By Nicole Chavez, CNN

January 18, 2021 (cnn.com)

(CNN)More than a half a century has passed since Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial calling for freedom and equality — and the fight for social justice appears to be far from over.

CNN asked activists and athletes fighting for equality in the Black, Latino, Asian American, Native American and Muslim American communities to reflect on King’s words and his legacy at a time when America is deeply divided after last year’s racial reckoning and the insurrection at the US Capitol earlier this month.

Each of them selected a quote from the civil rights movement leader and shared why it resonates with them. Here are their responses, some of which have been edited for clarity:

DoloresHuerta

Huerta, a Mexican American civil rights icon, formed a farmworkers union with Cesar Chavez and is president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation. She chose a quote from a Dr. King’s speech titled “The Three Evils of Society.”

Why did Huerta pick that quote?

“Racism is a sickness. Many Americans with that sickness stormed the nation’s Capitol recently as racism feeds fascism. Racism stems from ignorance and creates, hate, fear violence and destruction,” Huerta said.

“Dr. Martin Luther King warned us that racism threatened the very foundation of our democracy. Racism began with slavery, the oppression of workers, the subjugation of women and children.”

Huerta said that a national effort is needed to save the United States’ democracy from fascism and to end the racism which “is so ingrained in our body politic.”

“We have no choice but to heal.”

Patrisse Cullors

Cullors is an artist, political strategist and co-founder and executive director of Black Lives Matter. She chose a quote from Dr. King’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”

Why did Cullors pick that quote?

“On January 6, the world witnessed a failed attempted coup by White supremacists extremists. These are the same people who have taunted, humiliated and threatened Black Lives Matter members and our leadership. And while these White supremacists are scary and dangerous, our movement has historically seen the White liberal as a barrier to the freedom of Black people,” Cullors said.

“To keep it plain. We need White folks to show up. Showing up in more ways than just saying ‘Black Lives Matter’ or putting ‘Black Lives Matter’ on their social media,” Cullors added.

“We need white folks to show up by following the leadership of Black folks, the very same Black folks who have transformed this country over and over again. On this MLK day let’s remind ourselves that Black people deserve dignity, care and power.”

Nneka Ogwumike

Ogwumike is a WNBA player and president of the Women’s National Basketball Players Association. She chose the following quote:

Why did Ogwumike pick those words?

“It is not enough for good people to know they are good for goodness to take place,” she said. “We must hold ourselves to actionable accountability that plants the seeds for sustainable change; allowing both its roots and branches to grow over time, naturally and intentionally.”

Nihad Awad

Awad is the national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. He chose a quote from Dr. King’s book “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings.”

Why did Awad pick those words?

He said the quote speaks to the “five years of indoctrination and lies by (President) Donald Trump and his enablers created a poisonous environment in which millions of Americans believe in falsehoods and conspiracy theories that make our society and the world less stable and less peaceful.”

Sruti Suryanarayanan

Suryanarayanan is a spokesperson for the advocacy group South Asian Americans Leading Together. She chose a few sentences from Dr. King’s 1967 book “Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?”

Why did Suryanarayanan pick those words?

“Building a just world starts with the abolition of White supremacy, in all its forms — structural, institutional, and personal,” Suryanarayanan said. “But as non-Black people of color, we must also unpack and combat our own complicity in White supremacy and American imperialism. Without the deconstruction of anti-Black racism, no liberation is possible.”

Kimberlé Crenshaw

Crenshaw is the co-founder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum. She chose a quote from Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

Why did Crenshaw pick that quote?

“Martin Luther King Jr.’s framing of the failures and promises of America makes clear how the nation’s unaddressed deficits become the justification for even greater disenfranchisement and expropriation. The right-wing attacks on his dream and the physical embodiment of the ideological assault on multicultural democracy that we witnessed last week are a repudiation of the very idea that there exists a ‘promissory note’,” Crenshaw said.

“King was often critical — most famously in his ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’ — of those moderates who chronically advocated for a ‘more convenient season’ to pursue racial justice. On this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, we should acknowledge — in the face of so much tragedy and depravity — that we are never going to be in a stable position when it comes to injustice. And it is from the illusion of stability that the further deterioration of Black people’s material status occurs. The fight for justice must continue — always.”

Crystal Echo Hawk

Echo Hawk is the founder and executive director of IllumiNative, a national Native-led non-profit group. She chose an excerpt from Dr. King’s book “Why We Can’t Wait.”

Why did Echo Hawk pick that quote?

“Dr. King taught us that racial injustice in the United States started with the arrival of colonizers on Native land. The violence these settlers used first against Indigenous peoples, then against Black slaves, was predicated on White supremacist beliefs. White supremacy is upheld by false origin myths about the United States, ignored by whitewashing brutal anti-Native and anti-Black policies, and sustained by stereotyped, inaccurate portrayals of Native people and people of color in popular culture,” Echo Hawk said.

“To create a just world, all people of every race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender expression, and age, must stand together and tell truthful stories about our past and hopeful stories about our future.”

A’ja Wilson

Wilson, who plays for the WNBA’s Las Vegas Aces, is a member of the league’s Social Justice Council. She is also the founder of A’ja Wilson Foundation, which supports children who struggle with dyslexia. She chose a Dr. King quote that gives her hope.

Why did Wilson pick that quote?

“There is so much going on in the world right now. So many disappointing, tragic and gut-wrenching moments,” Wilson said. “We all have to keep our foot on the gas but historically, we have always come together as a people to celebrate the wins, big or small, and that’s one of the greatest things about our culture. We can never give up.”

Jaren Jackson Jr.

Jackson Jr. plays for the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies. He chose a Dr. King quote that he said “resonated” with him the most.

Why did Jackson Jr. pick that quote?

“This quote resonated with me the most given our current climate because we have become so polarized. We no longer sit down and have conversations about our differences and as Dr. King said it is purely out of fear of what we don’t know about each other,” Jackson Jr. said.

“I believe in order for us to move past the horrible events of the past few months as well as the past several decades, we need to have open and honest dialogue. (We need) a conversation where no matter your race, religion, sexual orientation or any other difference, we listen with compassion and find a common ground. If the pandemic taught us nothing else, we must value time and we must talk to each other. We can’t let fear dictate who we are. We gotta be better than that. It’s time to achieve Dr. King’s dream.”

(Contributed by Sarah Flynn)

ThinkingAllowedTV Arthur M. Young, born in 1905, is the inventor of the Bell Helicopter. He is also founder of the Institute for the Study of Consciousness in Berkeley, California, and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning. Here he states that insights about angular relationships were very important in the development of the helicopter and led him to develop a model in which the measure formulae of physics are expressed in a manner isomorphic to the signs of the zodiac.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Because a tachyon would always travel faster than light, it would not be possible to see it approaching. After a tachyon has passed nearby, an observer would be able to see two images of it, appearing and departing in opposite directions. The black line is the shock wave of Cherenkov radiation, shown only in one moment of time. This double-image effect is most prominent for an observer located directly in the path of a superluminal object (in this example it is a sphere, shown in grey). The right-hand bluish shape is the image formed by the blue doppler-shifted light arriving at the observer — who is located at the apex of the black Cherenkov lines — from the sphere as it approaches. The left-hand reddish image is formed from red-shifted light that leaves the sphere after it passes the observer. Because the object arrives before the light, the observer sees nothing until the sphere starts to pass the observer, after which the image-as-seen-by-the-observer splits into two—one of the arriving sphere (to the right) and one of the departing sphere (to the left).
Composition	Elementary particles
Status	hypothetical
Theorized	1967
Mass	imaginary

A tachyon (/ˈtækiɒn/) or tachyonic particle is a hypothetical particle that always travels faster than light. Most physicists believe that faster-than-light particles cannot exist because they are not consistent with the known laws of physics.^[1][2] If such particles did exist, they could be used to build a tachyonic antitelephone and send signals faster than light, which (according to special relativity) would lead to violations of causality.^[2] No experimental evidence for the existence of such particles has been found.

E. C. G. Sudarshan, V.K Deshpande and Baidyanath Misra were the first to propose the existence of particles faster than light and named them “meta-particles”. After that the possibility of particles moving faster than light was also proposed by Robert Ehrlich and Arnold Sommerfeld, independently of each other. In the 1967 paper that coined the term,^[3] Gerald Feinberg proposed that tachyonic particles could be quanta of a quantum field with imaginary mass. However, it was soon realized that excitations of such imaginary mass fields do not under any circumstances propagate faster than light,^[4] and instead the imaginary mass gives rise to an instability known as tachyon condensation.^[1] Nevertheless, in modern physics the term tachyon often refers to imaginary mass fields rather than to faster-than-light particles.^[1][5] Such fields have come to play a significant role in modern physics.

The term comes from the Greek: ταχύ, tachy, meaning rapid. The complementary particle types are called luxons (which always move at the speed of light) and bradyons (which always move slower than light); both of these particle types are known to exist.

Tachyons in relativity theory

In special relativity, a faster-than-light particle would have space-like four-momentum,^[3] in contrast to ordinary particles that have time-like four-momentum. Although in some theories the mass of tachyons is regarded as imaginary, in some modern formulations the mass is considered real,^[6][7][8] the formulas for the momentum and energy being redefined to this end. Moreover, since tachyons are constrained to the spacelike portion of the energy–momentum graph, they could not slow down to subluminal speeds.^[3]

Mass

Main articles: Mass § Tachyonic particles and imaginary (complex) mass, and Tachyonic field

In a Lorentz invariant theory, the same formulas that apply to ordinary slower-than-light particles (sometimes called “bradyons” in discussions of tachyons) must also apply to tachyons. In particular the energy–momentum relation:{\displaystyle E^{2}=(pc)^{2}+(mc^{2})^{2}\;}

(where p is the relativistic momentum of the bradyon and m is its rest mass) should still apply, along with the formula for the total energy of a particle:{\displaystyle E={\frac {mc^{2}}{\sqrt {1-{\frac {v^{2}}{c^{2}}}}}}.}

This equation shows that the total energy of a particle (bradyon or tachyon) contains a contribution from its rest mass (the “rest mass–energy”) and a contribution from its motion, the kinetic energy. When v is larger than c, the denominator in the equation for the energy is imaginary, as the value under the radical is negative. Because the total energy must be real,^{[dubious – discuss]} the numerator must also be imaginary: i.e. the rest mass m must be imaginary, as a pure imaginary number divided by another pure imaginary number is a real number.

In some modern formulations of the theory, the mass of tachyons is regarded as real.^[6][7][8]

Speed

One curious effect is that, unlike ordinary particles, the speed of a tachyon increases as its energy decreases. In particular, {\displaystyle E} approaches zero when {\displaystyle v} approaches infinity. (For ordinary bradyonic matter, E increases with increasing speed, becoming arbitrarily large as v approaches c, the speed of light). Therefore, just as bradyons are forbidden to break the light-speed barrier, so too are tachyons forbidden from slowing down to below c, because infinite energy is required to reach the barrier from either above or below.

As noted by Albert Einstein, Tolman, and others, special relativity implies that faster-than-light particles, if they existed, could be used to communicate backwards in time.^[9]

Neutrinos

In 1985, Chodos proposed that neutrinos can have a tachyonic nature.^[10] The possibility of standard model particles moving at superluminal speeds can be modeled using Lorentz invariance violating terms, for example in the Standard-Model Extension.^[11][12][13] In this framework, neutrinos experience Lorentz-violating oscillations and can travel faster than light at high energies. This proposal was strongly criticized.^[14]

Cherenkov radiation

A tachyon with an electric charge would lose energy as Cherenkov radiation^[15]—just as ordinary charged particles do when they exceed the local speed of light in a medium (other than a hard vacuum). A charged tachyon traveling in a vacuum, therefore, undergoes a constant proper time acceleration and, by necessity, its world line forms a hyperbola in space-time. However reducing a tachyon’s energy increases its speed, so that the single hyperbola formed is of two oppositely charged tachyons with opposite momenta (same magnitude, opposite sign) which annihilate each other when they simultaneously reach infinite speed at the same place in space. (At infinite speed, the two tachyons have no energy each and finite momentum of opposite direction, so no conservation laws are violated in their mutual annihilation. The time of annihilation is frame dependent.)

Even an electrically neutral tachyon would be expected to lose energy via gravitational Cherenkov radiation (unless gravitons are themselves tachyons), because it has a gravitational mass, and therefore increases in speed as it travels, as described above. If the tachyon interacts with any other particles, it can also radiate Cherenkov energy into those particles. Neutrinos interact with the other particles of the Standard Model, and Andrew Cohen and Sheldon Glashow used this to argue that the faster-than-light neutrino anomaly cannot be explained by making neutrinos propagate faster than light, and must instead be due to an error in the experiment.^[16] Further investigation of the experiment showed that the results were indeed erroneous.

Causality

Causality is a fundamental principle of physics. If tachyons can transmit information faster than light, then according to relativity they violate causality, leading to logical paradoxes of the “kill your own grandfather” type. This is often illustrated with thought experiments such as the “tachyon telephone paradox”^[9] or “logically pernicious self-inhibitor.”^[17]

The problem can be understood in terms of the relativity of simultaneity in special relativity, which says that different inertial reference frames will disagree on whether two events at different locations happened “at the same time” or not, and they can also disagree on the order of the two events (technically, these disagreements occur when the spacetime interval between the events is ‘space-like’, meaning that neither event lies in the future light cone of the other).^[18]

If one of the two events represents the sending of a signal from one location and the second event represents the reception of the same signal at another location, then as long as the signal is moving at the speed of light or slower, the mathematics of simultaneity ensures that all reference frames agree that the transmission-event happened before the reception-event.^[18] However, in the case of a hypothetical signal moving faster than light, there would always be some frames in which the signal was received before it was sent so that the signal could be said to have moved backward in time. Because one of the two fundamental postulates of special relativity says that the laws of physics should work the same way in every inertial frame, if it is possible for signals to move backward in time in any one frame, it must be possible in all frames. This means that if observer A sends a signal to observer B which moves faster than light in A’s frame but backwards in time in B’s frame, and then B sends a reply which moves faster than light in B’s frame but backwards in time in A’s frame, it could work out that A receives the reply before sending the original signal, challenging causality in every frame and opening the door to severe logical paradoxes.^[19] Mathematical details can be found in the tachyonic antitelephone article, and an illustration of such a scenario using spacetime diagrams can be found in Baker, R. (2003)^[20]

Reinterpretation principle

The reinterpretation principle^[3][21][19] asserts that a tachyon sent back in time can always be reinterpreted as a tachyon traveling forward in time, because observers cannot distinguish between the emission and absorption of tachyons. The attempt to detect a tachyon from the future (and violate causality) would actually create the same tachyon and send it forward in time (which is causal).

However, this principle is not widely accepted as resolving the paradoxes.^[9][19][22] Instead, what would be required to avoid paradoxes is that unlike any known particle, tachyons do not interact in any way and can never be detected or observed, because otherwise a tachyon beam could be modulated and used to create an anti-telephone^[9] or a “logically pernicious self-inhibitor”.^[17] All forms of energy are believed to interact at least gravitationally, and many authors state that superluminal propagation in Lorentz invariant theories always leads to causal paradoxes.^[23][24]

Fundamental models

In modern physics, all fundamental particles are regarded as excitations of quantum fields. There are several distinct ways in which tachyonic particles could be embedded into a field theory.

Fields with imaginary mass

Main article: Tachyonic field

In the paper that coined the term “tachyon”, Gerald Feinberg studied Lorentz invariant quantum fields with imaginary mass.^[3] Because the group velocity for such a field is superluminal, naively it appears that its excitations propagate faster than light. However, it was quickly understood that the superluminal group velocity does not correspond to the speed of propagation of any localized excitation (like a particle). Instead, the negative mass represents an instability to tachyon condensation, and all excitations of the field propagate subluminally and are consistent with causality.^[4] Despite having no faster-than-light propagation, such fields are referred to simply as “tachyons” in many sources.^{[1][5][25][26][27][28]}

Tachyonic fields play an important role in modern physics. Perhaps the most famous is the Higgs boson of the Standard Model of particle physics, which has an imaginary mass in its uncondensed phase. In general, the phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking, which is closely related to tachyon condensation, plays an important role in many aspects of theoretical physics, including the Ginzburg–Landau and BCS theories of superconductivity. Another example of a tachyonic field is the tachyon of bosonic string theory.^[25][27][29]

Tachyons are predicted by bosonic string theory and also the Neveu-Schwarz (NS) and NS-NS sectors, which are respectively the open bosonic sector and closed bosonic sector, of RNS Superstring theory prior to the GSO projection. However such tachyons are not possible due to the Sen conjecture, also known as tachyon condensation. This resulted in the necessity for the GSO projection.

Lorentz-violating theories

In theories that do not respect Lorentz invariance, the speed of light is not (necessarily) a barrier, and particles can travel faster than the speed of light without infinite energy or causal paradoxes.^[23] A class of field theories of that type is the so-called Standard Model extensions. However, the experimental evidence for Lorentz invariance is extremely good, so such theories are very tightly constrained.^[30][31]

Fields with non-canonical kinetic term

By modifying the kinetic energy of the field, it is possible to produce Lorentz invariant field theories with excitations that propagate superluminally.^[4][24] However, such theories, in general, do not have a well-defined Cauchy problem (for reasons related to the issues of causality discussed above), and are probably inconsistent quantum mechanically.

History

The term tachyon was coined by Gerald Feinberg in a 1967 paper titled “Possibility of Faster-Than-Light Particles”.^[3] He had been inspired by the science-fiction story “Beep” by James Blish.^[32] Feinberg studied the kinematics of such particles according to special relativity. In his paper he also introduced fields with imaginary mass (now also referred to as tachyons) in an attempt to understand the microphysical origin such particles might have.

The first hypothesis regarding faster-than-light particles is sometimes attributed to German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld in 1904,^[33] and more recent discussions happened in 1962^[21] and 1969.^[34]

In September 2011, it was reported that a tau neutrino had traveled faster than the speed of light in a major release by CERN; however, later updates from CERN on the OPERA project indicate that the faster-than-light readings were due to a faulty element of the experiment’s fibre optic timing system.^[35]

In fiction

Main article: Tachyons in fiction

Tachyons have appeared in many works of fiction. They have been used as a standby mechanism upon which many science fiction authors rely to establish faster-than-light communication, with or without reference to causality issues. The word tachyon has become widely recognized to such an extent that it can impart a science-fictional connotation even if the subject in question has no particular relation to superluminal travel (a form of technobabble, akin to positronic brain).^{[citation needed]}

More at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon

The Thunder: Perfect Mind: A New Translation and Introduction

by Hal Taussig, Jared Calaway, Maia Kotrosits, Justin Lasser, Celene Lillie 

This is the first book-length treatment in English of the Nag Hammadi text, The Thunder: Perfect Mind – a poem of “I am” statements that has garnered a strong following in mainstream culture. This book offers a fresh, current translation (with detailed Coptic annotations) and ten chapters of introductory analysis of the text. Approaching the text from socio-historical, literary, and postmodern gender-theoretical frameworks, the editors situate Thunder as an early Christian text – away from the now suspect category of “Gnosticism” – and offer conclusions on its possible ancient meanings, as well as its interpretive possibilities for the present moment.

(Goodreads.com)

Peace Love Calm PLC Poem by Marie Howe. Text and context: brainpickings.org/2020/04/23/singularity-marie-howe-animated Created for The Universe in Verse: brainpickings.org/the-universe-in-verse Produced by SALT Project (saltproject.org) with Maria Popova (brainpickings.org). Original music by Zoë Keating (zoekeating.com). This has been a multi-woman labor of love, with everyone involved donating their time and talent.

(MR.Cole_Photographer/Moment/Getty Images)

MIKE MCRAE 15 JANUARY 2021 (sciencealert.com)

This article contains a statement that I’ve never heard before, and that I find intellectually energizing: the future will be filled with quantum technology, and the research for that technology is just getting underway!

Michael Kelly, H.W.

Physicists have observed a new state of matter at work inside an elusive thread of quantum gas.

The gossamer-thin strings of gas capable of binding giants sound like items worthy of a quest in Grimms’ fairy tales. But versions of these materials are theoretically possible in physics – unfortunately though, in practice they inevitably collapse on forming.

Researchers from Stanford University in the US have now found they can create such a material that’s stable enough to resist collapsing into a cloud, even under considerable force. What’s more, they’ve identified a new state of matter at work that has only ever been seen once before – and never in quantum gas before now.

Importantly, the quantum properties of this gas might earn it a place in future generations of information technology.

The category of matter at work even has a legendary title; a super Tonks-Girardeau gas. It consists of atoms cooled to a point that they begin to lose their sense of individual identity, constrained to form a conga-line held in check by their collective forces.

Under ideal conditions, attraction between the particles within this drawn-out thread of quantum gas could keep it in line even under duress. Hence why physicists describe it as ‘super’.

Yet inside less-than-perfect laboratory equipment, even the most delicately tuned super Tonks-Girardeau gases fail to remain stable for very long, contracting into a ball in no time.

Physicist Benjamin Lev wondered if the element dysprosium would make for a more robust candidate. With one of the highest magnetic strengths on the periodic table, it might hold its own a little longer, with a little support.

“The magnetic interactions we were able to add were very weak compared to the attractive interactions already present in the gas. So, our expectations were that not much would change,” says Lev.

“Wow, were we wrong.”

It turns out a tuned super Tonks-Girardeau gas based on dysprosium is just what the hero ordered. No matter what the team did to it, it kept form.

Even cranking the quantum system into higher energy states failed to push the string into a messy haze of quantum-smeared particles.

Probing the mechanics of the process, the team soon noticed the hallmarks of a rather elusive phenomenon called quantum many-body scarring.

This weird state of matter sits somewhere between quantum chaos and the predictability of old-fashioned classical physics, and describes a world that seems counterintuitive at first glance.

A quarter of a century ago, it was discovered that in the buzz of a quantum system – where particles are everywhere and nowhere at once and individual atoms lose their sense of self – it’s possible for predictable states to emerge.

These scars resemble pathways worn across a football pitch. While players freely chase the ball all over the field, some directions seem to be preferred over others.

The perplexing thing about quantum scarring is how they fit with thermodynamics. Raise the temperature on a group of particles and they’ll simply bounce around more, redistributing the heat energy until all bodies have a roughly equal share.

Quantum many-body scarring runs counter to this rule of equilibrium, holding a preference for some states no matter how much the excitement grows around them.

The phenomenon has been seen once before in a queue of rubidium atoms, but never in a quantum gas. So finding signs of the state in a cooled string of dysprosium atoms has the potential to reveal a great deal about how bodies in a quantum system share energy.

Given we’re destined for a future filled with quantum technologies, we’re going to need to know as much as possible about how to remove heat from the computers of tomorrow.

But quantum scars could be potentially useful for the storage of quantum information in their own right, or serving as a kind of simulator in the lab for studying quantum systems.

Speculation over practical uses aside, Lev sees the work as fundamental to understanding the quantum landscape. Applications can come later.

“If you compare quantum science to where we were when we discovered what we needed to know to build chemical plants, say, it’s like we’re doing the late 19th-century work right now,” says Lev.

A quantum-scarred thread of gas is just the start of a quest into some truly amazing destinations.

This research was published in Science.

(Contributed by Michael Kelly, H.W.)

Definition of epiphany

1 capitalized: January 6 observed as a church festival in commemoration of the coming of the Magi as the first manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles or in the Eastern Church in commemoration of the baptism of Christ
2: an appearance or manifestation especially of a divine being
3a(1): a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something
(2): an intuitive grasp of reality through something (such as an event) usually simple and striking
(3): an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure
b: a revealing scene or moment

(Merriam-webster.com; contributed by Sarah Flynn)

Ned Henry January 16, 2021 · nedhenry.medium.com

So I did turn that bland hummus from Allen into Chocolate hummus. It’s kind of like Nutella. Not bad on a croissant.

JV even sent me a tee-shirt which was too small for me to actually ever wear not that I really would have had the guts to out in public anyway but around with those boys (and girls) I would for sure. It’s going in the good will box JV for next little kid obsessed with potty training. LOL. Captain Underpants reminds me that I haven’t had a good shit in several days.

It’s 8:15 AM and I woke up thinking about the war in the Middle East and just wanted hear this again.

We were singing a concert for Peace in the Middle East in 1974 and this is what 2021. How many lives have been lost over a couple of small strips of land. All people have a right to be, all of us. Where you are or how much money you have or what color you are or what God you worship doesn’t matter. I did watch PBS Newshour last night. I’ll probably keep watching that show daily to stay informed. There was a story about a new Caravan forming in Honduras by people who have been devastated by hurricanes and are desparate for some kind of life with some kind of dignity. And how many millions of folks all over the world are in a similar situation experiencing hopelessness all the time. In refugee or concentration camps or in no camp at all. It just makes me think when will we ever learn. Being is the most basic human right and must start to help each other to just be, all of us everywhere always. And we must DO that and not just talk about it and just not ruminate about how wonderful it will be. Like the kids in Parkland, Like Greta Thunberg, Like Stacy Abrams, people with outrage, courage and conviction who will lead us into a the future by DOING something. This piece of music has HOPE.

Nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. – Isaiah 2: 4

For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, so shall your seed and your name remain forever’. – Isaiah 66: 18–19, 22

I also found a recording of it from the Atlanta symphony and Chorus directed by Robert Spano on Apple music. Just magnificent.

CIM Lesson 15 — My Thoughts are Images that I have Made.

!0:40 AM — So I listened to Dona Nobis Pacem twice or so and listened to O Man Beloved (the 5th movement) about 5 or 6 times. I wonder if I would have rediscovered this piece of music if not for cancer. I mean the poster has been hanging on my wall since Mom framed it and gave it to me , let’s say in 1975. I have looked at it all these years but I didn’t see it, didn’t hear it. I think this is what Gurdjieff was talking about. I think this is the essence of everything he taught. That we have to WAKE UP. I have sleeping walking my way through life and probably would still be doing that but for cancer. Cancer is forcing me to Wake Up and pay attention. My Thoughts are Images that I have Made.

Here’s the selfie of the day. Hair is going away. I’m not as hot as I once thought I was. I’m in fornt of the refrigerator and behind me is my wall of dead people. I’ll show you next. It’s where I stand when I cut vegtables and do any prep work in the kitchen that requires a cutting board and sharp knife. It’s kind of a private little corner. And I pause there now and again and have conversations with these dead

people. I was talking with Alice this morning. So much of what she gave me I wasn’t ready or able to hear when I was 24–25 years old. She talked to me about Prana. I am beginning just beginning to understand what that even means. But that’s what I mean when I say that cancer has ben a real blessing because it is forcing me to wake up. And I doubt that would have ever happened if not for this blessed

disease. Because I can be as trivial as I want here, here is my breakfast this morning. Those steel cut oats with banana, pecans, cinnamon, and a touch of maple syrup and a little milk. It was really good btw.

I’m taking an online class this weekend from The Prosperos. Not really taking the whole thing. I have some specific things I want to understand better. The Prosperos offers 2 basic tools for let’s call it spiritual growth. One is Translation which I have talked about. It uses Axioms and syllogistic logic to think through issues that our sense tell us are true. The second tool is RHS. It uses memories and emotions to do the same thing — to find out what is really true. Remember the CIM lesson today. Our thoughts many of them come from our memories and we build our own reality out of those memories that we think is the truth about how our lives are working. But they may or may not be accurate. RHS is a tool for us to explore those issues within our own mind using memory and emotion. Well I am doing a lot of remembering about my life these days and this class is being offered so I am going to sit in on it for a couple of the lessons. I have taken this class some 20 times before. From Thane and almost everyone else that ever taught it. It’s a hard one to really “get.” Our egos don’t like to be challenged and these tools — both of them Translation and RHS challenge the ego. They makes us consider whether what the ego tells us we are and what is true & what we really are, are the same. So this class starts in an hour. It’s being taught by a guy in Denver who is a long time friend and a guy in LA who is a new friend that I really don’t know very well. I honestly don’t understand how we missed each other for all these years. I floated in and out of the school all of my life — mostly out of it but somehow Rick and I just missed each other. Which is really a blessing now because we don’t have “constructs” (preconceived ideas) about who each other is. So that gives us the freedom to start with a clean slate. He is my “counselor” for that reason. Not that he is that smart or anything but he does know these tools and how to use them and can be a good coach for me as I pick them up again. So that’s what I’ll be doing this weekend. I won’t miss the Family Zoom call and I won’t miss some other visits. Pete is bringing over a meal. And there is another social zoom call with some folks from Collegium (Sue, John and some others). I might miss that one depending on the timing of the lessons I want to hear again. And I’ll keep listening to music and writing when I’m not in class.

Here’s another video that I want to hear again about the medical stuff. It’s 10 minutes long and I have 45 before I need to Zoom into the class.

Really good to hear that again. It’s 11:30 and this class starts in a half hour so I am going to sign off for now and quiet my mind for a little while. “My Thoughts are Images that I have Made.”

It’s 1:30 PM. Left the class after a few minutes of introdcution. They will text me when they do the Garden of Eden story. That’s another one of those archetypes I talked about the other day. Made a couple of calls — to Vesna and Justin, a guy I worked with at ATT who lives in Dallas. I actually don’t think Justin and I have ever met in person but we worked closely together and I consider him a good friend. When I met with the Palliative care people yesterday on zoom I remembered my time at ATT and well then remembered that Justin would want to know I had cancer. He is still in touch with Limin. The man who gave me a chance to prove myself and really saved my retirement by hiring at 62 year old without even an interview and virually no experience in project management. I never got tell him how grateful I was that he gave me a chance to prove myself. So Justin is going to tell him what’s up with me and tell him how grateful I am. Limin is kind of a hard ass — I mean he was tough boss and I was 2 layers below him so I didn’t really report to him. I got yelled at plenty by him but I also got praise and he gave me important responsibilities. He put me on the start up team for a big important project at the time. Here’s how I described it on my LinkedIn page. I never go to LinkedIn anymore but I wanted to look up the name of this project yesterday.

Lead Project Manager for the Network On Demand (Project Gamma) implementation. This project is a $500M+ development project following the Agile methodology. Network On Demand is a SDN product allowing customer ability to manage and control their switched Ethernet access services, managed Internet service, via a web based GUI. In addition the platform introduces a host of capabilities for virtual network functions (vNFs) on managed virtual customer edge (vCE) devices. It also introduces a universal CPE capable of implementing multiple vNFs in a single device. Responsibilities include managing program scope, schedule and costs as well as issue resolution and overall program success.

Thank you Limin. (Limin was also Gavin’s boss.) Justin was on Gamma and eventually Gavin too and many others. I was one of 2 LPM’s that launched the project reporting to a Program Manager who reported to Limin.

Weighed myself this morning. I’ve been doing that for some 3+ years every day and recording it on a wall calendar. I stopped in January so I’ll pick it up again. Thye asked me every time I go to Winship and I’ve just been assuming my weight was the same at the end of 2020–214. The best diet book I found that worked for me was “The Economist Diet.” It made me actually really start to pay attention to what I was putting in my mouth. So I’m 199.4 this morning. 200 was my goal that I didn’t really think I’d get to. I was 242 when I started paying attention. If I got to 190 that would be great. I don’t feel weak or anything. They just pinged me that class was starting again.

6:30 PM — So I went back, heard the Garden of Eden story which Richard told very well. I made some brief notes. Talk based on book The Ego and the Archetype by Edinger. I pulled my copy of Man and his Symbols by Jung and just started looking at the pictures later. It’s a coffee table book so it is oversized and full of pictures. I’ll keep it out and handy. Back to notes — may or may not make sense to you. — Split of Man and Woman polarizes our experience of separateness. We are separate from Spirit — re-examine. 2 voices — God and Devil — Devil scapegoat, blame for our woes. Garden of Eden is the birth of Man’s journey toward being consciuous. Devil draws attention to what we need to explore — * actualization of human consciouness. Love is forbidden. Dominion — mindfully caretaking. Then he told the story of Job. God and Satan having coffee and making a deal God says go ahead and fuck with this good man. Satan takes away everything — his wealth, his wife, his kids are killed.Misperception of universe talking to Job isn’t Job challenging God but challenging his understanding of God. Emotions reveal where we are both in synch and out of synch with truth/reality. Then I got tired and had to go lie down for a bit so I left. They’ll ping me for the Joseph story tomorrow and the wrap up. So I just got up. Didn’t really sleep but rested my eyes and got me feet warmer.

Pete brought over dinner (for days). Gonna have some next. And Sue dropped by for a quick visit. All that was really nice. Called Jack but didn’t talk to him. His weekends are always pretty busy with family obligations. Gonna go heat up dinner from Pete. and check out news if Tivo recorded any today and maybe football too. Later.

8 PM — So all the news I had recorded was GMA from this morning so I listened to 20 minutes of that while I heated up dinner and started taping the Rams game. Here’s dinner from Pete.

I’ve gotten nuts with snapping pics. Turkey with potatoes and gravy. Potatoes were scalloped with onions and stuff. Very flavorful, and the gravy was good. Turkey was a cheat but he warned me and it was still good. I added a half of an avacado with garlic salt, pepper, cumin and chipolte sprinkled on top. Good dinner. Watched the last 10 minutes of the Packers putting the Rams away. 2 Berkeley QB’s. CAL is as close as I have to having an alma mater to root for in college football. Santa Cruz WAS a satellite campus to Berkeley. My brother Dave would disagree. He actually WENT to Cal. But still, I pretend I have a college team to root for even though they never do very well. Santa Cruz has virtually no sports teams or Greek house or anything very traditional. So dinner was good. I’m taping the next game and it should be good. Ravens/Bills. I watch NFL games taped on Tivo and then I fast forward through commercials so I never watch commercials when I watch TV. An NFL commercial break is always 2 and half minutes. That 5 clicks to fast forward 30 seconds at a time. I’ve got it down to a science. So Rams are done. My team as a kid in LA with the fearsome foursome (Lamar Lundy, Rosey Grier, Merlin Olsen and Deacon Jones and Roman Gabriel as QB. Olsen and Grier had acting careers after football. OK I’m wasting time to let the game get ahead so I can skip the commercials. So I’m gonna hit the vape pen a couple of times and sit back and watch the game and take the night off. Might be back but might not.

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Just want to say that this blog is open and public. If it’s boring to some folks that’s OK — it’s just my daily life since it’s changed with a cancer diagnosis. So I’m putting it all out there little by little in chunks as they come to me. Some big things and some teeny tiny things. Lots of warts but also lots of beauty marks. If you know me (no matter how well you think you do) and you read this, you will be surprised by some things. But I don’t care who reads this or not. My life with cancer has become an open book and I want it that way. And this blog is helping me both to process the cancer and to appreciate the life I have had so far. I was talking to John next door today. He is a cancer survivor. Got his treatment at Winship. He was a theology professor at Emory long retired now but he shoots his age in golf — like 80 or something. And after cancer twice. I told him about how I was doing and what I was doing he said that doing what I am doing might someday help someone else going through the same thing. (He was a minister at Glenn Memorial for some of the time years ago.) And if that is true, then that’s reason enough to keep writing.

I was going through my photos looking for something specific and I saw this and thought of my sister Peg and her 2 boys who are gluten free and I’m sure there are many other of the nieces and nephews following all different kinds of diets. But this is a pretty good recipe for Gluten free pancakes made from plaintains. Ripe plantains work best. Blend the dry ingedients in a blender and add milk to this to make pancake batter consistency and fry em up like pancakes and enjoy a decadent weekend breakfast. Not for me today. Got no plaintains — it’s another oat meal day for me. Think I’ll put plantains on the shopping list. Got up at 6 AM. Early for me but couldn’t sleep more.

I enjoyed that opera last night greatly. I listened the the first act while I folded clothes and tidied up. Didn’t see any of it. I watched most of the second act — actually I watched until this very graceful and delicate 20–25 minute ballet came on in the middle of the opera. Then went to bed with it still on the TV just rested and listened to the end. Cupid was in it. I’ll get the story another time. The music was beautiful. Watching opera doesn’t have to be all engaging project. Just enjoy what you can and don’t worry about the rest. I never did get the story. That’s what I did with Armida last night with Rene Fleming. I enjoyed her voice, I enjoyed what I saw and heard but didn’t feel bad for missing any part of it. Casually treat yourself to an opera now and then. Text me if you want to know if the opera tonite or any nite is any good and I’ll tell you what I know. Free Met opera on TV every night is a pretty good thing. I sent them a donation to help cover the costs and keep the company alive during Covid with no performances and no revenue stream. We cannot lose more of the arts, We just can’t.

CIM Lesson 14 — God did not create a meaningless world. (Really excellent 12 minute lesson this morning.)

2 PM just heard this on Sirius XM radio in the house. I like the song.

4 PM — Another good day. Listening to jazz on Sirius XM. I did have eggs this morning. with avacado, green onion and salsa. And a croissant. Oh and my morning meds. God did not create a meaningless world. Had a zoom with palliative care at Winship. Palliative care is not just hospice care. They do things to help people deal with this disease. Good to know they are there if I need them. And I do know things could change at any time as I get further into chemo. I have no idea what’s in the future for me and well neither do you if you think about it.

So here’s the the “selfie of the day”. Hair is just coming out in chunks. I have been blessed my whole life with GREAT HAIR. You can see it in all the pictures. and the profile pic for this was taken after Thanksgiving so this losing my hair thing is a brand new thing for me. Hair is everywhere in the house. I am going to just let it all fall out on its own. Not gonna shave it or cut it. I’ll clean up the mess after it’s all gone. Have a load of laundry in the dryer. And I did finally get around to putting these Styrofoam covers on the outdoor faucets to keep the pipes from freezing. That is a problem around here if you don’t prepare for the cold weather. Probably everywhere else too but not in California. Pete liked the Shepherd’s Pie and Allen did too so the recipe is a keeper. He’s bring me a meal tomorrow that will last me a few days. John across the street asked if I wanted some of the take out they were getting tonight but I’ve got plenty right now. And David across the street picked up some post office boxes so I can start sending out CD’s to nieces and nephews and anybody else. James they’re coming — I promise. You get the Clapton box set for sure. More for you too Ronna. Anybody else? Now that they are all in the cloud I don’t need the disks anymore. Allison? Also kinda resigned from all my fantasy football leagues today. Told the guys that run the leagues that I didn’t want to spend the time on it anymore. All of them wrote back with messages of support. I might collaborate with Pete in a league or 2. That’s would be fun — not have to do all the damn research myself. We’ll see. Gotta check on the clothes. Laundry 2 days in a row and I still have more to do but not another full load so I won’t do more laundry tomorrow. brb.

Hair on the clean sheets. Hair might be with me for along while. Just not on my head. Well not for now anyway. The thing in the microwave that makes the table rotate stopped working. No more rotation. Talk about a teeny tiny thing. Makes me think of the people in this world that couldn’t make a cup of hot tea for themselves at all if they wanted to. They don’t have electricity. We are so lucky in this country. We don’t appreciate it enough. God did not create a meaningless world.

So I was gonna write about trophies today. I didn’t win many of them in my life. Got tee shirts for swimming or running in the Peachtree or even the Bay to Breakers. Stuff like that. Here is the trophy for winning that fantasy football league last year with my team SlugFest.

The bottom plate says “2019 Ned Henry “SlugFest.” I also got trophies every year in grammar school for winning the Religion award. And I’m sure there were little league trophies from Queen Anne park where I played little league. And then I’ve won a few bridge trophies over the years from tournaments and rank changes — stuff like that. Maybe some from intramural basketball or something like that. Oh and I did get Shambhala pins for all the levels I achieved there. I have several of those and I don’t even know what they are for anymore. I think Warrior Assembly was the highest one. I even staffed that event a couple of times. But not many awards and certainly none I treasure more than this one…..

WAIT — this just in — the email just came from the MET. Here is the lineup for next week.

Monday, January 18
Bizet’s Carmen

Tuesday, January 19
Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor

Wednesday, January 20
Bellini’s Norma

Thursday, January 21
Verdi’s La Traviata

Friday, January 22
Puccini’s Tosca

Saturday, January 23
Massenet’s Manon

Sunday, January 24
Wagner’s Die Walküre

This is as good as it gets. Pick a night and watch an opera on demand. I will watch Lucia and Traviata (even though I have already seen these productions earlier this season) And Tosca (but that’s chemo day so I migth not be up for it. I hope it’s the more up to date one not the Pavoratti one. He’s a great singer but the older productions aren’t as good.) And probably Carmen again and definitely Die Walkure. The opening of ACT 2 in Die Walkerie is INCREDIBLE if this is the same production. I watched it over and over when I saw it earlier. This my friends is an ALL STAR opera line up next week. And All for free. Take a couple hours off and treat yourself.On DemandFrom old-school legends to today’s great stars, experience more than 700 full-length Met performances with our online…www.metopera.org

So back to trophies. Sorry for the interuption but that email just came and I had to share it so you could plan.

This is the trophy I treasure the most. You see I AM CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS!!! It all started with my nephew JV. And now even Allison addressed me on her card yesterday as “Uncle Ned/Captain Underpants” JV really, I mean REALLY got into the Captain Underpants books. I mean really really really. To this day I have no idea how he turned out to be so well adjusted. He is a normal kind

caring human being but I don’t know how he did it. He was OBSESSED with Captain Underpants. He sent all the books to me and he made some figurines out of clay and cloth. I actually don’t know how long I can I talk about this but JV was really into Captain Underpants and we would talk about it on the phone and all kinds of things. You can see the

cloth figurine in the picture with all the books. There was a clay one too but the plunger broke and now I can’t find it in this mess of a house. The broken figurine is around here someplace. I mean this kid was nuts for Captain Underpants.

So it was parent’s 45th wedding anniversay I think. And the party was on the Oregon coast at Seal Rock just north of Waldport. My sister Ronna has lived there since like forever. She’s been there since I don’t know 1980 at least and still there. I haven’t spoken much about Ronna but I will. She has a big family of her own — 9 kids and now they have kids and well Ronna is just the Earth Mother of the family. Very devout Catholic and keeps me supplied in cannibas. She sends me whatever I want from Oregon so I always have some on hand these days for which I am very glad especially after chemo. It is nowhere close to being legalized in Georgia. It’s not even legal for medical here. Ronna is the kindest sweetest person on God’s green earth. She does home hospice on the Oregon coast so she helps old people to live comfortably while they are dying. It takes a special person to do that work and it doesn’t pay very much. We’ll talk more about Ronna later but for now we have this big BIG party planned for Mom and Dad’s #45. Peg made up tee shirts for all of us. Let me see if I have a pic.

I haven’t found the pics from the 45th yet but I did come across this gem. That’s the twins on the right and Ronna on the left with mom in the middle. They were collecting those glass balls on the beach on the Oregon coast. I’ll keep digging for the pics from the 45th and then I’ll finish Captain Underpants. Gonna break for dinner. It’s a little after 6 PM. God did not create a meaningless world.

9 PM — This is all of us at M & D’s 45th on the Oregon coast. The tee shirts Peg had done for everybody was the photo of Mom and Dad on their wedding day leaving the reception and looking out the back window of the car as they began their new life together. They were within one year of their 70th anniversary when Mom died and dad died a few months later.

Jan has more pictures of this event and we took a lot of them. This might be done by a professional. I think it was. We had a huge softball game I brought Braves hats for everyone on MY team.

So there is this BIG house that is up the hill from the beach in Seal Rock. We always just called it the Big House. It is owned by (and still is I think) an international lawyer and his wife who hired Ronna since high school to be a babysitter and caregiver. They took her on International trips like to Lebanon where he went a lot on business. They live in Bend now. Well we could use the Big house whenever we wanted so we used it for this event. It’s big, lots of bedrooms and a couple of stories, great porch looking out over the Pacific. I’m sure they rent it out now on Air B & B or something for a pretty penny. So one morning all the grandkids

were downstairs playing and I walk down the stair in my tighty whiteys and a cape yelling, I AM CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS!!! There are better pictures than these but you get the idea. The boys are absolutely ecstatic, giddy with delight. They couldn’t believe I was THAT crazy. The girls all go running into the kitchen rolling their eyes because they think this is just so gross. It was hilarious. And ever since then, I have been known as Uncle Ned Captain Underpants. We had a great family reunion that weekend in Oregon. I HAVE had a great life. And I love these kids so much — all of them. And now they are all young adults and they are all as close as they can possibly be. We

had another family reunion maybe a 2 summers ago in Indiana on Lake Michigan with the WHOLE family. Not just the Henry’s but all of my grandparents decendants. I don’t have any good pictures of that reunion. This is Mike and Jim Leahy and Jack Jan and Terri and me. Anyway we rented an Air B & B and we had Jack’s beach house. The nieces and nephews all stayed together in the Air B & B and the brothers and sisters stayed at Jack’ house. Well I stayed in the house with my nieces and nephews. Such a great weekend hanging out with 20 somethings. And meeting some relatives for the first time and others I hadn’t seen since I was a little kid. I am a very lucky man. This is fun to just reflect on memories of really how fortunate I am.

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