In honor of World Tarot Day, I’d like to share this post I first published on my Mystery of a Shrinking Violet blog back in 2009, with a few updates, to honor some of the people of Tarot, including writers and artists that I think are rather special. By the way, I understand that today…
Author: Barbara W. Klaser
A Glance Back at 2023 in Antarctica
In both Greenland and Antarctica, the ice shelves are what hold glacial ice on land. Not only do the ice shelves help protect the land glaciers, they support a lot of wildlife. It’s easy to forget about the enormous Antarctic continent covered in ice, but it’s there, it’s big, and it’s melting. The following reports…
The benefits of a job guarantee and-or a universal basic income
What would a jobs guarantee mean to Americans? No more unemployment for anyone who wants to and is able to work. For the past few years there’s been some debate over a Universal Basic Income (UBI) versus a Jobs Guarantee. This seems to be an either or debate, but I wonder if both are not needed, for different but related reasons. They should also be combined with child care, elder care, and other basic needs filled, such as some forms of basic education beyond K-12, and the ability to make a smooth transition when voluntarily changing careers.
Money and Life Purpose
Money and life purpose seem to be sometimes circular topics that spiral in opposite directions, at least they seem to have always been for me. What I wanted to do for work was not what I found I must do to make money. Or, when I finally had a little more money, suddenly I’d have…
What is going on with Arctic sea ice?
A rather concerning look at sea ice in the Arctic: Sea ice is an important driver for global weather, and depends on an upper layer of fresher water to form in the first place. In other words it’s self-perpetuating. If summer sea ice disappears, the winter sea ice may not be as likely to form…
A thousand disguises
We meet ourselves time and time again in a thousand disguises on the path of life. ~Carl Jung I always feel as if Halloween/Samhain is really the end of the year, and a new one begins in November. Maybe that’s how it was at some time or other in some civilization or another. I feel…
The Song of Wandering Aengus
The Song of Wandering Aengus
by William Butler Yeats
“I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
Red Dragonfly
Yesterday a Red Dragonfly visited. It flew into my side yard while I sat idling, taking a break from the internet and my dependence on it, thinking about spending the rest of the day knitting. I sat there looking at our avocado trees, which currently include three new, young ones, two in the ground, one…
Saving Captain Kirk
Ever since all the reading I did about journal writing recently, I’ve been fascinated with diaries and letters (again – as a teen I soaked up collections of Anne Morrow Lindberg’s letters as well as several memoirs by others, the most unforgettable for me being Jane Goodall’s account of life with the wild chimpanzees, In…
Eternity’s Sunrise
Review: Eternity’s Sunrise: A Way of Keeping a Diary by Marion Milner. This was a satisfying read in that the author was aging at this point and became if possible even more introspective, and it was fascinating to follow the delight she took in seemingly simple things but on a much deeper level.