January 2012
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HAPPY NEW YEAR
Greetings from Atlanta Georgia.
Blessings for a healthy intriguing prosperous new year!
Thanks to all my fellow tumblrs out there for their generous sharing of beauty, wisdom, hope, laughter, inspiration, image, insomnia and everything else that brings us here to this meeting place in the wee hours of the night.
“This is the essence of Buddhist “Metta” Loving...
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December 2011
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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...
– Neil Gaiman
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End of the Year Poems, 4
A few weeks ago I moved into a new apartment and this entailed packing the poetry. And, naturally, that entailed sitting down and browsing through books I hadn’t opened in a while.
And I came across “Song: Now That She Is Here” by Hayden Carruth, an American poet who died in 2008. It caught my attention, both for its lyricism and its honesty about...
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“In this world, time has three dimensions, like space. Just as an object may...
– Alan Lightman, American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Einstein’s Dreams, London, Vintage, 2004. (via amiquote)
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End of the Year Poems, 1
I’d like to conclude 2011 with a selection of poems that feel especially resonant with the year’s various pivots. I only recently came across the following poem by Su Tung-P’o (I probably read it years ago but only “got” it just a few weeks ago) and appreciated its layers of meanig.
The clear wind - what is it?
Something to be loved,...
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“Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional...
– Lynn Margulis, American biologist and University Professor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1938-2011), What Is Life?, University of California Press, 2000. (via amiquote)
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Jon Stewart Crushes Fox News In The 2011 Ratings →
The reason why Fox News feels so threatened by Jon Stewart is because his program is more popular than anything not named Bill O’Reilly on the network. Not only is Stewart popular, but he is popular with the coveted young demographics that Fox News struggles with. The average Fox News viewer is 65 years old. For years, the Fox News model of success has been powered by viewers literally aging in...
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How can a heart be illumined when the forms of created things are imprinted in...
– Ibn Ata’illah al-Sakandari (via theconsciousmuslim)
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She’s too far away this biting cold New Year’s Eve. Twenty tolls into the temple bell’s midnight song, I’ll no doubt be fast asleep.
—Michael Boiano
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When the teacher says "Partner up!" and you look... →
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Keep fresh before me
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The moments of my high resolve
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Despite the dullness and barrenness of the days that pass, if I search with due diligence, I can always find a deposit left by some former radiance. But I had forgotten. At the time it was full-orbed, glorious and resplendent. I was sure that I would never forget. In the moment of its fullness, I was sure that it would illumine my...