The Fourth of July is more than America’s birthday. It’s also the timeā¦
Source: This is what an honest 4th of July BBQ would look like – Holy Kaw!
Perhaps the most inspirational guitar duet you’ll ever see…
Guitar duets can be inspirational for a lot of reasons, but this reason will catch you off guard. One of the guitarists has no hands. I have to grab this one before @davidkanigan does! :-D
Source: The most inspirational guitar duet you’ll ever see – Holy Kaw!
Transforming Our Pain by Richard Rohr
Spirituality is always eventually about what you do with your pain. It seems our culture has lost its own spiritual foundation and center, and as a result we no longer know what to do with universal pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will always transmit it–to our partner, our spouse, our children, our friends, our coworkers, our “enemies.” Usually we project it outward and blame someone else for causing our pain.
Take a flying boat tour of Virginia’s Cape Charles
Look! In the sky! Itās a bird! Itās a plane! Noā¦itās a flying boat? This is a weird way to tour Virginiaās beautiful Cape Charles, but it gets the job done.
Source: Take a flying boat tour of Virginia’s Cape Charles – Holy Kaw!
Reflection: A Water Story
Life follows water
Where there is water there is life, and where there is life there is water. The two are inseparable. This simple realization is imperative to the survival of our species. As humans, we have systematically destroyed an innumerable number of natural ecosystems around the world. These are ecosystems that regulate the transfer of oxygen and carbon, maintain the temperature of the planet, and create the conditions for life as we know it. These are like the organs of the body: when treated properly, they support the life of the whole. When treated improperly, other organs begin to compensate and pick up the slack until they exceed their capacity, after which the health of the whole becomes increasingly compromised.
The structures that we are replacing these ecosystems with (think jungles, savannahs, etc.) are often cities, suburbs, or agricultural lands. Currently, our design of cities, suburbs, and agricultural lands is profoundly linear, extractive, and disconnected from the natural cycles of an ecosystem. Water runs right off the top of these landscapes carrying all of the pollutants that it picks up in the process to the sea. There is no root structure to attract and retain water in these landscapes, and there are hardly any life forms to build and benefit the soil health.
Source: Reflection: A Water Story. | elephant journal
This 4th of July, Save the Sausages
Remember, grills kill!
Momma rat rescues baby from snake
A motherās protective instinct is strong across all species. Watch this rat fight off a snake thatās kidnapped (or rat-napped?) its baby.
How to be a Canadian
Thinking about moving to Canada after the election? This may help…
The Fascinating Evolution of Beer
Think you know your beer? Take a walk through the rich and detailed evolution of beer with this interesting infographic.
The Worst Kind of Betrayal
āWhen we think about betrayal in terms of the marble jar metaphor [you’ll have to go to the source at the bottom if you want to understand the metaphor], most of us think of someone we trust doing something so terrible that it forces us to grab the jar and dump out every single marble. Whatās the worst betrayal of trust? He sleeps with my best friends. She lies about where the money went. He/she chooses someone over me. Someone uses my vulnerability against me [an act of emotional treason that causes most of us to slam the entire jar to the ground rather than just dumping out the marbles]. All terrible betrayals, definitely, but there is a particular sort of betrayal that is more insidious and equally corrosive to trust.In fact, this betrayal usually happens long before the other ones. Iām talking about the betrayal of disengagement. Of not caring. Of letting the connection go. Of not being willing to devote time and effort to the relationship. The word betrayal evokes experiences of cheating, lying, breaking a confidence, failing to defend us to someone else whoās gossiping about us, and not choosing us over other people. These behaviors are certainly betrayals, but theyāre not the only form of betrayal. If I had to choose the form of betrayal that emerged most frequently from my research and that was the most dangerous in terms of corroding the trust connection, I would say disengagement.When the people we love or with whom we have a deep connection stop caring, stop paying attention, stop investing and fighting for the relationship, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in. Disengagement triggers shame and our greatest fearsāthe fears of being abandoned, unworthy, and unlovable. What can make this covert betrayal so much more dangerous than something like a lie or an affair is that we canāt point to the source of our paināthereās no event, no obvious evidence of brokenness. It can feel crazy-making.ā
Go to the source: The Worst Kind of Betrayal Ā« Positively Positive
Rebellion
Check out “Rebellion” on Netflix
http://www.netflix.com/title/80094273?source=android
How? via Live & Learn
True…
This morning it rained. This afternoon it is sunny. How is that not like the mind? ~ Michael Kewley, May all beings be happy Sources: Quote ā Some of my best friends are birds. Photo: Your Eyes BlazeĀ Out
Be More Confident and Less Critical of Yourself
Here’s another excellent podcast from author Christine Hassler. I encourage you to subscribe if you like this one…
Insecurity can be painful and it blinds us from seeing who we truly are. We are not born insecure, we become that way. Itās a feeling we have based on the beliefs we accumulate when people are critical of us or we feel judged in some way. The problem is, we live in aĀ worldā¦
via EP 41: Be More Confident and Less Critical ofĀ Yourself ā Christine Hassler
Bright, shiny objects! 
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