From my walk on the beach this morning…
Another rock, sand, water…
Sunrise…
Sand drawing by mother nature…
List of Christmas movies watched so far…
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Christmas in Connecticut
- The Bishops Wife
- White Christmas
- Elf
- Die Hard
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- Home Alone
- Christmas Chronicles
- Love Actually
- Klaus
- Love Hard
- The Lion in Winter
- Scooged
- Meet Me In St. Louis
Sand, stone and sea…
From yesterday…
Wondering if the proposed cure is as bad as the disease…
From this morning…
Moon and clouds this morning…
Morning coffee at Odd Fellow Cafe… the weather outside is frightful. Winds 40 mph. No ⛴️ today! What luck that we booked passage yesterday on the only ferry not buffeted by wind and wave or outright canceled this week.
Waiting for the ferry to Block Island…
Local creek. When the level is up it’s quite the boiling and churning cauldron of water.
Left about 5 AM this morning for Block Island RI. We will spend Christmas there. Stopped at Linda’s for breakfast sandwiches before picking up Mother in Law, fresh out of hospital. We are charged with helping her build strength and put on weight. We can do that!
From this AM…
On a different note, for the past year I have been vacillating between Drafts and Obsidian as a place to gather my readings, quotes and notes. I have landed firmly in Obsidian as the amazing richness of its capabilitties becomes ever clearer.
Books Read: Sacred Economics, Revised: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein 📚
Concentration of wealth –– both income and assets –– is an inescapable corollary of debt growing faster than goods and services. Certainly, governments can neutralize wealth concentration through redistributive taxation, but the underlying tendency will always be there.
Books Read: Sacred Economics, Revised: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein 📚
Here’s another way to see it: because debt is always greater than money supply, the creation of money creates a future need for even more money. The amount of money must grow overtime; new money goes to those who will produce goods and services; therefore, the volume of goods and services must grow overtime as well.
Books Read: Sacred Economics, Revised: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein 📚
There can never be a time when we reach “enough,” because in an interest based debt system, credit exchange is not just “goods now for goods in the future,” but goods now for more goods in the future. To service debt, or just to live, either you take existing wealth from someone else (hence, competition) or you create “new” wealth by drawing from the commons.
Books Read: Sacred Economics, Revised: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein 📚
The imperative of perpetual growth, implicit in interest-based money is what drives the relentless conversion of life, world, and spirit into money. Completing the vicious cycle, the more of life we convert into money, the more we need money to live. Usury, not money, is the proverbial root of all evil.
Books Read: Sacred Economics, Revised: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein 📚
This morning my mind was blown. I read the chapter on usury (interest) and debt. For the first time in my life I understand the connection between money supply, interest, and the imperative that the economy must grow. It was a revelation.
Tonight’s Christmas movie… Watch Planes, Trains and Automobiles - Prime Video
Second yoga class of the week. Continue to find muscles I’d forgotten were there… namaste 🙏
Still a work in progress but closer to final form. It’s good to be back to making books.
List of Christmas movies watched so far…
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Christmas in Connecticut
- The Bishops Wife
- White Christmas
- Elf
- Die Hard