I stopped by the Walker Art Center’s sculpture garden yesterday, Sunday, on a beautifully perfect fall afternoon to take a picture for an Arizona friend’s daughter’s flat stanley project. What can be more Minneapolis than Oldenberg’s Cherry & the Spoon and the downtown backdrop? As I walked close to the sculpture, flat stanley in tow, [...]
Archive for October, 2008
The Shift…check this out
Posted in Environment, Something to think about, World, tagged cahnge, Changing the world, shift, Shift the Movie on October 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A must see…….The film’s website is here: http://theshiftmovie.com/
Thanks Muse for the thoughtful heads up on this.
Wisdom from the Dalai Lama
Posted in Poems & Quotations, Spirituality, tagged buddhist, dalai lama, quotes, Spirituality on October 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human sisters and brothers and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities.
-His Holiness the Dalai Lama
The educational background of the candidates
Posted in Politics, Something to Act on, Something to think about, World, tagged biden, democrat, democrats, mccain, Obama, palin, Politics, republican, republicans on October 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Obama:
Occidental College – Two years.
Columbia University – B.A. political science with a specialization in international relations.
Harvard – Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Biden:
University of Delaware – B.A. in history and B.A. in political science.
Syracuse University College of Law – Juris Doctor (J.D.)
McCain:
United States Naval Academy – Class rank 894 out of 899 (meaning that, like [...]
Buddhist Wisdom
Posted in Poems & Quotations, Spirituality, tagged buddhist wisdom, dalai lama, religion, Spirituality on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“My call for a spiritual revolution is thus not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way of life that is somehow other-worldly, still less to something magical or mysterious. Rather, it is a call for a radical re-orientation away from our habitual preoccupation with self towards concern for [...]
