Easy Lies, Heavy Lives

Easy lies travel fast. Quiet truth doesn’t. This piece looks at why people follow noise and ignore the peace right in front of them.

It’s unbelievably easy to create fake news now. One quick tap and a lie travels faster than truth ever could. Many content creators aren’t chasing honesty anymore—they’re chasing monetization. The faker the post, the faster the reactions, shares, and comments. And that means income. The only real thing in all of it is their love for easy money.

And people today are treated as naturally gullible. Scroll, believe, share—repeat. No pause, no checking, no thinking.

But when the post is spiritual? When it’s something genuinely good? People see it as “nothing new.” Share a Bible passage and they say, “I already know that. Any twist? Anything different?” And if there’s none, they scroll away without a second look.

Yet bring out a page filled with dark, unsettling art—edgy, loud, almost satanic—and they follow instantly. It feels different. It feels louder than the world they’re trying to escape. But they don’t realize—it only adds more noise to their life.

Here’s the strange part: when we pray in the dark, or simply close our eyes, there’s peace. But when we do bad things, our life becomes dark—and we forget it’s the same darkness. The same blackness that frightens us is also the blackness of calm when our eyes are closed.

Same color. Different meaning.

So when those heavy moments come—pray.

Sometimes the darkness isn’t a threat—it’s a quiet doorway back to clarity, if we let it be.

And maybe that’s the real point: if content creators stopped feeding people with manufactured lies—and if people learned to pause, pray, and think before reacting—fake news wouldn’t spread this fast in the first place.

If noise begins with one bright lie, peace can also begin with a Nonpareil Drop of RGB.

Nonpareil Drop of RGB • Darem Placer
Piano Painting includes Nonpareil Drop of RGB. Soon on Bandcamp.

⌨ ᴛʸᵖⁱⁿᵍ ᴏᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ʙˡᵘᵉ ᵈᵃʳᵉᵐ ᵐᵘˢⁱᶜ ᵇˡᵒᵍ

Saturdays with Mama Mary

Two gentle weekends invite us to find Mary not in miracles, but in the quiet spaces of our ordinary lives.

October 11 & 25, 2025

October brings two quiet Saturdays for Mary—days for us to slow down, breathe, and remember Her calm faith that never faded.

Every Saturday, the Church quietly honors the Blessed Virgin Mary. This long-loved custom is called the Saturday Memorial of Our Lady, a gentle tradition that began centuries ago. It recalls Holy Saturday—the day between the Cross and the Resurrection—when the whole world waited in silence, and only Mary kept her faith alive.

For October 2025, these memorials fall on October 11 and October 25—two peaceful Saturdays for us to pause, pray, and bring a bit of Mary’s quiet strength into our daily lives. (Some Saturdays are skipped when a saint’s celebration comes first.)

🌹 Simple Things We Can Do

  • Let’s pray the Rosary, even while having coffee.

There’s no rule saying we must sit perfectly still or be in a chapel. The Rosary is a meditation, not a performance. We can pray it while walking, waiting for sunrise, or yes—while sipping our morning coffee. What matters isn’t our hands or our surroundings, but the direction of our hearts. Doing something simple and peaceful while praying can actually help our minds stay steady and sincere.

  • Let’s clean our space.

A tidy table or room can mirror an ordered soul. Mary’s life was simple and ready for God—keeping things clean and calm is one quiet way to honor that.

  • Let’s do one hidden kindness.

We can help someone today without them knowing it was us. Small unseen acts shine brightest in Heaven.

  • Let’s end our Saturday with one “Hail Mary.”

Even one prayer, said slowly before sleeping, can wrap up our day with grace.

Because in the end, Mary doesn’t count our posture or our pace—She listens to our heartbeats.

⌨ ᴛʸᵖⁱⁿᵍ ᴏᵘᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ʙˡᵘᵉ ᵈᵃʳᵉᵐ ᵐᵘˢⁱᶜ ᵇˡᵒᵍ