Coming Down
Thursday, November 1st, 2007 Posted in Mind, My Life | 5 Comments »Jan 22, 2006 was a dramatic experience for me. In a way it was freeing, but it also messed me up a bit, and I imagine the problem has to do with my constant thinking. My search for Truth (note ...
National What-Writing Month?
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in My Life, Seen on the Web | 4 Comments »I learned recently that National Novel Writing Month is upon us. Every November, thousands sign up publicly for the challenge of writing a short novel, (or at least 50,000 words of a longer one) at nanowrimo.org. The challenge is inspiring, ...
Tien, and a few other notes
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 Posted in Books, Mind, My Life | 4 Comments »I'm reading my first novel in Esperanto, now, a book called Tien, by Claude Piron, under the pseudonym "Johano Valano." It's ostensibly a science-fiction story, but really it's about spiritual transformation... really surprising how some of the (co)incidences are lining ...
A subtle lesson
Monday, October 15th, 2007 Posted in Mind, My Life, Nonduality | 9 Comments »Sometimes the difficulty of blogging is that what seems blog-worthy is so subtle, it's very difficult to express. That's what's been going on with me, recently. Nothing big, dramatic, or exciting. Subtle things. For instance, I had an experience recently with ...
An Experiment
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 Posted in Mind, My Life, Spirituality, Teacher / Practice | 11 Comments »"Your life is your practice." The masters all say it. My teacher says it, Socrates said it to Dan in Peaceful Warrior, Tolle teaches it in his books. St. Paul taught the principle (Whatever you do, do as for the ...
Dear Madeleine
Sunday, September 9th, 2007 Posted in Books, Jesus / Christianity, My Life, Spirituality | 6 Comments »Madeleine L'Engle has passed on. Although really the most appropriate thing to say would be "Congrats!", I do find my eyes getting a bit moist thinking about it. Why? Well, that's a long story, but I've got plenty of time. Let's ...
Language rules my life.
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 Posted in Language, Mind, My Life | 2 Comments »I told my teacher today that my life has become language. In addition to studying ASP.net, "classical" ASP, OOP, and C#, my boss asked me a few days ago to become an expert in XML and XSL. (He knew ...
Recent 8
Sunday, July 8th, 2007 Posted in My Life | 5 Comments »A few weeks back, Darrell tagged me for the "Random 8" meme. At the time, I was focused on writing about other things, and even now, still not quite in a "random" mood, so how about a "recent eight," ...
Whew!
Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 Posted in My Life, Spirituality | 5 Comments »It's busy here, and will be for a while. Besides maintaining our current code, I'm studying Object-Oriented Programming, C#, and ASP.net—oh, yeah, and when I get a chance, which isn't often—Catalan. Just upgraded my system's RAM today, since it had ...
Shaking up and chillin’ out
Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 Posted in My Life, Poetry | 3 Comments »On Monday, it was announced at my work that we're changing platforms. That sounds minor, but for people who have spent years honing their talents in PHP, it's not. Many of my co-workers are having to seek positions in other ...