Have a Bootiful 🎃 Halloween 👻
Two Short Stories
Read Two Short Stories Now!
Prometheus the Magic Man - what happens when Magic meets it's match the power of ❤️ Love.
The Nightshade hotel - can a Ghost compete with a new Love?
Two short and wonderfully entertaining stories! Perfect for 🎃 Halloween or anytime!
Enjoy! 🐱 CAT
Monday, October 31, 2016
Saturday, October 29, 2016
Are You Real?
Truth.
It has many levels.
Do you value honesty?
Would you lie to save your life or someone else's?
How about a lie of omission?
Is that your standard of honesty?
Most of the time you tell the truth. You avoid lying whenever possible.
Have you met people who appear to be one person and then you find out they are really quite different?
That nice person became mean, and then he or she showed you their good side again and you became confused. Who are they really? Which personality is the real one?
Eventually, you decide neither one is real. You walk away, because you can't stand the pain.
One day you find out who has been the biggest liar of them all.
You remember the ideals of your youth, the promises you made, the love you forgot. How many years have you lived a lie?
Everything you have is someone else's dream, not yours.
Just when you think you made it, you remember who you are and you don't know yourself anymore.
Which one of you is real?
Who are you?
It has many levels.
Do you value honesty?
Would you lie to save your life or someone else's?
How about a lie of omission?
Is that your standard of honesty?
Most of the time you tell the truth. You avoid lying whenever possible.
Have you met people who appear to be one person and then you find out they are really quite different?
That nice person became mean, and then he or she showed you their good side again and you became confused. Who are they really? Which personality is the real one?
Eventually, you decide neither one is real. You walk away, because you can't stand the pain.
One day you find out who has been the biggest liar of them all.
You remember the ideals of your youth, the promises you made, the love you forgot. How many years have you lived a lie?
Everything you have is someone else's dream, not yours.
Just when you think you made it, you remember who you are and you don't know yourself anymore.
Which one of you is real?
Who are you?
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Healing the Body and the Mind
I've come across very encouraging news regarding healing that is taking place for people who had previously been paralyzed due to physical injury.
To grossly oversimplify, the doctors and scientists created an exoskeletal machine that was responsive to the patient's brain waves. This meant the person who was paralyzed could cause paralyzed parts of his body to move by using his mind to move the machine. When the patients began to regularly use the machine to walk and move, after a while something unexpected happened. The people began to regain some movement and feeling in the previously paralyzed areas. They began to heal! They also regained some control over their bladder and bowel functions.
By simulating and re-creating the experience of moving and walking again, the brain was stimulated and caused to rewire it's connections. The body and the brain began to repair it's connections and the muscles that had atrophied below the severed injured areas began to respond. This effect was not expected by the doctors, but it is very encouraging because instead of just simulating the experience of movement through an exoskeletal robotic mechanism, these people are actually beginning to heal! This is fantastic!
The difference with this therapy versus other therapies that just move the body, is that the brain was involved. That causes the brain to repair and rewire it's connections. The human body was designed to heal itself, because life is a positive experience. If it were not innately positive, no one would be able to survive.
Life is a miracle! The fact that you are here is a miracle! If life we're not good, not only would you not be able to survive, you wouldn't want to. Life and time relentlessly move forward because there is only one direction. No matter what happens, there is always tomorrow.
This medical miracle is a metaphor for all of life's troubles. Don't forget to get your head in the game. You have to believe and you have to engage your mind no matter how much the odds seem stacked against you. Just do something positive; think something positive. Make the effort; plant the seed of faith and watch what grows.
❤️ CAT
To grossly oversimplify, the doctors and scientists created an exoskeletal machine that was responsive to the patient's brain waves. This meant the person who was paralyzed could cause paralyzed parts of his body to move by using his mind to move the machine. When the patients began to regularly use the machine to walk and move, after a while something unexpected happened. The people began to regain some movement and feeling in the previously paralyzed areas. They began to heal! They also regained some control over their bladder and bowel functions.
By simulating and re-creating the experience of moving and walking again, the brain was stimulated and caused to rewire it's connections. The body and the brain began to repair it's connections and the muscles that had atrophied below the severed injured areas began to respond. This effect was not expected by the doctors, but it is very encouraging because instead of just simulating the experience of movement through an exoskeletal robotic mechanism, these people are actually beginning to heal! This is fantastic!
The difference with this therapy versus other therapies that just move the body, is that the brain was involved. That causes the brain to repair and rewire it's connections. The human body was designed to heal itself, because life is a positive experience. If it were not innately positive, no one would be able to survive.
Life is a miracle! The fact that you are here is a miracle! If life we're not good, not only would you not be able to survive, you wouldn't want to. Life and time relentlessly move forward because there is only one direction. No matter what happens, there is always tomorrow.
This medical miracle is a metaphor for all of life's troubles. Don't forget to get your head in the game. You have to believe and you have to engage your mind no matter how much the odds seem stacked against you. Just do something positive; think something positive. Make the effort; plant the seed of faith and watch what grows.
❤️ CAT
Friday, October 7, 2016
The Advanced Class
As we trudge wearily through the earth, we question time and again why we have been asked to comprehend so much. Why have our lives been filled with such irony, such pain and such great loss?
Why have events conspired against me so that I suffered such great and unnecessary loss?
So much time appears to have been wasted. Feelings have been hurt. We have misunderstood each other, attacked one another, and then felt great sorrow realizing our mistake.
There was once a time, in a faraway place, where the decision was made. We are tired. We don't want to be here anymore. It is time to graduate. And so we find ourselves now in the advanced class, learning lessons well beyond our paygrade. Struggling to comprehend life's mysteries, trying to make sense of it all, we are caught in a trap of our own device.
Welcome to the Advanced Class.
Why did that happen to me? Why did I lose so much?
Why have events conspired against me so that I suffered such great and unnecessary loss?
So much time appears to have been wasted. Feelings have been hurt. We have misunderstood each other, attacked one another, and then felt great sorrow realizing our mistake.
There was once a time, in a faraway place, where the decision was made. We are tired. We don't want to be here anymore. It is time to graduate. And so we find ourselves now in the advanced class, learning lessons well beyond our paygrade. Struggling to comprehend life's mysteries, trying to make sense of it all, we are caught in a trap of our own device.
Welcome to the Advanced Class.
Monday, October 3, 2016
Impersonal Instruments
When we see people in person, we tend to treat them better.
However, when someone's lifestyle is unrelatable, most people cannot empathize with them.
This is why cultural differences, gender and generation gaps exist. This is why we are put here on this earth, to learn empathy.
The internet further dehumanizes people. It becomes just words, and we don't have the same self-restraint.
These impersonal instruments, our phones, tablets, computers keep finding more and better ways for us to interact impersonally. We can hide our voices, faces, even our real names behind a screen.
How you treat people when you hide behind your shield of anonymity, that's who you really are. Remember that a real person is reading your words. Words can cut deep. Hateful and harsh words desensitize others and cause more ugliness.
Sometimes there's nothing better than a warm hug or having someone hold your hand when you're tired or feeling down. If all you have is a screen, you can't see or hear what's really going on with someone.
Maybe it's hard to muster compassion on these primitive, impersonal instruments. If that's the case, then get out in the real world, show your face and lend a helping hand rather than a hurtful word. Let me be the first to Thank You!
However, when someone's lifestyle is unrelatable, most people cannot empathize with them.
This is why cultural differences, gender and generation gaps exist. This is why we are put here on this earth, to learn empathy.
The internet further dehumanizes people. It becomes just words, and we don't have the same self-restraint.
These impersonal instruments, our phones, tablets, computers keep finding more and better ways for us to interact impersonally. We can hide our voices, faces, even our real names behind a screen.
How you treat people when you hide behind your shield of anonymity, that's who you really are. Remember that a real person is reading your words. Words can cut deep. Hateful and harsh words desensitize others and cause more ugliness.
Sometimes there's nothing better than a warm hug or having someone hold your hand when you're tired or feeling down. If all you have is a screen, you can't see or hear what's really going on with someone.
Maybe it's hard to muster compassion on these primitive, impersonal instruments. If that's the case, then get out in the real world, show your face and lend a helping hand rather than a hurtful word. Let me be the first to Thank You!
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Indivisible
In 1924 native Americans were made Citizens of the United States. This was done over their objections.
That is a profound truth. American citizenship is something to be valued and people all over the world struggle to come to America. The American Indian was here first. This is his land and her land, a land they were not able to defend against white settlers.
While it is undoubtedly a fair-minded thing to confer citizenship upon people who were born here, there is clearly the other point of view that the United States has no authority to confer citizenship upon anyone, because this land belongs to its original inhabitants.
There is scarcely any piece of land on the face of the earth has not been fought over and died for. Animals fight and kill for food, dominance, territory. So do we. We also fight over religion and ideals, and we kill over these things too.
The American Indian got this name when Columbus came here and apparently confused them with Indians from the other side of the earth. The name stuck, because it takes a while to learn from our mistakes apparently.
On the other side of the earth, the Indians there have a religion Hinduism, which teaches us to rise above the battlefield.
We all live here together on this planet, occupying a limited space. There's only one earth and there is only one life on this planet. If the planet dies so do we. If one species dies, others are affected.
The cure for cancer might come from the black man living in Africa, or the Muslim woman living in Saudi Arabia. We can learn from each other's cultures, and we can enhance our lives. Or we can continue to behave like animals. It is time for mankind to rise above its baser nature. Cast off the animal instincts, and embrace the spiritual nature of man. The seven races must be a complement to one another, colorful and diverse, yet one people, one earth like the shining jewel of our planet. The more diversity we embrace, the greater and richer life will be on this planet. Two new races of man are destined to evolve here. Let us welcome them in peace.
That is a profound truth. American citizenship is something to be valued and people all over the world struggle to come to America. The American Indian was here first. This is his land and her land, a land they were not able to defend against white settlers.
While it is undoubtedly a fair-minded thing to confer citizenship upon people who were born here, there is clearly the other point of view that the United States has no authority to confer citizenship upon anyone, because this land belongs to its original inhabitants.
There is scarcely any piece of land on the face of the earth has not been fought over and died for. Animals fight and kill for food, dominance, territory. So do we. We also fight over religion and ideals, and we kill over these things too.
The American Indian got this name when Columbus came here and apparently confused them with Indians from the other side of the earth. The name stuck, because it takes a while to learn from our mistakes apparently.
On the other side of the earth, the Indians there have a religion Hinduism, which teaches us to rise above the battlefield.
We all live here together on this planet, occupying a limited space. There's only one earth and there is only one life on this planet. If the planet dies so do we. If one species dies, others are affected.
The cure for cancer might come from the black man living in Africa, or the Muslim woman living in Saudi Arabia. We can learn from each other's cultures, and we can enhance our lives. Or we can continue to behave like animals. It is time for mankind to rise above its baser nature. Cast off the animal instincts, and embrace the spiritual nature of man. The seven races must be a complement to one another, colorful and diverse, yet one people, one earth like the shining jewel of our planet. The more diversity we embrace, the greater and richer life will be on this planet. Two new races of man are destined to evolve here. Let us welcome them in peace.
Saturday, September 17, 2016
Shine the Light on Oppression
Reading about some women who live in parts of the world where there is oppression and male dominance. These women are not allowed to work or study unless their male guardians approve it. Some of them were beaten, some of them are demeaned for their entire lives.
My own backwards family held me back from my dreams and aspirations as well and I live in America. My own mother was the chief oppressor. She did not believe in a world where women and girls should get an education and improve themselves.
Of course, I followed my own nature and made something of myself. I had a good career, but I could've done so much better without these impediments.
What these women in the third world are up against is nearly impossible to overcome. The law stands against them, not just their family and culture.
As for me, I like to think that I learned different lessons that I would not have learned without so many obstacles in my life. When my family banned me from going to college, I learned the value of education. I read every book I could get my hands on. I read manuals, text books, books about physics, science, psychology, etc. all in an attempt to self educate. When my family would not respect me, my opinions, or my goals and choices in life, I learned how important it is to respect other people and listen to them. I know what it feels like to be disrespected, to be ignored, and to be walked on.
For a while, I became very tough, too tough. I developed a hard outer shell.
Then one day I remembered the girl I used to be. I miss her so much. The woman I am now is here to protect her. But I am able to let her out again. She will listen to you and she will respect your feelings because she has something I had lost over the years. She has empathy. She cares about people.
Any society where one person has a lifetime of control over another is unfair and unjust. Societies which deem one sex or one race to be inferior have deep cultural flaws that must be healed. The oppression of one race or gender creates an environment of hostility and corruption of power. Remember the adage absolute power corrupts absolutely. The man who holds such power has no opportunity to become more enlightened because no one has the power to push back upon his authority. He has no opportunity to learn that there are better ways to treat people.
We have to stand together as people of the world. We have to shine the light on any form of oppression wherever we find it, and support our brothers' and sisters' efforts to finally be free of whatever form of captivity holds them powerless.
What I've learned from my hardships is that no one else should have to endure them. No one should have decreased opportunities because of someone else's prejudice.
I wrote this to shine a light on some of the ignorance in the world. When you see ignorance, oppression or prejudice, I hope you too get out your flashlight!
My own backwards family held me back from my dreams and aspirations as well and I live in America. My own mother was the chief oppressor. She did not believe in a world where women and girls should get an education and improve themselves.
Of course, I followed my own nature and made something of myself. I had a good career, but I could've done so much better without these impediments.
What these women in the third world are up against is nearly impossible to overcome. The law stands against them, not just their family and culture.
As for me, I like to think that I learned different lessons that I would not have learned without so many obstacles in my life. When my family banned me from going to college, I learned the value of education. I read every book I could get my hands on. I read manuals, text books, books about physics, science, psychology, etc. all in an attempt to self educate. When my family would not respect me, my opinions, or my goals and choices in life, I learned how important it is to respect other people and listen to them. I know what it feels like to be disrespected, to be ignored, and to be walked on.
For a while, I became very tough, too tough. I developed a hard outer shell.
Then one day I remembered the girl I used to be. I miss her so much. The woman I am now is here to protect her. But I am able to let her out again. She will listen to you and she will respect your feelings because she has something I had lost over the years. She has empathy. She cares about people.
Any society where one person has a lifetime of control over another is unfair and unjust. Societies which deem one sex or one race to be inferior have deep cultural flaws that must be healed. The oppression of one race or gender creates an environment of hostility and corruption of power. Remember the adage absolute power corrupts absolutely. The man who holds such power has no opportunity to become more enlightened because no one has the power to push back upon his authority. He has no opportunity to learn that there are better ways to treat people.
We have to stand together as people of the world. We have to shine the light on any form of oppression wherever we find it, and support our brothers' and sisters' efforts to finally be free of whatever form of captivity holds them powerless.
What I've learned from my hardships is that no one else should have to endure them. No one should have decreased opportunities because of someone else's prejudice.
I wrote this to shine a light on some of the ignorance in the world. When you see ignorance, oppression or prejudice, I hope you too get out your flashlight!
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