Good Afternoon Digital Neighbors! Happy Saturday and first day of Autumn to all you ADD Irregulars, WSN Curators, Friends & Refugees, PHAM & Misfits, Conversants & Lurkers, Wanderers, Seekers and Lost. Whoever you are and wherevers you are, I am glad we crossed paths here.
Autumn is my favorite season, few things can compete with the changes that Autumn brings in life. I love the foliage, the final gasp of nature before the winter, the brisk mornings and evenings that make hoodies and bonfires so appealing and fields being cleared at various harvest times. Few seasons remind us that change can be a beautiful thing and that even letting go can yield a harvest rather than just a loss. Autumn and all its joys are one of those things in life that heals my soul and self.
I hope you have a list of the things that heal your soul and self. Life is always pulling at us, and more often than not it is feeling of being pulled apart or pulled away from that mysterious center where we find peace and reasonable contentment. Reasonable contentment, not complacency, nor resignation, but a feeling of being rooted in a good place in your life even with all its imperfections. Life is far from perfect, and we live in a clown world, but that need not shake us from the sense of contentment that can come from the things that heal soul and self.
My list
Faith and all that it entails, no surprise there.
Laughter, the shortest distance between two people
Friends, those dearest to me and the many more in close orbit
Beauty, in nature, in music, in people, in the arts
Animals, especially my pets
Good stories, in books, movies or played in RPGs
What's you list? I don't really expect a response, just an invitation to examine you own list of the things that make us whole.
Autumn Barn from a random Brave search.
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
Padre - Tom Miller invites you to a Coffee Talk, Speakeasies, Schmoozes, Tea Times, Afterhours and other gatherings.
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2026 Coffee Talk with the ADD Irregulars
Thursday, January 1, 2026
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Quite apart from the fact that I utterly admire, even love, her, this is the best possible response to an idiot, who, in his defense, asked a pretty good question.
https://x.com/TBifford/status/2087992591279407133/video/1?s=61
The Beautiful
Said the Disciple to the Lover, “Sir, before I left the world I heard certain men who were held in high esteem and thought to know the will of the Beloved say that those who loved the Beautiful did not love the Beloved but loved idols, yet in the Garden of the Beloved we are ever striving to create beauty for the pleasure of the Beloved. Were they then speaking the truth?”
The Lover answered, “Those who said this had never glimpsed the form of the Beloved nor ever truly sought Him, for all beauty is but the reflection of the beauty of the Beloved, although seen very dimly as in a dark and faulty mirror, even as all goodness is a dim reflection of the goodness of the Beloved. So it is that those who love beauty and goodness recognize dimly in them the form of the Beloved and though often in ignorance those who are seeking the Beautiful and the Good are seeking after the Beloved.”
