Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous! Other people are excited, as though they were at a parade. I alone don't care, I alone am expressionless, like an infant before it can smile. Other people have what they need;…
Valentine's Day slips by pretty easily (and cheaply?) when you're flyin' solo. Imagine how it could be... "Somewhere in Time" One of the most romantic movies of all time. Who would not want to experience it this way? "The man of my dreams is almost faded, now. The one I have created in my mind. The sort of man, each woman dreams of…
I just finished cleaning up my blog, and what a relief. I deleted all the videos that were no longer working because of legal issues with youtube. I deleted the posts that I thought were vitriolic, negative and insensitive. It feels really refreshing to have done that. Of course, this blog is now even more boring than it used to be (never thought I…
Wow, one look at the MSN front page shows it is most definitely NOT a slow news day. Not sure which is bigger: Tornado kills 8 20 dead as Taliban storms ministry Peanut plant owner refuses to testify Israel in limbo after election Merril Lynch execs gets $3.2 BILIION in bonuses days before buy-out 7.0 Earthquake hits Indonesia Favre retires (again)! It's easy…
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. (tao te ching/verse 9/stephen mitchell translation)
BILLIONS GO POOF AS MONEY-MANAGERS GO BAD Where do we go from here? The very fabric of capitalism is coming unglued as the dominos continue to fall. Sadly, these financial-gurus-gone-bad have to be just the tip of the iceberg. The SEC was most definitely asleep at the switch, or worse, looking the other way for their bred'ren. Lives have been destroyed by these fakes, and frankly…
Change has come and it can be clearly seen at http://www.whitehouse.gov/
...the home office, we'll be commenting on the inauguration as it happens. (all times eastern) 1039- celebrities and dignitaries continue to file in. Dustin Hoffman, Muhammad Ali, Magic Johnson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the entire House of Representatives. The scope of this is almost indescribeable- like wrapping your brain around the Grand Canyon upon first sight of it. Hundreds of thousands of people gathering.... arguably…
Here's the list until today...... (click on it) Today #44 breaks through, rewrites the rules, joins the club, redfines what it means to be an American. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,…
Here on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and on the eve of the inauguration, I see this week as a mark that future generations might look back to and describe as the start of a profound shift in human consciousness. I suppose I could be considered a philisophical taoist, and in President Obama I see the possibility of the embodiment of verse 17...in part... The great leader…