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02/07/2025

02/04/2025

HERES SOMETHING YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT ONE OF THE BEST BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO EVER LIVED ... “Babe Ruth actually played against negro league players to help make them money and try and bring awareness to how good these players actually were. According to Buck O'Neill and Monte Irvin, players in the Negro Leagues received the equivalent of a dollar a day. When Babe Ruth joined them, he would bring them $1,500 to share among all the teams. Ruth was, for a long time, an advocate of the integration of baseball.” WHAT A 🐐🐐

06/15/2022

WE ARE HERE

We are here essentially to risk ourselves in the world. We are a form of invitation to others and to otherness, we are meant to hazard ourselves for the right thing, for the right woman or the right man, for a son or a daughter, for the right work or for a gift given against all the odds. And in all this continual risking the most profound courage may be found in the greatest risk and the greatest vulnerability of all, the simple willingness to allow ourselves to be happy along the way…

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From ‘LONGING’ In CONSOLATIONS:
The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words. Revised Edition
© 2020 David Whyte

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Striding Down From Stoney Cove Pike
Photo © David Whyte
Cumbria. July 2nd 2017

06/07/2022

THE GLEAM

Sometimes,
in the midst
of every difficult
and everyday
awkward
way, you try to
make your
onward way,

sometimes
sitting down
at the edge
of everything
that has made you
too tired
to take
another step,

there’s that
caught sight,
now here,
now gone

of a half imagined
wavering light
just among
the trees

just a gleam
or a wisp
of white gold
in the dying sun

a strange kind
of beckoning,

an ache
outlined
so intimately
as it is,
against
all of the doings
you have
labeled
so lovingly
as sins,

the place you
should have gone
all those years ago
still, it seems,
willing
to invite you again,

simpler this time,
not too far away

touchable now,
and within reach

just a single step
on the other side
of what you always
come to call
in the end,
forgiveness.

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Sunset Over Connemara
Photo : David Whyte
Ballyvaughan, June 18th 2019

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THE GLEAM
in ‘Still Possible’
Many Rivers Press January 2022

06/06/2022

https://dailystoic.com/this-surprises-you/

There are some 8 billion people in the world. There are 365 days in a year. It surprises you that some of those people are dumb? That some of those days are not great? It’s amazing the attention (and the hand wringing) paid to the handful of absolutely batsh*t crazy members of the United States [....