So much goes on in my life, I've noticed, yet I don't feel an urge to chronicle it in my journal like I did when I was an undergraduate. I'm less lonely, I think, or maybe I'm less prone to self-reflections. I'm more focused on the immediate, and I'm trying to make a life for myself that is stable, meaningful, and impacting ( Read more... )

My father once told me-- and he never much tells me much of anything, but this one time-- he told me that people are only your friends for as long as they find a use for you. It was a sad assessment, but given how he approaches his life, I'm not surprised he would make that claim. And perhaps, if you strip away everything in a human's relationship ( Read more... )

The city of Asheville, North Carolina has way too many head shops. Drappy dresses, bad art, incense, and kitchen magnets were in most every front of its downtown stores. Not to mention there were rows and rows of cabinets full of glass blown pipes. I tugged Aaron into Skinny Beats Drum Shop, which sold African drums (the Djembe, the Congo, and ( Read more... )

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Muscle connects to the bone and bone to the ire and the marrow ( Read more... )

This is not a cry you can hear at night
This is not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah- leonard cohen ( Read more... )

But wait, up there -- a star!
It's shines on you and I tonight
On the hill, in the dark,
So we know that we're not alone...- Cue Conversation, Skybox ( Read more... )

This reads a bit like something from a self-help book, but it's actually from the Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff, a book that ties Winnie the Pooh to Taoist philosophy....It's a really easy read with a lot of great insights from Pooh Bear. Heh, I first ran into it in the Smoky Mountains while hanging out with a hippie boy for a night. We smoked some ( Read more... )

"...and yes I have all of the usual objections to consumerism
to the commercialization of an ancient religion
to the Westernization to a dead Palestinian
press-ganged into selling playstations and beer
But I still really like it...."

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Heh, kind of a fun song ( Read more... )

I recently read this quick Bernard Shaw book called "A Black Girl's Search for God," and I found it online..... You should totally check it out.

"I have seen worse kings" said the black girl; "so you need not blush. Well, let you be King Solomon and let me be Queen of Sheba, same as in the bible. I come to you and say that I love you. That means ( Read more... )

Stereotypes persist because they are useful, not because they are accurate. They have political power and always mask some self-interest. They are used by those in power to justify some action, some exploitation, toward those who have little power..... Stereotypes allow us to blame the victim.

[Dr. Ronald Eller]