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What a long, strange trip it has been.
2002, five years ago, I was in the midst of reinventing myself, having abruptly resigned as the Chairman of the Board of a new non-profit organization after being attacked and undercut by a fellow board member. I was also enduring my last months in La Leche [...]

Today is my last day as a thirty-something. My party was Saturday night. It was a great party! Lots of good food, chocolate cake, family and friends. I made a mix CD set, 56 songs on three disks, which lasted until the band showed up. I hope everyone had a [...]

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day!
According to this article about Demi Moore spent £225,000 (nearly half a million US dollars) on a “head-to-toe surgical makeover” in an attempt to revive her career as an actress. I looked at the laundry list that made up this makeover and was puzzled by £5,000 spent [...]

5.
It is time for the invocation:
Kali, be with us.Violence, destruction, receive our homage.Help us to bring darkness into the light,To lift out the pain, the anger,Where it can be seen for what it is—The balance-wheel for our vulnerable, aching love.Put the wild hunger where it belongs,Within the act of creation,Crude power that forges a balanceBetween [...]

Taken with my iPhone, click to enlarge. My seats are at center ice, five rows behind the home bench. Not bad.

Training camp opened on Friday. The first preseason game is this afternoon. I’m looking forward to seeing the new line combination of Vyborny-Zherdev-Nash.

The concert was fantastic! Damien is not afraid to experiment with new ways to play his own music, stringing together songs in such a seamless way that you can’t imagine they are two separate tracks. His live performances rarely sound like they do on his albums.
He really is all emotion with [...]

From a preview of Damien Rice’s current tour in North America:
Some singers seem to bring their voices from a place deeper than the throat and the lungs. They seem to be singing from the unconscious, a place primordial and pure.
Damien Rice has that mystic quality. On his two albums, the Irish singer snakes his voice [...]

Manhattan, 1988

Reading about this study from the September 2007 Nature Neuroscience made me think of this passage from Dancing in the Flames, published in 1996:
Within the center of every living thing dwells the soul of the world, the anima mundi.
Moving into the “third sacred dream” requires us to live from this center, the place of paradox, [...]

A funny thing happened on my way to indifference. While I was busy wondering how I’d achieve it I realized I’d already gone right past it!
I tend to be the type of person who carries other people’s anger. Especially if the friend or family member isn’t getting mad about a situation themselves, I am [...]

I’m glad I decided to re-read Dancing in the Flames by Marion Woodman. I found some sections that gave me quite a bit to think about and are leading me in directions I discovered once but then forgot about, like the connection between emotions and the brain via neurotransmitters as illuminated by researchers like [...]

Disillusionment is a bitter pill to swallow.

I’m reading a new book, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War by Joe Bageant. It’s quite good and I plan to suggest it for the progressive reading group. It deals with class war — a side of politics that nobody ever dares discuss, like the pink elephant sitting in the [...]

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