20 November 2022

Jamál, 17 Qudrat (Power), 179 B.E

Seen

Stand of Chinese silver grass (Miscanthus sinensis) in the late afternoon sun.

Done

Set up spreadsheets in Apple Numbers for cataloging books and records. Entered all the books and records sorted so far into the spreadsheets. Linked each entry to a note in Evernote and the Daily Log post in Ulysses and Micro.blog in which it appears. Saved the bibliographic information for each book in Zotero. Now, it’s much easier to navigate from one to the other as needed. Yay!

Noted

Astral Prospecting on Instagram | Astral Prospecting on YouTube | Astral Prospecting on Facebook

Marc Bosserman on Instagram | Marc Bosserman on Facebook | Marc Bosserman Music and Musings on YouTube

Tab’s Galaxy on YouTube

Listened

Bryan Adams - Reckless

Notes by Discogs.com

Read

Abbott, Morris W. Cog Railway to Pike’s Peak. 9th Printing 1979. San Marino, Calif: Golden West Books, 1973. http://archive.org/details/cograilwaytopike0000abbo.

Bookmarked

Online Workshop from Colectiva El Cambalache, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3TBzi-qW5k.

Invitation to the Gathering Autonomies in Practice in San Cristóbal de Las Casas Chiapas, 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My0xKHVLcq8.

Garland, Susan B. “‘Do You Really Want to Rebuild at 80?’ Rethinking Where to Retire.” The New York Times, November 18, 2022, sec. Business. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/business/where-to-retire-climate-change.html.

Gil, Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, and Ochy Curiel Pichardo. “ENCUENTRO AUTONOMÍAS EN PRÁCTICA: economías, identidades, artes, tierras y territorios que sanan,” November 2022, 5. https://cambalache.noblogs.org/files/2022/10/Informacion.pdf

Hedges, Chris. “Reading Proust in War.” Substack newsletter. The Chris Hedges Report (blog), November 20, 2022. https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/reading-proust-in-war.

Sinclair, Peter. “Video Examines Issues Involving Jet Stream Role in Extreme Weather » Yale Climate Connections.” Yale Climate Connections, November 18, 2022. http://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/11/video-examines-issues-involving-jet-stream-role-in-extreme-weather/.

Tooze, Adam. “Chartbook #173: Barred from Employment - How Criminalization Blights American Lives.” Substack newsletter. Chartbook (blog), November 19, 2022. https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-173-barred-from-employment.

Autonomies. “Autonomies.” Accessed November 20, 2022. https://autonomies.org/.

Climate Trace. “Emissions Map - Climate TRACE.” Accessed November 20, 2022. https://climatetrace.org/map.

El Cambalache: inter-cambiamos. “Gathering Autonomies in Practice 2023/ Encuentro Autonomías en Práctica 2023.” Accessed November 20, 2022. https://cambalache.noblogs.org/post/2022/11/15/gathering-autonomies-in-practice-2023-encuentro-autonomias-en-practica-2023/.

L4Ecozoic. “Gathering Autonomies in Practice: Economies, Identities, Arts, Land and Territories That Heal.” Accessed November 20, 2022. https://www.l4ecozoic.org/events/gathering-autonomies-in-practice-economies-identities-arts-land-and-territories-that-heal.

Proyecto Cambalache. “Proyecto Comedor.” Accessed November 20, 2022. https://proyectocambalache.org.

Facebook. “Tiendita Colectiva El Cambalache | San Cristóbal de Las Casas.” Accessed November 20, 2022. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100075756351714.

El Cambalache: Inter-Cambiamos. “Economía sin dinero, desarmando el capitalismo,” 2022. https://cambalache.noblogs.org/.

Sorted

Completed cataloging one box of 42 books. I’ll only keep a few and the rest will go. I have two more boxes to catalog before I determine what goes in the first wave. I hate to admit how many “waves” there are, but it’s a bunch!

Quoted

After every night there is a morn. In the supreme wisdom of God it is decreed that when the gross darkness of religious hatred and hostility, the obscurity of religious ignorance, superstition and blind imitations cover the world, the Sun of Truth shall arise and the spirit of reality become manifest and reflected in human hearts. At such a time as this Bahá’u’lláh appeared upon the horizon of the Orient. For fifty years He endured the greatest hardships and ordeals, ever striving to dispel the darkness of religious conditions, to remove the cause of enmity and rancor, to awaken the world of humanity from the beds of negligence and heedlessness by the flashing light of the glorious glad tidings and trumpet tone of the heavenly call and summons. For the spread of this message He offered His life and bore every vicissitude.… He was always under the threat and menace of the sword, yet He uplifted the standard of divine teachings and flooded the world of the East with illumination. In the Orient today the light of the heavenly glad tidings is visible everywhere, the divine call is heard, the effulgence of the Sun of Reality is shining, the precious rain is pouring down from the clouds of mercy, and the breaths of the Holy Spirit are bestowing fresh life upon the hearts of men. Erelong the darkness will pass away entirely, and the regions of the East will become completely illumined; enmity, hatred, ignorance and bigotry will no longer remain; the satanic powers which destroy human equality and religious unity will be dethroned, and the nations will dwell in peace and harmony under the overspreading banner of the oneness of humanity. Therefore, we supplicate the Lord our God with sincere and contrite hearts, asking aid and assistance in the accomplishment of this mighty end: that the nations shall be unified in the Word of God; that war, enmity and hatred between races, religions, native lands and denominations shall disappear and be forever unknown; and that peoples and nations shall spiritually embrace each other in the indissoluble bond and power of the love of God. Then will the world of humanity become radiant and the human race enjoy to the fullest capacity the graces of divine bestowal. So long as religious discord and enmity continue among mankind, the world of humanity will find neither happiness, rest nor composure.

Pray that God may assist in this heavenly undertaking, that the world of mankind shall be saved from the ordeals of ignorance, blindness and spiritual death. Then will you behold light upon light, joy upon joy, absolute happiness reigning everywhere, the people of the religions consorting together in fragrance and felicity, this world in its maturity becoming the reflection of the eternal Kingdom and this terrestrial abode of man the very paradise of God. Pray for this! Pray for this! ¹