This is a time for change, for me. Some major parts of my life are being let go (bye hair! :-), to make room for some new things. I'm not entirely sure what yet, but as nature abhors a vacuum (EVIL, I say!) the spaces that are being opened up will naturally fill up with new and interesting and, presumably, healthier things (the hair will probably ( Read more... )

Everyone deserves, needs in fact, outlets for their expressions, of all kinds (eg., solids, liquids, gases, and energy), our job is to make sure that we offer outlets that work well enough for the individuals around us as well as for us, so that expressions are most useful, and least wasteful ( Read more... )

But when we are frustrated, we often define the problem as something else entirely, especially when others encourage us and agree with us about our complaints about external stuff that is mostly out of our control (other people's behavior and personalities and abilities ( Read more... )

...would be to be spend at least a couple of months with my honey, on a productive vegan farm, near the beach and forest, far, far away from the interference of any other human beings, so that we can focus on taking excellent care of us, and be surrounded by healthy, mostly balanced, individuals and groups (of non-humans). It would sort of be like ( Read more... )

People who say they don't believe in God are like the blind men who experience the elephant saying they don't believe in Haathee ( Read more... )

Can you figure out what real life process I'm describing here ( Read more... )

Or at least working with the goal of offering unconditional support:

Re-evaluation counseling

And on that site, I found this: Men and Rage, which is an article by one of my downstairs housemates, whose whole family is very cool and involved with this process. There is more to it than just the counseling, and there might be some hint of religion ( Read more... )

As in he writes books for people like me to read, and as in he writes books so that I don't have to. :-)

From an interview with Seth in The Art of Non-Conformity blog, talking about his latest book, Lynchpin:

What I am writing about is the ability of each of us, without authority or permission, to do work that matters, to have an impact and to ( Read more... )

Sea slug eats algae and becomes able to eat sunlight...

U.S. researchers have found that the sea slug Elysia chlorotica can photosynthesize, using energy from light to convert carbon dioxide into sugars ( Read more... )

There are three basic options for what information does. And thus, if we are in control of some information, we have three options for what we can do with our information ( Read more... )