Good God what a week. The triple is over for now…Annie Lennox, followed by Zap Mama, and rounding out the weeks last night, Issa (formerly know as Jane Siberry).Check out YouTube for one of Jane’s songs “Calling All Angels”.
More Jane Siberry–“Sail Across the Water”. Another current one with the piano player she played with [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Church of Annie, Saint Issa and Sister Zap Mama
Posted in Entertainment, Events, High 5, Love, Minneapolis, Music, My Life, What I see, Women on October 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Well Hello Dalai
Posted in Need I Say More, Perspective, Poems & Quotations, Something to think about, Spirituality, WTF?!, World on October 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
“It is critical to serve others, to contribute actively to others’ well-being. I often tell practitioners that they should adopt the following principle: regarding one’s own personal needs, there should be as little involvement or obligation as possible. But regarding service to others, there should be as many possible involvements and obligations as possible. [...]
I’ve Got Deep Pockets
Posted in thinking outloud on October 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve got deep pockets. No really….the pants I’m wearing today have really really deep pockets.
“Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile” by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Posted in Books on October 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just finished a book called “Timothy; or, Notes of an Abject Reptile” by Verlyn Klinkenborg.
I’d like to share my favorite paragraph that is profoundly resonating, from the book. It is the story written from a tortoises point of view. The end of the book Timothy plans an escape from the obsessively manicured symetrical [...]
Let your mind be free
Posted in Need I Say More, Perspective, Poems & Quotations, Seeing IS a verb on October 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Flow with whatever may happen
and let your mind be free;
Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.
This is the ultimate.
-Chuang Tsu
High 5 to Nobel Prize Winners Doris Lessing + Al Gore
Posted in Changing the world, Check It Out, Environment, Events, High 5, Women, World on October 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
2007 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Doris Lessing UK. b. 1919 in Kermanshah (then Persia).
Congrats Doris.
“that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny”
Here’s a good interview she did with the Washington Post October 7th 2006
Check out her web site at
http://www.dorislessing.org/
AND this great story on her….
Kudos [...]
Hillary Clinton will make a Great President for us
Posted in Changing the world, Check It Out, Good Ideas, How I See, Important, Need I Say More, News, Perspective, Politics, Sharing, Sustainable, What I see, Women, thinking outloud, tagged , Hillary Clinton, Politics, United States presidential race on October 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
So nice to not have to get sucked into the presidential race—My mind is made up—Hillary Clinton has my vote.
