Category Archives: Random


Field Report: Day 3

August 21, 2008 – 3:22 pm

My first intentional gift this morning was to pay for the bagel, and beverage the girl in front of me in line at my workday morning coffee shop had in her hands. I explained her that I was on a 29 day gift giving challenge, and could I pay for her items. She looked at […]

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The Practice Of Giving

August 19, 2008 – 11:15 am

Came across a remarkable article today, Giving Something Each Day May Keep the Doctor Away.  The piece is about the origins of the website (and challenge), 29gifts.org.  It’s a noble effort and a good reminder of what’s important in life, especially in this age of Consumerism.  Check it out, I think it will put a […]

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Silly Buddha Causing Problems Again

August 7, 2008 – 11:23 am

You have to love the British!  There’s a big ta-do over an offensive depiction of the Buddha in a Norwich gallery, which you can read about here.
Whether you think the piece is offensive or not, I find it more telling that the complaints were about the Buddha with a fruity phallus, and not the, “Christ […]

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Caught On The Subway

July 7, 2008 – 9:36 am

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 […]

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Turtle Buddha Creates Kindness

June 2, 2008 – 11:36 am

Enlightenment and epiphanies can show up in some pretty strange ways. The Buddha found it under a Boddhi tree, Nelson Mandela in prison and spiritual guru Ram Dass through psychedelic drugs. Little did I know, mine would arrive in the form of a hard-shelled reptile simply trying to cross the road — a turtle.
Shhhh, I’m […]

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