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10/28/2025

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10/28/2025

'Sold out' and 'betrayed': Virginia farmer calls Trump 'weak' as he flees US during shutdown
Source: Alternet

As President Donald Trump is in the midst of a trip to multiple Asian countries, one Virginia-based soybean farmer is accusing him of weakness in standing

10/26/2025

"Never be afraid
to let someone know
if they brightened the room
they just walked into.

Or if something they said
inspired you to change.

Never be embarrassed
to share a compliment with a stranger
and don't ever fall into the trap of believing
that the people you love know that.

Say it.

Always say it

Your words may land a little awkwardly at first
but in the dark of the night
those seeds will plant themselves
into someone's mental garden
and start to germinate
gather strength and bloom.

Sow seeds
wherever you go.

There is nothing better you can do with your words
than plant a precious seed."
Donna Ashworth - Say It (Life)

Artist: Laura Hamilton

Paired by Whispers from the Heart

10/26/2025

"In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. There is a tendency to fall into being weakened by dwelling on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails. We are needed, that is all we can know. And though we meet resistance, we more so will meet great souls who will hail us, love us and guide us, and we will know them when they appear. Didn't you say you were a believer? Didn't you say you pledged to listen to a voice greater? Didn't you ask for grace? Don't you remember that to be in grace means to submit to the voice greater?

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take "everyone on Earth" to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.

One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these - to be fierce and to show mercy toward others, both, are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.

There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it; I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate. The reason is this: In my uttermost bones I know something, as do you. It is that there can be no despair when you remember why you came to Earth, who you serve, and who sent you here. The good words we say and the good deeds we do are not ours: They are the words and deeds of the One who brought us here. In that spirit, I hope you will write this on your wall:
When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for. This comes with much love and a prayer that you remember who you came from, and why you came to this beautiful, needful Earth."
Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Artist: Christian Schloe Digital Artwork - Journey

Paired by

10/22/2025

“Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in light out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.” ~ Eugène Ionesco 🍂 🌧️✨

Artwork: Günesia on Pinterest 🎨🖌

10/21/2025

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-Reliance

Artist: Maggie Vandewalle Watercolors

Paired by Whispers from the Heart

10/21/2025

Sacred memory

10/21/2025

10/21/2025

CULTIVATE HEART 💚 I want the heart back in our United States before we grow any more dis-united. The America that I love is one filled with small businesses, rural economies and people that will do all they can to reach out and help a neighbor. People that just try to do the right thing. These are the American values that I know are in the hearts of most people in both political parties. As a nation of big hearts and a sense of justice, we created laws to maintain a civil society. Road signs to obey, social security, liberty and justice for all.

I believe in our 2-party system with checks and balances because the history of our nation has taught us that this is what keeps our government the in service of WE THE PEOPLE... A government that works to advance civilization instead of falling into anarchy fueled by the highest bidder or the angriest voice. I want our middle class back, along with environmental strategies that prioritize stewardship of our shared natural resources as goals for the common good.
The bigger the mainstream gets, the more room there is for an undercurrent. In our local economies, heart is back at the center. That’s why we say, ‘know your farmer’ and why we stand by the local hardware store owner and family restauranteur who stands by us in return. I believe that big-hearted America is the majority.

Hate is literally a cultural dis-ease. Our nation was formed around laws for the common good and an understanding that we must work together to define common threads that form a civil society. The value of living in the UNITED States is knowing that WE have a voice as individuals that moderate this system of checks, balances and necessary bureaucracies. Voices, hopefully equipped with kind hearts, so that we can take down the inflammation of a nation and advocate for a civil society working as responsible stewards for the common good. A nation with this much pride should insist that a sense of well-being and peace of mind best define a quality-of-life worth working for. This weekend let's use our gardener superpowers to plant the seeds of peace for living together on the common ground we share.

The Heirloom Gardener - John Forti 🇺🇸
Cultivating Heart ~ Artist, Enkel Dika

10/21/2025

"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up."
Stephen Hawking

Artist: Maggie Vandewalle Watercolors

Paired by Whispers from the Heart