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Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 18:18:08 -0500
Subject: [Bird Sightings]
Rosey Throated Grosbeak & Northern (Baltimore) Oriole
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:51:08 -0500
Subject: [Gays Mills Spring Folk Festival]
Every Mother's Day Weekend in the wee hamlet of Gays Mills there is a wonderful confluence of folks, old-time, Irish, Bluegrass and other oddball musicians.
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:42:27 -0500
Subject: [Anguish Languish]
An amazing collection of tales told with plain english words... but somehow put through a blender.
An old favorite is "Ladel Rat Rotten Hut an tea Anomolous Woof" (say it out loud a few times...)
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 15:25:25 -0500
Subject: [Exporting Chaos]
Psychosocial repression of disorder inevitably leads to the exporting of chaos into other cultures and societies.
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 12:42:41 -0500
Subject: [Altan and Liz Carroll Concert in Chicago]
Since last time, I've been to an incredible concert at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, featuring two of my very favorite Irish fiddlers, Liz Carroll, of course, and Mairead ni Mhaonaigh of Altan...
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 15:04:14 -0500
Subject: [The God Delusion]
Richard Dawkins interview from salon.com
Q: You are working on a new book tentatively called "The God Delusion." Can you explain it?
A: A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. Religion is scarcely distinguishable from childhood delusions like the "imaginary friend" and the bogeyman under the bed. Unfortunately, the God delusion possesses adults, and not just a minority of unfortunates in an asylum. The word "delusion" also carries negative connotations, and religion has plenty of those.
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 05:58:29 -0600
From: kernelkole
Subject: revolution will not be televised
Jeff Chang's new book sheds light on -- and puts in
context -- the contingencies of American youth who
are using hip hop as a point of departure for their own
generational rebellion.
http://www.alternet.org/story/21232/
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 09:02:24 -0500
Subject: [Practice Progressive Compassion]
I am very weary of anger and disgust.
Unfortunately, I feel these powerful emotions deep in my heart and my gut, looking at the way that our misled and misleaders are manifesting their 'dreams'.
Yet, I always feel most empowered and powerful when I redirect my anger, away from feelings of hatred and disgust, toward positive and compassionate action.
If we can counter our own negativity, we will leave the vicious rabid hyenas of the right cowering at our power.
Silence is sometimes louder than howling. However, we will not be cowed by hateful and scurrilous lies.
One of the most important questions is how to redirect the misled, to undermine the strategies and tactics of the misleaders, by reassuring those in fear (and greed or hoarding is just another form of fear), explaining to those confused, that our progressive goals are not to disempower the misled, but to welcome them into the community of conscious, aware and deliberate beings.
As progressives we need to practice constant self-examination: to best present our vision of human society built on a coherent resonance with the synergistic principles of nature. We need to speak with humility -- to walk the talk of co-operation and consensus -- even with those whose actions we cannot respect.
What is the three word 'bumper sticker' phrase that will turn people's heads, and trigger self-examination?
How can we communicate a world view which is not seen as always negative -- against the abuses of power -- but positive, constructive and engaging of the whole?
Conscious Deliberate Awareness is the key.
Practice Progressive Compassion
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 10:22:34 -0500
Subject: [Meow!] Great Essay From Tom Robbins!
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 10:20:29 -0500
Subject: [Haiku Archive]
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:38:02 -0500
Subject: [Life is but a Dream...]
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:12:08 -0500
Subject: The [Mathematics of Love]
The Mathematics of Love
requires an extra dimension
to hold the volume of the heart
Internally expanding it is
eternally transcending
boundaries, yet limited
by the asymptote of desire.
What the heart most desires
is inevitably beyond its reach.
17 April 2004 . Evanston, IL
