I have Michelle to thank for this book discovery. I’m giving it five stars on a scale of five. It’s called Bird by Bird, and the author is Anne Lamott. Anne is a writer, and the book is ostensibly about writing. I find it to be a book about noticing what is real and putting [...]
Archive for December, 2007
An exciting book discovery
Posted in Art, Books, Blogs & Films, Inspiration, tagged Anne Lamott, self-discovery, truth, writing on December 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ahimsa–doing no harm at Christmas
Posted in Inspiration, tagged , non-violence, yamas, Yoga on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
One of the 10 behaviorial precepts of yoga is non-violence. Violence is one of the yamas, or the five things the practicing yogi abstains from doing.
There is an onion to be peeled away in this matter of non-violence. When we work with it we begin to see more and more subtle forms of violence. I think about it [...]
Tai’s Christmas message from Central America
Posted in Inspiration, tagged Christmas, Costa Rica, Panama, Tai, travel on December 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By Tai Blue, via e-mail from Central America
It´s interesting to see Christmas celebrated here. It´s so hot and rainy and the environment doesn’t support the feel for Christmas, but then neither does the arid desert climate of Tucson, Arizona. I always forget that Christmas is coming until I see the Christmas lights decorating the houses and [...]
Watch ZUZI dance on a long winter night!
Posted in Art, tagged dance, Tucson, ZUZI on December 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I saw a dance performance at ZUZI a couple of years ago that was based on Dr. Seuss stories. It was very charming and inventive. This year they are performing dances based on lullabies to celebrate the winter solstice–the longest night of the year–on December 20 through 22. Based on my first experience I have [...]
Why I quit MySpace
Posted in Science, tagged identify theft, MySpace on December 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I erased my MySpace profile yesterday after having it online for about 14 months. I removed it because somebody hacked into my list of friends and sent them all a video making it appear that I sent it. I don’t know what was in the video, but the “cover” photo showed a young lady wearing [...]
Two views on cows
Posted in In the News, tagged Africa, cows., food, Sudan on December 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Washington Post published a story today that captures the two extremes on the spectrum of attitudes toward cows. In Southern Sudan cows are considered part of one’s estate. Where we have a house with running water, a car, and an investment in a mutual fund or two, the Sudanese have cows.
“If you are a [...]
Let an old man say it for you
Posted in Art, In the News, tagged Billy Joel, music, protest, war on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Tucson Citizen reports that singer Billy Joel has released an anti-war song. The singing star is 58 years old, so he invited 21-year-old Cass Dillon to sing it. He said the song should come through a young voice.
I wrote a blog long ago about the eerie silence among musicians about the Iraq and Afghanistan [...]
What’s wrong with our big institutions?
Posted in In the News, tagged Catholic, Navy, sex crime on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Washington Post reported recently on a Catholic Navy chaplain who used his rank of lieutenant commander to intimidate sailors into having sex with him. He is HIV positive, and he lies about it to sex partners. At his trial he agreed to provide names of his sexual partners, or at least, “all encounters I [...]
Like a cancer patient and a Marlboro
Posted in In the News, Science, tagged beef, Brazil, fastfood, global warming on December 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Like a lung cancer patient lighting up another Marlboro, we like to find ways to defeat our best interests in favor of indulging old habits.Here we have global warming coming at us like a freight train, and all we can think of is that we don’t want gasoline prices to increase to the point that [...]
