the language of words
not every emptiness is meant to be filled (i hope i got that right, Eve LadyApples) last night i stood shivering with a small group on the edges of the san francisco bay. first, we looked west from the...
View Articlea long QOTD: this awakened life
[ed: line breaks added. each of these paragraphs is a QOTD in itself. read slowly and savor.] “A traveller who had seen many lands and peoples and several of the earth’s continents was asked what...
View Articlechanges are afoot
ooops….i missed blogging yesterday, and i know i should not make excuses, as the whole point of National Blog Posting Month is to post every day without excuses. but i was so busy yesterday! first a...
View Articlesecularism and its discontents: loss of enchantment?
re: this piece in the New Yorker, i have had this post in draft since august as i meant to write a lot more about this topic, about the connection or lack thereof between spirituality and happiness,...
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#OWS, the police, and walking the walk (post #8)
1. i urge you to watch this video of the retired Philadelphia policeman who was arrested at #OWS, talking about the problems he sees with how the police are interacting with this movement. he is super...
View Articleword of the day: pleonexia
Pleonexia, sometimes called pleonexy, originates from the Greek language πλεονεξια and is a philosophical concept employed both in the New Testament and in writings by Plato and Aristotle. It roughly...
View Articlethanksgiving QOTD
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart
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with a little
we had 2 thanksgiving dinners with friends and their families, we did see the muppets movie friday night (fun!), a couple few nice walks, several more good meals with friends, good weather and 14.2...
View ArticleQOTD: i can’t get no
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. –George Bernard Shaw
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