mandate as thousands avoid shots via yahoo
NYC firefighters protest at the mayor's home over vaccine mandate as deadline looms
Trash piles up as vaccination deadline looms for NYC workers
California In-N-Out shut down over vaccine mandate
Judge rejects pilots' bid to block Southwest's vaccine mandate
NHL announces that all but 4 players are vaccinated
Anger in U.S. Customs and Border Protection as Biden administration’s vaccine mandate looms ESPN anchor Sage Steele is off the air after her comments on vaccines and Obama
ESPN's Sage Steele apologizes for controversial comments about Obama's racial identity and vaccine mandates

See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see. - Dr. Waynee Dyer

Darkness is lack of light as sin is lack of love. It has no uniqiue property of its own. It is an example of scarity belief, from wich only error can proceed. Truth is always abundant. - unknown

Vibrate at the highest frequency of love. - unknown

【甲亢】一文認識甲狀腺亢進成因、症狀、食療、飲食原則

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future, and leave their own bright patterns as they go. - Fred Rogers

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing. - Eckhart Tolle

It's hard to turn the page when you know someone won't be in the next chapter, but the story must go on. - unknown

There is a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it. - Fred Rogers

Vancouver Public Schools paraeducators back strike if no deal is reached

We find comefort among Don’t dim your light to please other people. - unknown

Don't stop shining to please other people. - Unknown

With his new show, Jorge Gutierrez wants Latino kids to know: 'You come from heroes'

"Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody, 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I'd just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now." - Tom Waits
"We Have A Deficit Of Wonder Right Now"

Iowa approves jobless benefits for people who were fired for being unvaccinated
Worn-out nurses hit the road for better pay, stressing hospital budgets — and morale
Teachers Are Barely Hanging On. Here’s What They Need.

A Texas lawmaker is targeting 850 books that he says could make students feel uneasy
A Texas school district bans boys from wearing long hair. Now, some students are suing.
In one Texas district, teachers were told to give 'opposing' views of the Holocaust

With the latest payout, former Sheriff Joe Arpaio has cost Arizona taxpayers $100M

The real work isn't trying to change people. It's speaking your truth. It's sharing your feelings and syaing what you need. Because the purpose of being assertive and cultivating self- care isn't to convince someone to be different or to try to achieve a certain ourcome. It's to advocate for yourself, regardless of how they respond. - Dantell Koepke

Dems punt House infrastructure vote in blow to Biden agenda
Senate Democrats unveil a plan for a new tax on billionaires
Additional Medicare, Medicaid benefits may be whittled or cut as Democrats woo moderates
Financial catastrophe looms as Congress works to address the country's debt ceiling
Big changes in White House ideas to pay for $2 trillion plan
White House drops free community college from its spending bill

Maybe it's not the dept of intimacy in converstaions that maters. Maybe it doesn't even matter whether couples agree or disagree. Maybe the important thing is how these people pay attention to each other, not mater what they're talking about or doing. - Dr. John Gottman

Number of bills passed by Hong Kong’s opposition-free legislature more than doubles, as president rejects ‘rubber-stamp’ claims
‘Premature, unnecessary’: Tiananmen Massacre activist hits back as Hong Kong gov’t strikes vigil group from Companies Registry
3 months in prison for Hong Kong activist Figo Chan over 2019 demo, bringing total jail term to nearly 2 years
Hong Kong police welfare fund received over HK$130 million in donations over past year
Hong Kong man died of pneumonia days after he was denied adequate clothing during police detention, watchdog reveals
Hong Kong rights lawyer Chow Hang-tung invokes Tiananmen Massacre ‘tank man’ at trial
3 months in prison for Hong Kong activist Figo Chan over 2019 demo, bringing total jail term to nearly 2 years
【DQ 區議員】新西宣誓鄺俊宇等 16 人無效　至今 326 民主派議員失議席
Hong Kong police complaints body accuses press group of airing misinformation over misconduct investigations
News outlet Macau Concealers closes and deletes content, blames ‘unprecedented environmental changes’
That fact sheet on US interference in Hong Kong affairs – why now?
Hong Kong’s new rules on accessing gov’t records put journalists at ‘unnecessary’ risk, press group says
Legal aid reform: Critics fear right to choose lawyer will be undermined but Hong Kong gov’t advisor says plan will be ‘fairer’
Hong Kong’s witchfinders are making ‘national security’ an all-purpose offence
Self-exiled Hong Kong democrat Ted Hui faces four more charges after failing to show up to court
Hong Kong to set up elderly priority queues and quarantine polling stations for legislative polls in Dec

Love has feet that walk it through time...

"Twin flames" is one of the most dangerous delusional terms in the spiritual world. It refltects an undgrounded tendency, and often attracts New Cagers with very poor boundaries, who desperately want to believe that unhealthy relationship is soul-sponsored. Maybe it is, but that doesn't mean it is healthy or sustainable. The moment someone sayd they are in a "twin-flame" relationship I suggest that they buy a fire extinguisher and a burn kit. Because thye are going to need them. What we need now are soul connections that are centered, grounded, sustainable, mature. Love has feet that walk it through time. - Jeff Brown, Hearticulations

Hong Kong passes bill to censor films ‘contrary’ to China’s national security – HK$1m fine, 3 years jail for offenders
Showcase for stupidity: how politics plagued Hong Kong’s Standard Chartered marathon
UK bank Standard Chartered declines to say if it supports free speech in Hong Kong after marathon runners targeted
【渣打馬拉松】「香港加油」成禁語　跑手被要求更衣、遮紋身　大會 7 度稱「不希望涉政治」避答
「香港加油」四字成禁賽理由　渣馬：體育不涉政治因素，其他問題一律無補充

Opinion | A Farewell to Readers, With Hope

Bellevue’s boom: City’s tech industry is poised to eat Seattle’s lunch

Lam- V is what I wanted, nah.. not happened 7 year ago.

A Patriarchal Tradition That Just Won’t Budge

May Love be the tracher that shows us what beauty really means. - unknown

it does happen...

People empty me. I have to get away to refill. - Charles Bukowski

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." - Albert Camus

Giving our children the freedom of define their own version of success, instead of what society considers " successful, " is one of the more empowering gifts we can give the next generationn. - unknown

Be sure that in yoru educating that you are not manufacturing obedient citizens, but reather unleashing powerful creative souls. - Vince Gowman

What if the point were not to know as much as possible but to feel as much as possible? What if every day, come sun, rain, snow, heat, or cold, we pledged to find a gree, small or tall, straight or curved, leafed or not, and we saw with our back against its trunk for no less than a dozen minutes? What if we thought we could feel the tree breathing? What if we actually could? And finally what if we taight our children accordingly? - Ben Hewitt

Howl's Moving Castle

Remains found in California desert identified as Lauren Cho, missing New Jersey woman

Can the Fed help solve climate change?
Once again, the U.S. has failed to take sweeping climate action. Here's why
Climate change is a risk to national security, the Pentagon says
Carbon fee on the table for climate policy -Biden adviser
Biden emissions pledge hanging by a thread after Manchin's climate change budget cut
Dems scramble for climate Plan C as Manchin dashes their dreams
White House does not rule out carbon tax despite Manchin comment
Manchin has a message for Sanders: Don't blame me
It's Manchin vs. Sanders in infrastructure spat
Bernie’s Tax the Rich Bluff Just Got Called by His Fellow Dems

Netflix show 'Maid' based on the life memoir of a woman living in Port Townsend

Can what happened to you stop you from being fair, high-minded, moderate, conscientious, unhasty, honest, moral, self- reliant? So then, whenever something happends that made caues you distress, remember to reply on this principle: this is not bad luck, but bearing it valiantly is good luck. - Marcus Aruelius

Bolsonaro may face criminal charges for botching COVID response over ‘false dilemma’
Brazil senate wants Bolsonaro charged with crimes against humanity for COVID response

A cyberattack paralyzed every gas station in Iran
China-linked hacking group accessing calling records worldwide, CrowdStrike says
The Russian hacker group behind the SolarWinds attack is at it again, Microsoft says
Sinclair Broadcast Group says it suffered a ransomware attack and has had data stolen
Media,hacking,Business,cybersecurity,Data,ransonware,Privacy,Tech, Microsoft reports Iranian hackers targeting US, Israeli defense companies

570,000 without power in New England as nor'easter batters East Coast
New York and New Jersey declare emergencies as heavy rain soaks the region
Power outages continue in Northwest following wind storm
'Take this seriously': New York, New Jersey declare emergencies as California 'bomb cyclone' storms move east
Portland Has Nearly Made Up Its Rain Deficit for the Year

Belgian town residents have alarming levels of toxic chemical in their blood

Every sunset brins the promise of a new dawn. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

LOVE IS IN EVERYONE

LOVE IS IN EVERYONE
Love is in all. The difference is in its width.
It's like a flame that illuminates the sense of being: small at first, but expanding further and further.
It starts with leading to love only oneself as you ′′ feel ′′ only yourself.
Then it spreads to people who can satisfy our needs as sparks that go back into the flame of their own selfishness, to still spread to understand them and then start giving to them unconditionally: ′′ they are us ", and ′′ we are them ".
Matter is always divided, but the spirit feels this truth of identification that the senses translate into a feeling we call empathy.
Then this feeling-love still expands to all that is manifestation of life.
This last aspect, reminds me of the words of St. Francis, with his ′′ creature s' song ", wonderful poem of universal love.
I mean that, in my opinion, no one exists without love. For small or weak, it's in everyone, and it's the same internal nature of the Absolute. - Umberto Ridi

Cigarette sales went up last year for the first time in 20 years

Sometimes, all you need is for someone just tobe there, even if they can't solve your problems. Just knowing there is someone who cares can make all the difference. - unknown

Some fast-food items contain plastics linked to serious health problems, new report shows

Friends with Benefits

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. - Rumi

Texas' new law restricts transgender athletes' participation on school sports teams
Abbott signs bill limiting transgender youth participation on public school sports teams
Gov. Greg Abbott signs Texas bill restricting transgender participation in school sports

The U.S. is set to appeal the U.K.'s refusal to extradite WikiLeaks' Assange
A Court In Ecuador Has Stripped Julian Assange Of His Citizenship

Why Puerto Rico leads the U.S. in COVID vaccine rate — and what states can learn
Louisiana governor lifts indoor mask mandate except for K-12 schools
U.S. COVID infection rates have been dropping, but that could change
Puerto Rico is the most vaccinated place in the U.S.
Arizona's pandemic outlook worries experts as mask and vaccine mandate battles rage
Clark County reports 22 new COVID-19 deaths as disease activity remains high
As schools deal with staffing shortages, district leaders think up incentives
Washington state schools using historic amount of federal aid to operate during pandemic

Frances Haugen took thousands of Facebook documents: This is how she did it
America 'on fire': Facebook watched as Trump ignited hate
Five points for anger, one for a ‘like’: How Facebook’s formula fostered rage and misinformation
The Facebook Papers: What you need to know about the trove of insider documents
Facebook dithered in curbing divisive user content in India
EXPLAINER: Just what are ‘The Facebook Papers,’ anyway?
People or profit? Facebook papers show deep conflict within
Facebook's language gaps weaken screening of hate, terrorism
IMark Zuckerberg Let False Anti-Abortion Video Back On Facebook To Mollify GOP: ReportMark Zuckerberg Let False Anti-Abortion Video Back On Facebook To Mollify GOP: Report
Facebook name-change alone would miss the point
Facebook groups push people to 'extreme interests', says whistleblower Frances Haugen
Oversight Board slams Facebook for giving special treatment to high-profile users
Facebook plans to change its name, says The Verge
You’ve decided to quit Facebook. Here’s how to migrate your online life elsewhere.
Facebook expands harassment policy to protect public figures

You past may have built you but it never reduced you, it never spoiled your potential, it only ever added to it, it only ever made you stronger, more deserving of a love that loves you back. - Bianca Sparacino

One has to shut off that nagging part of the mind and go on without it with bravo and philosophy. - Sylvia Plath

4 takeaways from the Senate child safety hearing with YouTube, Snapchat and TikTok
Regulators at the F.D.A. say the Pfizer vaccine’s benefits outweigh the key risks for 5- to 11-year-olds.
Teen Girls Are Developing Tics. Doctors Say TikTok Could Be a Factor.
Pediatricians say the mental health crisis among kids has become a national emergency
A pediatrician weighs in on the White House's vaccine plan for young kids
The U.S. is ready to roll out the COVID vaccine once it's approved for kids age 5-11

A reckoning: St. Benedict nuns apologize for Native boarding school

Why are so many Americans quitting their jobs?
A FL Worker Applied to 60 Jobs to Show Employers Are Driving US “Labor Shortage”
Why are so many Americans quitting their jobs?
A worker in Florida applied to 60 entry-level jobs in September and got 1 interview

Scientists used a tiny brain implant to help a blind teacher see letters again

Make your heart the prettiest thing about you. - unknown

We've all heard we shouldn't judge, meaning we shouldn't condemn people because we never know thw whole story. But it's important not to judge the "positive" way, either. Such as making excuses or inventing stories that only allow for th egood in people to exist in our minds. Why? Because doing that blinds you to people who may be giving off red flags fo harmful behavior. That will only shock and hurt you later. It's best to suspend judgement. Ask. Observe. Ask again. Allow time to unfold the doubtful circumstances, and seek the truth of situation; not solely the bad or the good, but the reality of both. - Doe Zantamata

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. - Janis Joplin

The love you find within youself will be yours forever. - Bianca Sparacino

Things take the time they take. Don't worry. - Mary Oliver

You will never get any more out of life than you expect. - Bruce Lee

If you can fall in love again and again.. if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical ... you've got it half licked. - Henry Miller

Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course. - Kahlil Gibran

Being happy is a very personal thing,
And it really has nothing to do with anyone else. - Spiritual Awakenings ॐ

Life is so ironic. It takes sadness to know what happiness, noise to appreciate silence, and absence to value presence. - unknown

Love yourself instead of loving the idea of other people lovng you. - unknown

I can't promise to fix all of your problems, but I can promise that you won't have to face them alone. - unknown


It is always the same with all the pursuits to which I begin to devote myself; they grow upon me, become a passion, and soon I see nothing else in the world but my favorite amusement. - Jean Jacques Rousseau

Stop measuring yourself by the same yardstick that has been used to beat you. - @drbrowne

If you have a feeling that's telling you to do somehting, but you're seekign a sign outside of you to confirm the intuitive feeling, the intuitive feeling is the sign. YOu are not looking for a sign, you are looking for courage to follow your intuition. - unknown

What is broken can be mended. what hurts can be healed. And no matter how dark it gets, the sun is going to rise again. - unknown

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking. - Marianne Williamson

It's one thing to find your 'center' while detaching from the world. It's a whole other thing to find it at the heart of the world. For years, I left the world to find my 'self'. This was an essential step, because I was not yet self-connected enough to find my center in the heart of society. I was too light, too soft, too traumatized. But then I came to realize that if I couldn't hold to my center in the world, then I didn't have much of a center. If all it took was a few days in the marketplace, on urban streets, dealing with humanity, before I had to run back to the woods, to find myself... then what had I found?

A very fragile, hollow center. So the work continued this time in the world itself. No easy feat, because of my trauma history, but the truest work I have ever done. Because now, I can sit in the middle of hell, and feel my core. Because now I can stand amid the fires of distraction, and sustain my focus. Its one thing to find your center while hiding from the world. It's quite another to find it in the heart of the everything. Because the wholly grail is YOU, unstoppably solid in the heart of the madness. - Jeff Brown, Hearticulations

Simplicity is the beauty of nature and silence is its fragrance. - unknown

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. - unmknown

I have no other wish than a close fusion with Nature and I desire no other fate than to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws. - Claude Monet

It’s good to be with someone who has been through hell— life is hard, and strange, and a lot of shit happens. And when someone’s been through the worst of it already, pain doesn’t come as much of a surprise, they just sit down tie their shoelaces wave to old demons, and get on with it. - Atticus

There is always a glimmer in those who have been through the dark. - Atticus

Kindness doesn't need to be seen or heard to be understood. It is felt.. by the heart. - unknown

Life is as simple as we allow it to be. - unknown

You deserved to feel love on both good and bad days. - Atticus

I hope that you become so filled with happiness that it heals every single part of you. - unknown

Squid Game: Debt, decisions, and the paradox of thrift
South Koreans are bemused by the global success of “Squid Game”
Yes, South Korea’s debt crisis as depicted in Squid Game is real and contributes to a high suicide rate
Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ Has Parents Asking: Should You Let Your Kids Watch?
The one ‘Squid Game’ Korean Easter egg that’s leaving fans devastated
Feel like you're missing something in 'Squid Game'? Here's a rundown
Illegal streams, merch bonanza: Squid Game craze hits China

Prosecutors cannot call those shot by Kyle Rittenhouse 'victims,' a judge has ruled

France looted treasures from West Africa 130 years ago. Now 26 prized artifacts are going back to Benin.

'Saturday Night Live' has had seven Bidens. It still has no idea how to parody him.

Understand that forgiving them doesn't depend on their apology.
Forgiving them means that their actions don't control you anymore.
It means that you see them as humans who've treated you from their own level of maturity, and awarenss.
Tour ability to see that helps you take way from their power over you. - Najwa Zebian

You may never get that apology. And the healing begins when you can accept that. - Vex King

Rising Prices, Once Seen as Temporary, Threaten Biden's Agenda
Truckers, port workers vent as supply chain frustration mounts: 'A lot of us are willing to work'/a>
Why The Global Supply Chain Is Still Clogged — And How To Fix It

Oregon businesses feel the pain of supply chain delays
America isn't running out of everything just because of a supply-chain crisis. America is running out of everything because Americans are buying so much stuff.
'Containergeddon': Supply crisis drives Walmart and rivals to hire their own ships
There Is No Shortage of Reasons for the Broken Supply Chain
Home Depot executive says chartering ships to sidestep the supply-chain crisis 'started as a joke.' Now it's a critical lifeline for decorations, plumbing supplies, heaters, and more

Empathy

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilier, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet, if we have problems with our friends, or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no rasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that your understand, you can love, and the situation will change. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Empathy has no script. There is no right way or wrong way to do it. It's simply listening, holding space, withholding judgement, emotionally connecting, and communicating that incredibly healing message of ' You are not alone. " - Brene Brown

“Learning and excelling isn’t just about the ability to take in the content at school. It’s about feeling supported by people who believe in you. It’s about feeling a sense of safety and a sense of belonging at school.” - Dr. Charissa Wong

Here Comes the Pun: 330 Jokes for Kid

So many "child behavior problems" are actually problems related to adults having unrealistic expectations of children. - Rachel Samson

Record rainfall drenches drought-stricken California and douses wildfires
A historic storm brings heavy rain, flooding and mud flows to Northern California
The Mighty Mangrove
Floods threaten to shut down a quarter of U.S. roads and critical buildings
Flood insurance rates are spiking for many, to account for climate risk
California wildfire balloons to 13,400 acres, jumps major highway
The Alisal Fire is rapidly growing near Santa Barbara
California fires may have killed hundreds of giant sequoias
Hundreds of giant sequoias may have burned to death in KNP Complex, Windy fires
California fires may have killed hundreds of giant sequoias
General Sherman, the world's largest tree, is wrapped in fire-resistant blanket as wildfires threaten park
As summer wanes, California could enter another active fire period in the fall
The Wind Is Changing In Lake Tahoe, And That Could Help Firefighters
Homes lost, roads packed after South Lake Tahoe ordered to evacuate due to Caldor Fire
Firefighters Race To Battle The California Wildfire Surging Toward Lake Tahoe
Crews Face Worsening Winds in Battle to Keep Caldor Fire out of South Lake Tahoe
To Save Lake Tahoe, They Spared No Expense. The Fire Came Over the Ridge Anyway.
Firefighters work to keep California fire from Lake Tahoe
Thousands Of Northern Californians Flee From The Dixie And Caldor Wildfires
California Firefighters Are Keeping An Eye On An Emaciated, Maybe Orphaned, Bear Cub
Strong gusts, arid conditions stoke growing California wildfires
Wildfire smoke from Canada could return to Western Washington's skies Tuesday

Miami Herald Pulls No Punches With Stinging Gov. Ron DeSantis Editorial
When Tennessee fired its vaccine chief, officials were caught off guard, emails show
While COVID still rages, anti-vaccine activists will gather for a big conference
Organizing online, Covid skeptics drive public health professionals from their jobs
Dayton is spending some of its COVID aid in unexpected ways. It's not alone
Young, pregnant and unvaccinated: Hospitals confront a wave of severe illness and death
Meanwhile, here’s the nonsense Ron Johnson and Maria Bartiromo are saying about the pandemic
The Hypocrisy of the Anti-vax Patriot
Kentucky's backroad churches may be key to saving hospitals overwhelmed by COVID

The world's largest Ferris wheel just opened in Dubai

When you do not know what to choose, show total involvement in everything. Then life will choose, and it is never wrong. - Sadhguru

Textbook that asked if treatment of Native Americans was 'exaggerated' is recalled
Homesteading family’s lasting legacy realized in agreement to return nearly 10,000 acres of habitat to Colville Tribes in conservation deal
With 3 bold marks, Indigenous women helped revive a once-banned tradition
Moccasin maker Minnetonka apologizes to Native Americans

1 in 4 American Jews say they experienced antisemitism in the last year

SPAC linked to Trump social media venture edges lower as short seller targets
Shares tumble in blank-check company linked to Trump social venture
Analysis-From zero to $12 billion; investors chase Trump stock hype
What we know so far about Trump's planned social media platform
Key Investor Bails After Learning He's In New Trump Company: 'Not A Close Call'
Donald Trump launching new social media platform, TRUTH Social
Former U.S. president Donald Trump launches new social media platform
Trump announces launch of media company, social media site
Donald Trump (yet again) proves there's no bottom with his Colin Powell statement
Trump's small, sad revelation of his own mortality
Trump Gets Taken To School After Botching Basic U.S. History In Latest Rant
‘Daily Show’ Hits Trump Rally to Talk to Iowans Who Still Think He Won: ‘We Are Not a Cult’
Jordan Klepper Exposes MAGA Morons Who Still Think ‘Trump Won’
Trump Can’t Help Himself, Lashes Out at Colin Powell
Donald Trump's campaign website was defaced by a hacker

I want you to be more than a moment in my life's timeline. I want you to be a million different moments that fill my forever. - J.

Marjorie Taylor Greene fined third time for not wearing mask on House floor

Katharine Hayhoe's “Our future is still in our hands”

The Biden administration taps a top Republican official to lead election security
Washington state Republican could be a top choice for Biden administration post
Washington state Republican who rejects fraud claims up for federal elections job

This Doctor Says Humans Actually Need 7 Kinds of Rest (and You're Probably Not Getting All of Them)Getting a solid eight hours of sleep isn't enough.
The 7 types of rest that every person needs

Trump Has Weekend Freakout Over 'Horrible' Fox News Ads
Laura Ingraham Airs Misleading Images, Mocks Fact-Checkers for Busting Her

【突發時空】平機會以「族內歧視」禁歧視大陸人：那歧視真香港人的「新香港政府」呢？

“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.” - Peter Pan

Xinjiang officials overseeing detention camps studied at Harvard
EXCLUSIVE US electronics firm struck deal to transport and hire Uyghur workers
43 countries call on Beijing to respect Uyghur rights at UN, as ambassador denounces ‘plot to hurt China’

Officials: Iran behind drone attack on US base in Syria
A drone attack rocks one of the last U.S. bases in Syria

Advocates say Portland is first in nation to provide bereavement leave for employees after abortion

You have the power to say , " this is not how my story will end. " - Christine Mason Miller

We can do hard things. - Glennon Doyle

Resilience is the ability to convert your wounds into empathy and then in to action and then into advoacy. - Julia Torres Bardon

Kyrsten Sinema takes thousands in campaign contributions from pharmaceutical giants while stalling prescription drug pricing reforms
Capitol Hill drug pricing reform opponents among the biggest beneficiaries of pharma funds

Shooting at Boise Mall Leaves 2 Dead and 5 Injured, Including Suspect
2 people were killed, and several injured, in a shooting at a shopping mall in Idaho
‘We’ve got to run’ -- Idaho mall shooting leaves 2 dead
Police: 2 die, 4 injured in Idaho mall shooting
A Moroccan man was shot to death in Texas while sitting in a car
4 shot at Alabama high school football game
Police: 1 deputy killed, 2 wounded in ambush at Houston bar
A student is taken into custody after a Texas school shooting that injured 4 people
Student Opens Fire After Fight at Texas High School, Multiple Hurt
Employee shot dead at hospital, suspect injures 2 officers before capture
Suspect in custody after active shooter reported at Houston prep school
13 People Were Shot, 1 Killed, At A Tennessee Kroger Store. The Suspect Is Dead
Chipotle customer pulls gun after being told location was closing early, police say

Your inner being focuses uopn your wellness, whether you are focusing in that direction or not. - Abraham

Keep calm, it's just the bullwhip effect

Celtics games have been turned off in China after one player's pro-Tibet tweet
China is removing domes from mosques as part of a push to make them more 'Chinese'
Afghan Uyghurs whose families fled China now fear the Taliban could deport them

Barbados elects its 1st president in a step towards shedding its colonial past

Inside the jaw-clenching world of cricket fighting in China

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. - Khahlil Gibran, The Prophet

If everyone starts giving love instead of talking about love. This very earth can become a paradise. - Osho

The very center of your heart is where life begins, the most beautiful place on earth. - Rumi

Where We Come From: What's in a name?
Say my name

A photographer marries the worlds above and below the water in a single frame

Marijuana vaping among teens has more than doubled since 2013

Every moment of my life is sacred. - Desiree' B Stephens

Appreciate those who don't give up on you. - unknown

Rights NGO Amnesty International to close its Hong Kong offices citing security law
Video: ‘No way to prove’ Amnesty Int’l is leaving Hong Kong because of security law, says Chief Exec. Carrie Lam
Hong Kong court convicts man under security law for inciting secession with chants and speech
5 中大生暴動罪成　符凱晴判囚 4 年 11 月　親自陳情：若認為重判可令我反省悉隨尊便
臉──大寫的人，無處安放的自由
【全文記錄】鄒幸彤六四煽惑案自辯演說　「做一個香港人想做的事，我無怨無悔」
Hong Kong: Arrests under Security Law, a serious concern
The Most Prominent Tiananmen Monument on Chinese Soil Is Getting Removed
Hong Kong’s HK$8 billion national security ‘Special Fund’ is independently audited, but annual report gives no details
Security law: Ex-Student Politicism spokesperson granted bail, three others remain in custody pending trial
1 year prison for physicist who claimed he was helping shot protester during 2019 demo
Hong Kong pro-democracy grassroots group allows members to stand in ‘patriots only’ legislative election
Mother of Hong Kong murder victim seeks meeting with suspect, urges him to surrender to Taiwan authorities
Seven Hong Kong democrats jailed for up to 12 months over banned protest against security law
Experts dispute meaning of protest slogan as trial of Hong Kong activist Tam Tak-chi resumes after 2-month wait
HKU Tiananmen Massacre statue row: Ex-Hong Kong leader CY Leung urges investigation and boycott of law firm Mayer Brown
US law firm Mayer Brown will no longer represent University of Hong Kong on removing Tiananmen Massacre statue
高志活：願來港移走國殤之柱
UN experts urge review of Hong Kong security law; say arrests ‘incompatible’ with human rights and int’l law
More Hong Kong teachers to be tested on Basic Law, as schools face axe due to falling birth rate

Seizing a once in a lifetime opportunity to end homelessness in the US
'Invisible Child' tells the story of childhood homelessness in America

Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satifised. - Zadie Smith

One must have the courage of one's vocation and the courage to make a living from one's vocation. - Pablo Picasso

When I find myself facing a blank page.. what I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas. - Pablo Picasso

History forgot the 1871 Los Angeles Chinese massacre, but we’ve all been shaped by its violence

Amazon signs deal with British spy agencies to boost use of AI for espionage -FT

California’s unemployment fraud reaches at least $20 billion
Pandemic draining older Americans’ savings, leaving workers behind
What the Future May Hold for the Coronavirus and Us
NPR poll: The delta surge pushed Americans further behind in all walks of life

Unvaccinated Americans to face tighter COVID testing requirements in new US travel system
The CDC emphasizes COVID vaccinations as a key to safe holiday gatherings
Vaccinated foreign travelers will be allowed into the U.S. starting Nov. 8
Need to Call an Airline? Your Hold Time Will Be Approximately One Zillion Hours
U.S. travelers are back in the saddle again. But they've adapted to a new reality
United Airlines must delay its vaccine mandate for workers seeking an exemption
More Southwest Airlines flight disruptions follow a weekend of cancellations
Southwest Airlines cancels more than 1,000 weekend flights

How conspiracy theories bypass people’s rationality

“Helping others is something everyone should do. I don't think it's only our household thing. It should be a human thing.” - Jamie Lee Curtis

Kindness, compassion, empathy- now that is true beauty!

" I am not impressed by beauty anymore. It is not difficult or extraordinary to turn someone on. However, if you have the ability to inspire me, if you have the ability to stimulate my mind and stir my thoughts — well, that makes you magic." -Bianca Sparacino

The world is violent and mercurial, it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love - love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer, being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love. - Tennessee Williams

Number of Confederate monuments linked to number of lynchings, study finds

We rise and we shine!

You have fallen and you have risen time and time again; you are the living, breathing fragments of your triumphs and your gtragedies, stitched together through hurt and hope, and you still shine. You still shine. - Bianca Sparacino

They refused to pay rent and stole the fridge. Landlords deal with pandemic squatters

Forgetting My First Language

Through all hte ages poets and artisits have often been prophets, because their work, or th ematerial for it, comes to them from the same depths of the collective unconscious in which the major transformations of a particular era are in process of creation. - Marie-Louise von Franz

When I get lonely these days, I think : So be loney, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings. - Elizabeth Gilber, Eat Pray Love

We can find ourself.

We all wear scars-
find someone
who makes yours
feel beautiful. - unknown

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist. - Wendell Berry

Saudi Arabia pledges net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2060
Despite climate change promises, governments plan to ramp up fossil fuel production
U.S. coal production is up sharply after hitting a 50-year low last year
The COP26 summit to fight climate change is about to start. Here's what to expect
Greenhouse emissions reached record levels in 2020, even with pandemic lockdowns
Inaction on climate change imperils millions of lives, doctors say
Climate change is bad for your health. And plans to boost economies may make it worse
Climate change forces Washington apple cider industry to adjust
Washington wineries considering dramatic changes for climate change

The 'Vietnamese Alex Jones' has his YouTube channel taken down after being called out by John Oliver
Outrage grows after conservative host’s remarks on reporter’s Asian features
California teacher placed on leave after video shows her mocking Native American dance in headdress

Europe is giving its top human rights prize to Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic

Amazon Warehouse Workers In New York To File For Union Vote
House lawmakers ask Amazon to prove Bezos and other execs didn't lie to Congress
Amazon may have lied to Congress, bipartisan group of lawmakers say
Lawmakers question whether Amazon misled congressional panel about its business practices

It started with 5 families. Now hundreds are biking to school together in Barcelona

“The difference between the neurotic and the creative is that the neurotic is precisely the one who cannot create. And so he chokes on his introversions” - Ernest Becker

Jung said you can cure a psychotic patient if you can make him creative. In other words, if what is destroying him from within can be brought forth in writing or painting or some other form, then he can be cured. What we try to do is to help people bring forth the self. - Von Franz

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprisisng, and gave to it neither power nor time. - Mary Oliver

Divine Timing

Start trusting in divine timing. Just because you don't have it all figured out dones't mean you're behind. Your timing is your timing. What's unfolding for you is very sacred. You're being prepared for it. Every little thing is adding up even when it doesn't always make sense. Trust the timing of your life. - Idil Ahmed

Ursula K. Le Guin on Being a Man

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. - John Steinbeck

"...everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and what is a reality to me may not be a reality to you. For me to claim my version of reality is the one truth that exists from over seven billion minds on the planet would be pretty egotistical and naïve." - Luke Miller

Why We Shouldn't Force Our Spiritual Beliefs on Other People

Inquiry is the bridge...

When valued personal relationships go silent, trouble often follows. I'm not talking about productive "time-outs" that are clearly expressed - I am talking about silence that is reactive, or an attempt to do harm. This kind of silence ensures that the connection will not find its way back to health. Because silenece fosters confusion, projections, and worst of all, assumptions about what the other is feeling or thinking. And assumption doesn't get us anywhere good. Inquiry does. Assumptions ensure that the wall will only get thicker, until there is no way to reconnect. Whatever you do, even if you are justifiably angry, try to keep the door to inquiry open. You may not be ready to process the experience, but allow for the possibility that you one day will. Because valued connections are hard to find in this crazy world. Anger doesn't have to be the end of the story. Sometimes it's the portal to a closer connection. Sometimes, it's the way through to great learning. Inquiry is the bridge. - Jeff Brown, Hearticulations.

Nothing to hide , nowhere to hide it …..

What the world needs now is a true conversation. Not a conversation between our adaptations, disguises and defenses. Not a conversation that hides our truth under a bushel of shame. Not a conversation abotu what doesn't mater. But a conversation that is revealed, revealing, deeplyu genuine. Perhaps that is the key to most everything.. true sharing from the deep within. Nothing to hide, nowhere to hide it.. - Jeff Brown, Soulshaping

Crisis.. is an attempt to dislodge us from a toxic status quo and constitutes an insistent call to rebuild our lives on a more authentic and sincere basis. - Alain De Botton

Alain de Botton on the Myth of Normalcy and the Importance of Breakdowns

“I believe it’s a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.” - Fred Rogers

Tech workers recount the cost of speaking out, as tensions rise inside companies

Fear hijacks the Mind. Anxiety takes us hostage. - Jason Silva

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological kind, but are psychic events. We are threatened in a fearful way by wars and revolutions that are nothing else than psychic epidemcis. - CG Jung

If there’s a will, there’s a way! Anything is possible. - unknown

Texas's Dan Patrick finally pays his first voter-fraud reward
Steve Bannon doesn't want to testify. We already know what he did.
U.S. House edges toward contempt charges against Trump aide Bannon
Jim Jordan Struggles To Answer House Panel's Questions About Jan. 6 Trump Calls
Letters to the Editor: Journalists, start treating the GOP like the bigoted cult it is
Republicans stand by Trump as he continues to push 2020 election falsehoods
Chuck Todd: Republicans letting Trump 'run out the clock' on Jan. 6 probe
Congress is still trying to get Trumpworld to play by its rules
Trump sues Jan. 6 committee, National Archives
MAGA Leader Steve Bannon Faces Jail Again -- With No Pardon This Time
Trump sues to try to stop the release of documents related to the Capitol riot
Decades before Trump's election lies, McCarthy's anti-communist fever gripped the GOP

The whole world changes when one gets out..

It certainly feels good to imagine that the entire dysfunctional family will heal and mend. I held out ffor that vision of possibility for many years, largely because of the toxic, codependent nature of my trauma. If we suffered together, then we would rise together. But it seldom happes this way, both because of the complex nature of ancestral trauma, and because it takes so much energy and imagination to craft a healthier way of being. Most people who have been trapped beneath the rubble of family maddiess, don't have the energy, or the faith to get out from under it. It ahs become who they are. But you have to keep going. Traversing your path. You have to give yourself permission to shed the paradigm, even if it's lonely, even if you feel the temptation to go back and wait on the others. Family dynamics can be like quick sand, they may end up dragging you down with them. Stay firmly planted on your path. We need you. Because the whole world changes when one gets out. Because you are our best hope for a healthier tomorrow. I know it's difficult to get out alone, but you are never truly alone. You are raisiing the bar for all of us. - Jeff Brown, Hearticulations

heartbreaking...

Heat stress likely caused the deaths of a California family while they were hiking

7 in Hong Kong die from bacterial outbreak linked to freshwater fish, as experts caution market shoppers

When your child walks into the roon, do your eyes light up? That's what they're looking for. - Toni Morrison

Evergrande vultures swoop into moral hazard
China real estate shares, bonds hit by Evergrande concerns
Evergrande looks set to miss its third round of bond payments in 3 weeks, and it's intensifying contagion fears in China
China Evergrande halts share trading in Hong Kong pending ‘major transaction’ announcement, reports say
Evergrande fuels concerns over China’s housing bubble
Beijing’s pressure on Hong Kong tycoons may well be a miscalculation
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo Calls For The U.S. To Counter China's Economic Power
5 Lessons Evergrande Taught Us About The Chinese Economy
China’s central bank rules all crypto transactions are illegal
The Evergrande Group's Debt Issues Could Be A Drag On China's Economy
Evergrande contagion fears hit Hong Kong stocks, with default expected
These numbers show just how big a headache Evergrande is for China
China letting Evergrande default would be 'a no-go,' expert explains
The U.S.-China rivalry isn't a new Cold War. It's a new Great Game.
China expert: 'There’s going to be a lot of pain' before Evergrande saga is over
Hong Kong Property Tycoons Take $6.7 Billion Hit on China Fears
Sun Hung Kai Denies China Is Pressing Hong Kong Developers
Fortunes Tumble From Seattle to Shenzhen in $135 Billion Wipeout
A Chinese Real Estate Company Is Walloping Your Stocks. Here's Why
China’s property market runs out of steam as millions demand their money back
Biden, Xi discuss need to avoid conflict amid global competition
Biden calls Xi as US-China relationship grows more fraught
Biden calls Chinese President Xi Jinping about U.S.-China relationship
Dollar dips on stronger risk appetite after U.S., China call
China's factory inflation hits 13-year high as materials costs soar

Our wounding is often the portal to our greatness. It contains the seeds of our transformation and clarifies the nature of the offering we bring the world. - Jeff Brown

"The wound is where the light enters you." - Rumi

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen

Report: Far-right anti-government group grows significantly