I’m being told, by individual mouths as well as much of my culture, that I should be upset and/or ashamed that my body is, at age 38, no longer “perfect”.

Well, it wasn’t perfect before. Or rather, if I looked at my 20-year-old body now I might say, “Perfect!”, but I never felt nor was allowed to feel like it was perfect then; and in strict ( Read more... )

(Brought to you courtesy of Day 6 of the Dymaxion adaptation… :))

OK folks, time to open up: What are you reading right now? Should I read any of them??

Because this is my currently-reading list, so clearly I need more:


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I've learned three really cool new phrases lately, in my studies of the nature of void!

(shut up, we've all got hobbies)

1.  Spacetime foam:  The term for what space and time look like on a quantum (teeeeeeeeny) level, such as in the first moments after the big bang, when they (space and time) blur together in a way that scientists ( Read more... )

Today I randomly figured out that using capitalized passive verbs without subjects* is an elegant and simple way to write a phrase like "our God-given lives" in such a way that it fits with my spiritual understanding (I'm not a theist, if you weren't aware).

Thus:  We practice gratitude daily for our Given lives.

…and that's how ( Read more... )

Here's a lovely poem that I had never heard before today:

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through -

And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum -
Kept beating - beating - till I thought
My mind was going numb -

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Both the single best TED talk I've ever seen, and one of the best *things* I've ever seen, period.

I want to live in a world where everyone has watched this.



Originally published at counterclockwise. You can comment here or there.

Defeat, my Defeat, my solitude and my aloofness;
You are dearer to me than a thousand triumphs,
And sweeter to my heart than all worldglory.

Defeat, my Defeat, my self-knowledge and my defiance,
Through you I know that I am yet young and swift of foot
And not to be trapped by withering laurels.
And in you I have found aloneness
And the joy of being ( Read more... )

These layer-lapse videos are pretty impressive!  I'm so glad that Boston got one early, because…



…HOLY CRAP I live in a beautiful place now!  ::so proud::

Now, go find something beautiful in your own town to admire - and leave me a link to it if you can!

Originally published at *Transcendental *Logic. You can comment here or there.

I feel like September's adaptation is shaping up to become a biiiiiig fight.  And maybe not one I can win!  Look at these "gotchas" that might interfere with my own adaptation:

• unexpectedly (I just found out), I'm moving to a new apartment on or about September 1st
• I have an irritatingly slow-to-heal sports injury I've been dealing with for ( Read more... )

Hey all!  A friend of mine wrote this for me, and I thought it was all the best kinds of educational and beautiful, and so I asked him if I could share it with you all.  Thank you, Aatish!

THE FRUIT POLITIC

If there's one thing, and I think there might be just exactly one thing, that Indians love more than cricket, it's mangoes. High mango ( Read more... )