In the garden of gentle sanity - may you be bombarded
by coconuts of wakefulness.

~Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

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Just a quick post this a.m. before I get to work ( Read more... )

I am now on a Gladwell kick. Why not? He covers fascinating topics and offers well-researched insight into widely-held beliefs that most of us have made vast assumptions about. What can I say? I like they guy's perspective ( Read more... )

I was perusing the clearance sale at my local Borders store when I came across two books by Vermont authors... "WHAT?! Egads, no!" I HAD to save them from such misery in an unknown land... so I bought them and saved them from the ignorant Chicagoans. Too bad I already had a copy of one book, and had bought the other book for my mother once upon a ( Read more... )

Boss: (holding up a plastic file folder with button clasp) "See if you can fine me some more of these ( Read more... )

Outliers ( Read more... )

.. on my 33rd birthday... er, the 4th anniversary of my 29th birthday, rather ( Read more... )

... to call myself human ( Read more... )

My 3rd Glassblowing class:


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I went to my second glass blowing class last week.
My first vase:


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