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Idiom of Stuff
Seeing the hand Nature dealt Japan this past week made me recall the philosophical change in how I treated stuff a number of years ago.
The adage "if you haven't used it in 6mo throw it out" is good as a quip, but not as an overreaching philosophy on stuff and existence as a whole. Too often we treat people the same way, relegating them to the ( Read more... ) -
Veteran's Day
I take the time today (in addition to other days, but today gives room for more thought) to thank the Veterans of the US Armed Forces ( Read more... ) -
Regression to Oligarchy
"And when they have emptied and swept clean the soul of him who is now in their power and who is being initiated by them in great mysteries, the next thing is to bring back to their house insolence and anarchy and waste and impudence in bright array, having garlands on their heads, and a great company with them, hymning their praises and calling ( Read more... ) -
A being is cast
Tonight I witnessed one of the best Buddhists I've even known pass her energy back into the universe ( Read more... ) -
Information Age
I had determined some time in the last couple of years that we're no longer "entering the Information Age" as we were in the 90 and early 00s, but are fully in that Age and now moving into the Age of Understanding (where we figure out, as both a society and as an individual, what and how we absorb all that information).
The thing that drove ( Read more... ) -
An evening at the Bastille
So today Cady and I were resting from our trek to the Eiffel Tower and the Trocadero, and had listened to the march go down Blvd Ste-Germain out our hotel window for a couple of hours. We decided after it was quiet to go grab a crepe and follow the huge trail of paper and trash left in the wake to see the match ( Read more... ) -
producer note to self
Rubert Hine not good for Rush (if it is synthpop, he's good, otherwise, um, no).
Peter Collins good for everything that I know of that he's done and I've heard, especially Rush and Queensryche.
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