It’s Frosty the Snowman around here – freezing and hailing and my toes are bitter cold despite the fact that I have socks and shoes on, which is abnormal for me most of the time I am working. I just saw an update about the massive storm and this is what caught my eye: “A storm that produces a swath of 20-inch snow is really something we’d see once every 50 years — maybe,” Spriggs…
Years ago, Susan Sontag was speaking in San Francisco and I went to hear her and she said she had just gotten back from Bosnia and that if you weren’t paying attention to what was happening there then you were part of the problem. I felt guilty but also as if I had been caught in the headlights. I admit to being ordinary only because I had to laugh when I was reading another friend’s…
There is a NYT article this morning saying that a determination has been made in the BP Oil Spill that says the area will recover faster than people had anticipated – by the end of 2012 – and therefore compensation for the damages will be mitigated by this good news. I read this almost in disbelief that anyone could in their right mind know when and to what degree the damages from this spill would…
I’m still working through the compassion meditation theme which finished this month and last night, it was tough because in exploring who you are and who people near you really are, it is hard not to be compassionate if you are able to envision a person as a young child drawn into a circle of loving warmth. The nutty thing about the meditation last night was that in creating this circle of people who love…
When I visited the I Ching master in Shanghai many years ago he said that I would most align with a person whose zodiac was the Horse, so it was no surprise to find out that T’s Chinese sign is the Horse. Today I was wishing Happy New Year to some colleagues and noticed it is the year of the Rabbit, which is what my ex was and so I looked at the traits listed…
I used to have a recording of myself as a toddler and I was singing this song, “I’m moo moo the cow, I eat lots of hay, babeeshuninyuhairstyleface” – that word was a word I said as a kid constantly because it was a derivative of what my father would say when any of us sneezed, which was “vivir cien años” and who knows where hairstyle face got glommed on. So I love that Tin…
I’m following the upheaval in Egypt with interest as it all goes back to Clay Shirky’s premise that technology is changing more than you would have thought – the global community is truly here despite aspirations to stay local, to retain identity, to not get swept away with the flotsam – as soon as everybody controls access to information, no one is in charge and then what? Chaos. Is chaos a good thing? Most likely…