“I of my own knowledge…”

“The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”

Wordsworth wrote that 200 years ago, before telegraph, telephone, radio, television, or fax machines, let alone PCs, internet and PDAs. He should see us now!

I awoke this morning dissatisfied, aware that once again I had allowed myself to shallow out, aiming my attention outward rather than inward, toward ephemeral things rather than enduring ones. Or, as Henry Thoreau puts it in “Life Without Principle”:

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Digital cameras have certainly revolutionized the orb-chasing business. This from an email via a friend, who had received it from a friend who had gone to the election night Obama rally in Grant Park in Chicago. There were more photos but I have limited the number to three (and turned them from bitmaps to JPEGs) for the sake of practicality.

“When we were on our way home from the rally Tuesday, we ran into a couple of ladies on the train that had taken some pictures I wanted to share with a few people.

“The lady who took these didn’t believe in this stuff beforehand, but does now. These are some amazing orb shots from the Grant Park rally the other night. I shot these from her camera screen with my video camera, because I didn’t have my regular camera on me at the time. But you get the gist when you see them. Lots of happy souls out there.”

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I don’t know who the person below is. This was sent me by a friend. I am going to assume it is genuine. It matches my personal experiences and those of my friends.

How I wish I could get to the people who are in fear because of this election and tell them, “be strong and of good courage, be not afraid, neither be dismayed.” We’ve done a very good thing regardless how this presidency works out.

Hello,

The world rejoices with us. I wanted to share this with every one in my address book. My daughter Brook works in Thailand and traveled back to there from a conference. The following is her report of her day yesterday.

Katherine

My dear friends,

Today I have had to travel from the island of Borneo…from SABAH and the town of Kota Kinabalu. Then to Kuala Lumpur where I had a 5 hour lay over and finally arriving very late at night in Bangkok. The election has already begun….

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She was never one of our authors, but like others in the field we are indebted to her. This obit from the New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/books/05ferguson.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

Marilyn Ferguson, New Age Author, Dies at 70

By WILLIAM GRIMES
Published: November 4, 2008

Marilyn Ferguson, whose 1980 book “The Aquarian Conspiracy” became a bible of the New Age movement, died on Oct. 19 at her home in Banning, Calif. She was 70.

The cause was believed to be a heart attack, said her daughter Kristin Ferguson Smith, of Los Angeles.

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A friend’s comment on the election sent me remembering a poem I wrote years ago that is, perhaps, not nearly as true today as it was then.

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