short thought and insight. i know it as much deeper than i can spare the time to look in this moment.

this is a favorite piece from the camerado series by walt whitman.

The Transformation of Speech [An excerpt from The Dharma , by Kalu Rinpoche, from a chapter on The Four Dharmas of Gampopa. ]

the echoes of last week’s conversations continue. not fighting them. just letting them bounce as they will, watching and listening how they create other things, laughing at that process, seeing it clearly. no wonder i was always so distracted and anxious.

woke up from an odd dream that i’m not going to document (i think). and with my mind full of things from recent discussions and the usual squirmies i’ve been dealing with from 2006.

my root lama, chanting om mani padme hum. http://www.youtube.com/v/633eH4yajHE

hah. it has taken 41 years for me to discover something. what that something is doesn’t much matter but for how it lends to this result.

i should have known better than to think she would give up so easily.

more and more of late, i’m being presented with the lesson that there is no discussion to be had where any participant cares more for their own ‘rightness’ than to understand the thoughts of others in relation to them.

Below are Time’s most significant SF novels between 1953-2006. The meme part of this works like so: Bold the ones you have read, strike through the ones you read and hated, italicize those you started but never finished, and put a star (*) next to the ones you love.