Author: mktdaf
Wordplay: Lux, with “Onomatomania”
Someone I’ve been reading lately is Georgia Tech’s Thomas Lux – most of us are trying to get closer & closer to getting it right, in so many ways in the things around us. I love the way he explores that, here: Onomatomania Thomas Lux the word for the inability to find the right word,…
Writings: A New Normal: Ten Things I’ve Learned About Trauma (Catherine Woodiwiss)
I love the way Catherine speaks to the problems we all have, as well as coming to some kind of terms, gracefully, when things happen: A New Normal: Ten Things I’ve Learned About Trauma by Catherine Woodiwiss I wasn’t really expecting painful things to happen to me. I knew that pain was a part of…
Writings: “I AM” – reflections with Ingrid
My friend Ingrid Gabriel saw “I AM” recently, and it touched her (as it did me)…I asked her what she came away with: Lately, I’ve been mulling over the documentary “I AM” and a little vignette that is included. The film reflects on the questions of what’s wrong with the world and how much of what we…
Cowboy thoughts, for the mornin’….
A LITTLE COMMON SENSE FROM AN OLD COWBOY … Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. Keep skunks and bankers at a distance. Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. Words that soak into your ears are whispered… not yelled.…
Passing: Pete Seegar leaves us, with a song
I can think of no one whose work has touched so many people. Pete never wavered from his commitment to workers, the oppressed, the hurt & to peace….. His songs will continue to be sung as long as songs are sung by people of heart & conscience. Gotta admit, this is the saddest of days.…
Writings: Lessons about the first follower…that’s real leadership
Want to start a movement? A key piece – the first follower. Derek Sivers explains:
Writings: Kevin Aschenbrenner – “Why I hunger for parables”
You already know that monks like me love parables, those tight little stories that tell the story so much better & completely… Kevin Aschenbrenner from Victoria, BC in Canada gets it, and wrote up his thoughts in this weekend’s Times-Colonist. Check out what he has to say!
Thoughts: Love & rest, one & two, activity & quiet
In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance. Love must be one and two at the same time. Only love is motion and rest in one. Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its…
Starpeople: Laura Magdalene Eisenhower, with looking outside of self & looking within
The other day I was daydreaming (when I was supposed to be meditating – what do you do?) about the time when I was six years old and my good parents took me to church one Sunday, with my brothers & sisters. For some magical reason, the sermon that Sunday was about the first bit…
Thoughts: Let joy follow…
From my friend Marissa (thanks!): We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. Buddha
Writings: A warrior, in action
The following is an excerpt by late Aikido master Terry Dobson in the anthology “The Peaceful Warrior,” edited by Rick Fields (Tarcher/Putnam, 1994) as retold by Ram Dass in An Experiment in Awareness – Mile High Church, Colorado, June 24, 1994. Here’s the original posting (with thanks, Baba Ram Dass!) The train clanked and rattled…
Thoughts: A river runs through it…
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by…