Above All Love

The media coverage of Israel vs her neighbours and Russia vs her brethren in the Ukraine is just the tip of the iceberg of what is going on globally. The governments, armies, terrorists or so called "liberation fighters" of all sides of all conflicts make me sick. Still more the arms trade who use them us useful puppets to make billions of dollars. And the politicians who are playing geopolitics with their own souls and the lives of others. Civilians on all sides should be protected. Aid agencies and journalists should be allowed to operate freely. The geneva convention should be upheld. All war criminals should be arrested immediately by international peacekeepers, a neutral party or an inside job. All illegally detained civilians should be released immediately (whatever terminology is used to justify them being held). The entire international community has failed to stop all this and so much more across the globe. The nonsense of arguing over who started it and who killed t...

"A glimmer is a satisfying sensory delight that fills someone with fervent ecstasy. It is the opposite of a trigger (a stimulus perceived as threatening and unsafe). Autistic people often experience the sensory world with hyper-attunement, creative alliance and whimsy." ~ ND OT I love passion flowers. I had no idea it could be an Autistic thing as well as a faith and beauty thing. I didn't know they existed until I heard of a faith group called The Julian Meetings who are a bit like Quakers in worship style, but particularly like Julian of Norwich. The passion flower is the symbol they use, but it has faith connections all the way back to when the Spanish discoverd the flower. "We chose this plant to decorate our publications because of its silent witness to the heart of the Christian faith. The passion flower is a native of southern Brazil and first flowered in England in 1868. The name Passion Flower was given by the first Spanish friars and missionaries to tropic...