Mythos & Marginalia

2015 – 2025: a decade of days


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  • the ugly truth

  • like this day

    Sixteen times per minute,
    twenty-two thousand breaths
    in a day. No time 
    like the present. 
    There are no other excuses, but 
    there are always other ways. 
    Breathe. Choose today 
    to speak up when you can, 
    push out the latent sorrow, 
    guilt, and anguish 
    only you can understand. 
    Inhale. There is no life, no 
    oxygen, like this day. Despite 
    our selected perceptions, 
    there is not a 
    single breath to waste.

  • fresh start for 2025

  • starting over

    As we prepare to greet another year, looking ahead with both enthusiasm and uncertainty, it is an opportune time to reflect on what got us where we are. 

    Do not do so with regret. 

    What has happened has passed; the apprehension and anxieties that have dogged us in the past are better left unsaid. There is so much value in starting over. 

    In the process of rediscovering (even reinventing) who you are, find clarity in both your actions and intent. Disappointments and delusions will certainly have a say (they often do) but continue stepping forward anyway.

    2025 is a fresh start.

    May this coming year give you even more to think about. Enjoy each day.

    12/29/2024 j.g.l.

  • my wish for peace

    How can we speak of peace when war rages in parts of this world, even on Christmas Day?

    As unequivocally unjust is the appalling, mean-spirited political propaganda on this side of the ocean; it never ends.

    Yesterday, as I did the days before, I repeated, again, my wish for peace.

    Today I am left humbled and humiliated.

    How can we dream of a world not polarized by hate?

    We can only try.

    One by one, we can only dream.

    Has there ever been a time, in our lifetimes, where peace is more important than it is now?

    12/26/2024 j.g.l.