True happiness is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Helen Keller 

It doesn’t matter how scared you are; everyone is scared. Work. Work is the only thing that takes the curse of fear away.

JERRY SALTZ

FOXBORO YMCA is Looking for an AQUATICS DIRECTOR

The Hockomock Area YMCA is hiring a full-time Aquatics Director for its Foxboro Invensys Branch in Foxborough, Massachusetts.  

Hockomock Area YMCA Staff Family Page

67 Mechanic Street Foxboro, Massachusetts (508) 543-2523  

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, What are you going through?
― Simone Weil

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
― Simone Weil

Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.
― Simone Weil

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.
― Simone Weil, Waiting for God

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
― Simone Weil

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.
― Simone Weil

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but it is also their means of communication. … Every separation is a link.
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.
― Simone Weil

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.
― Simone Weil

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
― Simone Weil

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

  ― Simone Weil

 

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
― Simone Weil

 Simone Weil: Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer. 

An act of pure attention, if you are capable of it, will bring its own answer. And you choose that object to concentrate upon which will best focus your consciousness. D.H. Lawrence

Idol Worship

My mother ran to her bed and sobbed the day the light blue Volvo was delivered. She had ordered Navy blue!

She sobbed during late night movies but never when we were beat up by bullies.

Objects, furniture and photographs were more important than her children. 

These were advertising people after all. 

It was all about how it looked and never about reality.

Isn't this what is called idol worship? 

Anger Was Against the Law

Anger was against the law for me when I was a child. 

Not for my parents who raged, kicked the wall breaking a toe, screeched the car stuck in the ice, smashed plates, but for us kids.  NO ANGER ALLOWED. NO QUESTIONS ALLOWED.

When the dog vomited my father said "rub his face in it,," as if he did it on purpose, if that would teach him a lesson. But he is sick, it is no fault of his.

He needs love.

I ran away and adopted a dog. My source of family love to this day. 

My mother advised that I throw all of my roommates belongings out of the third floor apartment window when she was taking too much time to move out after not paying rent. I said that would not be helpful.

What should have been against the law was giving us enemas and taking our temperature with anal thermometers well into our double digit years and subjecting us to public humiliation and unnecessary medical care and humiliating comments in front of all of the relatives and guests. 

Then abandoning us on a daily basis including weekends and summers.

 I give myself permission to rage on the page for as much time as I need. Whenever I want.

 I call it cancer prevention.