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 ...
Still crazy after all these weeks
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 Posted in My Life, Peace and Justice, Spirituality | 12 Comments »Friends, I'm sorry for my cyber-silence. There's been a subtle shift in my life, although I'm hard-pressed to explain it. Sometimes I've felt very much IN the Spirit, othertimes, no. Sometimes the weird melding of the false boundaries of ...
Snapshots
Monday, April 2nd, 2007 Posted in Language, Movies / TV / Stage, My Life, Spirituality | 6 Comments »Just some quick notes on what's going on now: Peaceful Warrior was great. My teacher's Zen and martial classes saw it together on Sunday. Everyone loved it. The audience as a whole seemed very appreciative. Hopefully, it will stay in theaters ...
Meeting a good friend for the first time
Sunday, March 18th, 2007 Posted in My Life, Teacher / Practice | 2 Comments »Just a few years ago, that heading would've been complete nonsense to almost everyone, and it still gets a smile from most people. Yes, there were HAM radio operators who struck up friendships with people they had never met, and ...
The Sweet Pain
Monday, March 5th, 2007 Posted in Jesus / Christianity, My Life, Poetry, Spirituality | 2 Comments »In 1998, I began writing a long poem, an epic poem, on the life of Christ. After about six weeks, I stopped writing it (though it didn't leave me). What I was unprepared for was the intensity of his Presence ...
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 ...
Love your neighbor
Friday, February 16th, 2007 Posted in Love, Mind, My Life, Spirituality | 18 Comments »Yesterday at work, I felt love for everyone around me. Friends, strangers, and even those whom I sometime don't get along with so much. It's a wonderful feeling. It was partially a conscious decision—I want to love them. It was also ...