Her Passing
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 Posted in Love, My Life | 10 Comments »My mom passed away Sunday evening. She had been hanging on, despite the fact that all of us had individually encouraged her to let go. However, when all three of us--my brother, father and myself--did so together, and assured her ...
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 ...
Into the wild
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Love, Movies / TV / Stage, Spirituality | 9 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 ...
No-Mind and Love
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in Books, Love, Mind | 2 Comments »I'm going through a book this year which I bought long ago and never read: The Old Hermit's Almanac by Fr. Edward Hays. It's an unconventional book of days, full of delightful fun and deep wisdom. Here's part of today's ...
Mysticism and sexuality
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Love, Spirituality | 17 Comments »I want to thank everyone who commented on my last post. I also want to clarify and dig deeper into part of the huge area I addressed in it. What I was really wondering when I asked "why is ...
sex
Sunday, August 5th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Love, Spirituality | 16 Comments »Ah, so I got your attention! Yesterday, I wrote my first poem in Esperanto... unfortunately, I neglected to save it on my computer, and when my machine did one of its random reboots, it was lost and I haven't been ...
Never underestimate the power of friendship
Monday, April 30th, 2007 Posted in Love, Spirituality | 3 Comments »Cho Seung-Hui had no friends. One friend, and the Blacksburg massacre might never have happened. It would take a strong friend indeed to love a soul that troubled. It takes strength to throw the demons off of someone's back. But that's ...
Bold Kindness Thwarts Bank Robberies
Friday, April 13th, 2007 Posted in Love, Peace and Justice, Spirituality | 2 Comments »You got to listen to this! NPR interviews FBI special agent Larry Carr about "SafeCatch," a program that may already have reduced the number of bank robberies by nearly half. The secret? Smother them with attention and helpfulness. The Dharma / ...
The Swimming Pool
Saturday, March 24th, 2007 Posted in Love, Spirituality, Teacher / Practice | 3 Comments »In January, 2006, I had an experience that I sometimes think of as "the empty holodeck." It was jolting and mildly disorienting, but I consider it one of the most important spiritual experiences of my life. This last January, I ...
The Golden Path has been shortened
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, Love, My Life, Spirituality | 7 Comments »Every now and then, I see a message in something objectively ordinary and meaningless, but subjectively a divine message. Today, as I walked away from work to my car, I took a shortcut through a Dillard's store. There, on what ...
