The most beautiful blog on the Web
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008 Posted in Spirituality | No Comments »...is back! Mark Walter's original blog, Eternal Awareness, is back after a very long hiatus, at a new URL: http://eternalawareness.com. When I say that his is the most beautiful blog on the Web, I don't say it lightly. I mean his ...
The Boy from Lebanon
Saturday, August 16th, 2008 Posted in Love, Movies / TV / Stage, Peace and Justice | 2 Comments »The Boy from Lebanon is a thought-provoking and intense depiction of a true story, a plot by Hezbollah to assassinate then-president François Mitterand by using a child. It's one of the most striking foreign films I've seen in the last ...
This is big
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in Seen on the Web | 3 Comments »So big, in fact, that I put off posting this for days. I can't quite process it. Perhaps you my friends, can help me to do so. Since childhood, I've been a science-fiction fan, and as someone who grew ...
Back from Montréal
Saturday, July 19th, 2008 Posted in Language, My Life, Peace and Justice, Seen on the Web | 4 Comments »I've just returned from a trip to Montréal for a joint conference of the United States' and the Pan-American Esperanto associations. I had a wonderful time, and my only regret was that I had to leave early for travel and ...
Freedom
Saturday, July 5th, 2008 Posted in Spirituality | 3 Comments »Seven years ago, I made the bodhisattva vow. And now, I'm feeling it. There is nothing more I want to do with my life than to set people free. Everywhere I go, to whomever I speak, I see bondage and ...
Announcing RockOm.net
Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Music, My Life, Spirituality | 3 Comments »(Time for absolutely shameless plug!) Well, after months of work, it's here... RockOm.net is now live! I'm proud to be a part of the RockOm team. RockOm is an online music community with a spiritual focus... but inclusive of all ...
Why does Spirit want to be embodied?
Sunday, June 1st, 2008 Posted in Movies / TV / Stage, Quick Thoughts, Seen on the Web, Spirituality, Teacher / Practice, Uncategorized | 6 Comments »Here's just two reasons:
Into the wild
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Love, Movies / TV / Stage, Spirituality | 7 Comments »I could write a thousand-word review about this movie. I could call it the Walden of our times. I could tell you how it is an ode to the beauty of America as The Constant Gardener was to that of ...
The Quieting Blogosphere
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Seen on the Web, Site log / Geek | 15 Comments »OK, I'm blogging less, and I've admitted it. But what about you? Out of my formerly blog-active friends only Carl and Bob keep on at their impressive posting paces. It seems to me that most of my blogging friends have ...
Wordpress woes
Monday, April 21st, 2008 Posted in Site log / Geek | 2 Comments »This is the second time in the last two weeks that I've lost a long post that I was working on just a bit before I was going to click the "Publish" button. Somehow, it seems to happen in between ...