someone, i forget who, once said that the problem with humans is that they are never content. they also said that all the trials and sufferings of humanity rise from their inability to sit still. it amused me at the time i read it, mostly because of its profound simplicity. most times, we laud these things in humans. we call them ‘courage’ and ‘curiosity’, we name them intrepid persistence and goodness knows how many other adjectives. but, at the end of the day, humans usually don’t know when they have enough or when they should be content. i am, most […]

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perspective rules regardless all never accepting evidence that might change mind that renders more less than ill innocent

if you catch that song reference, i’m impressed. my roomie has a friend of his over to watch the most ridiculous set of adult (?) cartoons imaginable. i sat in for two episodes before giving it up. i don’t find it funny and it wouldn’t be helpful for me to say so. heh. not much else happening. turns out the roomie is unhappy at work and has a passel of self-inflicted drama in relation to it all. so, after trying to avoid being the landfill to hear about it all, i’ve given up and sat down and had a single […]

’nuff said.

sometimes, the way this world operates just makes me want to cry. i just got a call from my daughter. her father is in the hospital. he was attacked in his home. he has a pet dog. he also has a girlfriend who lives in pennsylvannia. so he often takes pictures of things that make him smile and send them to her so she can smile, too. the dog was outside playing with some of the neighborhood kids. it made him smile. he took a picture to send to his girlfriend. when he took the dog inside, he told the […]

this book is on my ‘soon to be read’ list. this, the introduction, is just about the best look at what it really means to be buddhist that i’ve ever encountered. [begin paste] Featured excerpt from What Makes You Not a Buddhist, by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Introduction Once, I was seated on a plane in the middle seat of the middle row on a trans-Atlantic flight, and the sympathetic man sitting next to me made an attempt to be friendly. Seeing my shaved head and maroon skirt, he gathered that I was a Buddhist. When the meal was served, the […]

as in past tense. as in done. and man, just in time. i’m whimpering. video and more. click through to read and view.

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