There are certain things I simply adore about the information age. One of those things is the ease, and speed, with which I (as a fan) can connect with someone whose work I like. The latest iteration of this phenomenon for me is Mark Hurst, author of Bit Literacy. I found the [...]
January 9, 2009 – 1:39 am
A couple months back I read One City by Ethan Nichtern. It’s a meditation on the Buddhist principle of interdependence as well as coping with life in a large modern city. There’s also some excellent thoughts on divorcing meditation techniques from religious or spiritual trappings, and instead promoting those techniques as tools for [...]
I am visiting New York city for the mostly annual visit to my wife’s family. We are having a grand time. I love this town! As we were headed to Chinatown from the Upper East side o the subway, I was approached by one Garth Wolkoff. Garth is an English teacher [...]
December 5, 2007 – 12:03 pm
Just wanted to put out a quick note about a couple of excellent sites for anyone wanting to study up on religious/spiritual writings who doesn’t want to spend lots of cash or clutter up their book shelves.
SacredTexts.com is a huge site with more writings than I have future days. From their About section, it is [...]
November 17, 2007 – 12:03 am
I would like to indulge your imagination for a moment, with your kind permission. See a tall mountain, lightly capped with snow, its peak above the cloud line on a bright cloudless day. See the very tip, a jagged platform of rock stabbing heavenwards from the bowels of the Earth. See, balanced [...]
