Jim Lockard

Sign reads: Free Nobel Peace prize with an order of shrimp tacos.

#peaceprize
#tacos

Photo of Joseph Campbell doing the "Shakti dance" at Esalen in 1983. Quotes: “As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off. Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance. Having a sense of humor saves you.” ~ Joseph Campbell "If you are falling….dive." ~ Joseph Campbell "The mystic is swimming in the same water the psychotic is drowning in." ~ Joseph Campbell.

Good morning #BlueSky

“As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off.
Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance.
Having a sense of humor saves you.” ~J Campbell

"If you are falling….dive." ~Joseph Campbell

There's a boy in you about three Years old who hasn't learned a thing for thirty Thousand years. Sometimes it's a girl. This child had to make up its mind How to save you from death. He said things like: "Stay home. Avoid elevators. Eat only elk." You live with this child, but you don't know it. You're in the office, yes, but live with this boy At night. He's uninformed, but he does want To save your life. And he has. Because of this boy You survived a lot. He's got six big ideas. Five don't work. Right now he's repeating them to you. Robert Bly, 'One Source of Bad Information'

One Source of Bad Information, by Robert Bly

(quoted in Wild Things: A Geography of Grief by Barbara Wansbrough)

The Paradox of Global Warming and Colder Winters - WhoWhatWhy If the cold weather makes it harder for you to argue with climate change deniers about the existence of global warming, this story is for you.

How does global warming cause colder winter storms? whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/23/t...

Image of Jim & Dorianne in the Loire Valley. Quote: “When I retired I knew that I had to create a new life. I changed my manner of thinking about my life, moving out of the sphere of achievement, into the sphere of enjoyment and appreciation, relaxing into the wonder of it all.” ~ Joseph Campbell

Good Morning #BlueSky

“When I #retired I knew that I had to create a new life. I changed my manner of thinking about my life, moving out of the sphere of achievement, into the sphere of enjoyment and appreciation, relaxing into the wonder of it all.” ~ Joseph Campbell
#retire

Between Auroras and Dawn — A South Pole Sunrise After the Longest Night on Earth’ by © Aman Chokshi | Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2025

Image of someone meditating on a rock in a lake. Quote: “You must have an hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes you; a place where you simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.” ~ Joseph Campbell

Good morning #BlueSky:

“You must have an hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody; a place where you simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.” ~ Joseph Campbell

Good morning #BlueSky

“The warrior’s approach is to say ‘yes’ to life: ‘yea’ to it all. Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.” ~ Joseph Campbell

In 2000, almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. By 2024, 90% of their electricity was from renewables. ⚡ Energy transitions can happen faster than we think!

I’m amazed by the number of people who have never heard of the American artist Norman Rockwell who did both of these works

Más del 75% de los cultivos alimentarios dependen de insectos polinizadores...

This timing makes a lot more sense now, doesn’t it?

Adm. Alvin Holsey resigned in October as commander of U.S. Southern Command right after flagging concerns about those U.S. military strikes on “suspected” drug boats in the Caribbean.

He served for 37 years.

Image of 4 nuns smoking. Quote: “Are we divided inside? If we are divided inside, there's no way in hell or heaven that tomorrow we're not going to have a divided world. It doesn't matter if we've got the best intentions in the universe; what really matters is the state from which we act.” ~ Adyashanti

Good morning #Bluesky

“Are we divided inside? If we are divided inside, there's no way in hell or heaven that tomorrow we're not going to have a divided world. It doesn't matter if we've got the best intentions in the universe; what really matters is the state from which we act.” ~ Adyashanti

Somehow this is the worst part.

Yet again I'd like to thank the publishing industry, Hollywood, and Yale Law School for ensuring this bigot's rise to prominence.

Meme - Robot from Futurama with a sign saying APPLAUSE

Do not question your robot overlords.

Remember in May when Trump gave asylum to 17 family members of the Sinaloa cartel after making a deal with El Chapo’s son? And did you know in 2013, El Chapo bribed Juan Hernandez- who trump just pardoned - in exchange for protection in Honduras? I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.

Meme: Bette Davis with text DEAR GOD!

Image one one person standing alone in the center of a group. Quotes: "You are going to ruffle some feathers if you want to fly. When you stand up and begin to shine, you become a target. Shine on anyways. Who gives a damn about the negative opinion of others?" ~ Mastin Kipp "Wanting to be liked is fatal." ~ Gloria Vanderbilt

Good morning #BlueSky

"You are going to ruffle some feathers if you want to fly. When you stand up and begin to shine, you become a target. Shine on anyways. Who gives a damn about the negative opinion of others?" ~ Mastin Kipp

"Wanting to be liked is fatal." ~ Gloria Vanderbilt

If blowing up survivors in the water was the right thing to do because they are “narco-terrorists” (trust us, bro) and deserve no quarter, why did we rescue two other survivors in a different strike, fly them home, and let them go free?

One issue is the constitution being written by educated men, imagined that future citizens and leaders would be as educated as them or more, and that therefore their future was always going to be one that respected unwritten but agreed upon centuries of English legal tradition

This Is What It’s Like In Our Country Every Day….

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

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Image of an elder Carl G. Jung Quotes: "The wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts." ~ C.G. Jung “The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic epidemics.” ~ C.G. Jung

Good morning #BlueSky

"The wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts." ~ C.G. Jung

“The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic epidemics.” ~ C.G. Jung

“The only people who get angry when hearing service members being told to ignore illegal orders are people who intend to issue illegal orders.”

Sadly true.

IS IT TIME TO TAKE A PERSONAL RETREAT TO VISION A NEW YEAR? “Nothing ages so quickly as yesterday’s vision of the future.” ~ Richard Corliss I like to make it a practice to vision and spend some time in solitude during the last half of December each year. T…

As we prepare to enter December, the last month of 2025, it's a good time to think deeply about setting your intentions for 2026 and beyond. From my NewThoughtEvolutionary Blog archives:
IS IT TIME TO TAKE A PERSONAL RETREAT TO VISION A NEW YEAR?

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It’s the old Betamax vs VHS thing all over again.

This just in:
The days are going to get even shorter for the next 3 weeks!

So, he wasn’t actually cancelled?