March 2010
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Church of Bruce
Last night I attended “A Bruce Springsteen Eucharist to Feed Portland’s Hungry” at the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral. It was very “Portland” in that it was a totally cool event but low key and understated. No one was screaming “Broooce!” There was a big turnout and everyone was in appropriate church mode, although possibly half of them were at the last Springsteen concert in Portland,...
August 2009
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Hey You--Pick Up Your Crap!!!!
Dear (not) Asshole Who Leaves Dog Poop Bags in the Forest,
I know you’ll never read this—I’m writing it for me. I completely and utterly hate you. More than I hate Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh put together, and they both make me want to puke.
Stop leaving your dog poop bags on the hiking trails in the Hoyt Arboretum. Have you ever noticed that the convenient dispenser where...
March 2009
2 posts
Planet Xphrynth
I subscribe to evolution but I also suspect that the dramas that play out on Planet Earth didn’t start on Planet Earth. I think the positive and negative types were seeded here from other planets and galaxies, just like pioneers who settled the American west. The Middle East conflict that’s been going on for a few thousand years? A tiny drop in the bucket. It’s possible that the...
Spiritual (R)evolution
Acceleration is accelerating which means more people than ever are unable to keep up. With anything.
Take technology, one of the top things people are unable to keep up with. You could spend all your waking hours frantically keeping up with today’s latest technology, and when you were finished, it would already be obsolete. So that’s a waste of time.
News occurs at Twitter pace...
February 2009
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Comedy: Never a Recession
It’s one thing that everyone is poor, roving bands of wild animals are squatting in abandoned foreclosed homes, terrorists are plotting to kill babies and the bird flu could still erupt in a sudden pandemic, but the loss of comedy seemed like the final death knell to happiness in this world. Comedians have been in a panic since January 20, when it seemed that like the rest of us, they would...
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Republicans
Republicans are really getting on my nerves. I’m trying to be like our president (and a good Buddhist) and be welcoming and non-judgmental but it annoys me that they’re trying to ruin everything. I don’t hate all Republicans—I love my Republican neighbors, for example—fine people who embody the sound ideological values Republicans were all about in the first place,...
Two lips for Tulips
My friend Barbara gave me some gorgeous tulips, my favorite flower. Flowers are the highest physical expression of spirituality, whose only purpose is to provide unparalleled beauty and the elevation of human consciousness. Tulips look like candy, lollipops in particular, but no one eats them. Flowers generally are not edible—mostly exempt from the nasty food chain. No one preys on flowers,...
January 2009
8 posts
What Condition I'm In
This post is a condensation of an article I wrote last July for the Horizon, the Buddhist newsletter I publish.
If you’re pretty old, you’ll remember a song from 1968 by Kenny Rogers and The First Edition called “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In).” One verse goes like this:
I pushed my soul in a deep dark hole and then I followed it in I watched myself crawlin’ out as I...
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A Leader for All Humanity
The Pleadians, who do a lot of channeling http://www.pleiadians.com/ say that the 25 years between 1983 and 2012 are a “nanosecond” in time in which “humanity must pass through the eye of a needle.” We are moving to the next level of consciousness as a species. I was having my doubts for the longest time. Everything has been so awful for the past 8 years but now at last, something truly...
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One More Day
Can we stand it? Does bush have one last disaster to spring on us on his way out? (Hope finds the correct door).
Up for the Rising
That was some show. Bruce Springsteen’s head must have exploded when he walked out to a million faces as far as he could see, a gospel choir behind him, Lincoln looking down at him (no pressure there) and belted out “The Rising.” It was a great collective sigh, a giant leaf blower blasting away the past 8 years of horror in a sea of Li li li li li li li li li li li li li li li li...
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Ozzie Obama
Today, my dog Ozzie declared that he is changing his name from Ozzie Anable to Ozzie Obama. Unfortunately, we had to break the news to him that despite the name change, he is is still not in the running to become the Obama dog. Sasha and Malia want a puppy—Ozzie is 11 (tho he can pass for an elderly puppy). He’s still very excited. It’s a good time to be “O.”
Mercury is Retrograde
Mercury is retrograde
It has begun…until Feb. 1. Mercury, planet of annoyances and going back to the past. We had scanner issues, bush said goodbye—and never mentioned the really big news that happened today—the miraculous plane crash in the Hudson in which no one got hurt. The pilot was a true hero. He acted quickly and decisively. Juxtaposed with bush, who never did either in any...
More Technology Than I Ever Imagined
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d be learning so much at my age, especially technological things, which I never paid any attention to at all. My position is, if I can’t figure the thing out out by “poking around” (as my husband always accuses me of doing—“you just poke around”) then the thing has too many features. I don’t read manuals. Even...