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August 1st, 2002
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Today's mantra:
"What does a man ever want to say about his own life and then he says the words but they don't really seem to mean the same after he says them as when the words were safely locked away inside his mind. Why do birds suddenly appear."
Been watching 500 Nations again ...
Haiku I found yesterday ...
Testing ...
Also some interesting links from the same school in Alaska ...
More fun? ... click
Hey guess what ... watched another fascinatin doco last night ... leading to this fascinating little search ... yes, it pointed out quite a few things about seti ... (a) we're kind of assuming aliens will have radio tehnology (b) they'll have similar senses to us esp sight & hearing (c) the 'broadcast' may not be speech, it could be music (d) how would we ever ever begin to understand their communication - esp if it's done via signals that take years to go back & forth (e) even face-to-face it may prove impossible ... thus the experiments with dolphins and we STILL don't know a heck of a lot about what they are communicating ... nice underwater footage of dolphins though ... they are soooo cute :)
PLUS WHAT ELSE FROM THAT LONG, LONG EMAIL ... :)
Well ... the recent pussy (cat) theme ... click ...
Added a couple more quotes to this collection :)
From one of yesterday's ...
Click & scroll to 'Dance the cosmic creative energy that transforms space into time' ...
... curiously leads me to this page ... {plus his wordsworth page} ...
{From a search for a poem that touches in a different way on one of yesterday's themes ...}
http://www.distant-star.com/issue13/jan_2001_non_human.htm
"What is the doorknob & what is the doorknob of life."
Here's another nice link :)
After a little shopping expedition ... re-visited one of the earlier searches and hey, it mentions our old mate Jack Schwarz ... click :)
And the one after it aint bad either ... click
{like where it says 'If you find yourself yawning at a passage(s) then pay particular attention to that passage because it is something that you particularly need to learn' 
}
Then a liddle further down the results comes Unarius ... {careful how you pronounce that}
That entire 'Zoo Fence' site looks most appealing ... and they have quite a decent links page apart from all their own 'stuff' ... :)
I like the 'seekers anthem' (on their decent links page) ... ah, the name of the group comes from a story in the Bible ...
"Oh, the Bible! To be sure, it says a great many things; but, then, nobody ever thinks of doing them." -- Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
{I must confess I've never read it ... and okay, the text is online but it aint quite the same as sitting in the back of a bus on the way to the hills and reading away ... }
{... in fact, I had this vague notion that Mark Twain wrote the book, which just shows
how little I know, I know}
Posted this ... click :)
{In case the board becomes defunct ... click here & scroll down & click on 742 to 744 - naturally enuf, a few added in the past week or so}
Unbelievable! ... I just happen to have the radio on (in the background) as I sit here tapping away ... and I hear it 'And so, to bed'. I had not heard it used in many, many years until just now ... as an intro to a discussion of what people wear to bed ... :)
I'd almost forgotten about this photo page ... may need some updating ...
"He wanted to tell me all the gorgeous stories about life."
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August 2, 2002
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Today's mantra:
"Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and I start to think about the air pockets in our galaxy."
netlingo site ...
CHECK innerpeace.org/monkeymind.shtml {I got disconnected Thursday b4 getting to it ...}
{Software for inner peace? ... what WILL 'they' think of next ...
}
Plus quite a FEW from the links & searches of the past couple of days ...
Testing ...
Here's a little tidbit I may not have mentioned yesterday (except to myself & your esp abils are probably at a farily primitive level, but you knew I was going to say that, didn't you?) ... enough frivolity ... the tidbit is the fact that I found that 'Uncle Tom's cabin' quote while looking for something about 'unmapped country within us' by Eliot ... which led me to the Jordon Cooper's page. There. I'm glad I got that off my chest ...
... on that aforementioned page ... I like 'The surly bird catches the germ' :)
www.word-detective.com looks worth a gander as well ...
From this morn's emails ...
This one kinda reminded me of that quote from 'The Matrix' abt the human race being a virus ... (as well as the recent dolphin links)
Search for some stuff that's 'missing' ...
"Could we ever shake the world. Could we ever shape our lives."
A few more sites this mornin I didn't jot down ... remind me 2 check the history file at some stage ... :)
{More on the surly bird ... and jimjr ... & a couple of others ... www.brainlock.org ... www.healingstory.org}
Speaking of brainlock ... I love this quote about cigarette smoke & urine {You'll have 2 click here 2c what I mean :)}
The one for March 5, 2001 aint bad either :)
Random spontaneous phrase of the day: "Go downstairs to the medical experts. Go downstairs and the medical experts are (always) there."
(Repeat this as often as you need to)
Seems that brainlock site has catcam & even 'naked mole-rat colony cam' ... yes, the words 'naked' and 'cam' would tend to attract another kind of web surfer ... :)
Plus antcam ... which kinda reminds me of something I wrote while at ERMHA :)
{Yes, I was reasonably inspired (or on lsd) when I wrote that stuff :)}
Oh yes, remind me 2 include a link to this week's leunig ... :)
Click here ... for some unknown reason, it kinda reminds me of that Wordsworth poem :)
Just heard another quote on the radio 4 the first time ... something like 'nationalism is the measles of mankind' ... ah, I kinda thought it might be Mr Einstein ...
That was part of the regular quiz, which is worth a listen if you're ever down this way ...
Quote of the day:
"I'm not a great believer in platonic relationships. Unless you happen to be Plato."
That cigarette quote :) ... hopefully you're not a smoker. Oh well, if you are, they do say it's healthy to laugh at yourself from time to time. :)
Also from an email today? ... www.saunalahti.fi/~tspro1/ ... I got disconnected b4 being
able to ...
... plus Madame SansNom ?? (ah, French for 'noname' ... reminds me of the time I attended an ERMHA gathering with a name-tag that said simply 'Me'. )
... & http://avenarius.sk/walsch/humility.htm
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August 3, 2002
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Today's mantra:
"Whenever a person starts 2 act a bit crazy, simply tell them to go & have fun in the navy."
From yesterday ...
Some lyrics abt wondering (& possibly wandering) & some other stuff ...
More sites that mention that surly bird :)
More Wordsworth
Another great Leunig :)
I'm not crazy. I'm just weird.
I am nothing to be feared.
Oh yes, did I happen to m3ntion a book called 'Unless' by Carol Shields, that I saw while browsing (physically - in a bookshop, that is) yesterday ... well, click here ... the Guardian site has the first chapter and it definitely looks worth a more-than=passing glance ... the plot seems uncannily close to yours truly in some respects ... :)
Testing ...
{I'm right in the middle of one of my famous surges ... I suppose a zen master would say I'm giving my monkey mind a damn good workout! }
This article ---> into my 'mental health sites' lists ...
- Finland schizophrenia support
- Robert Whitaker Mad in America
I had a dream ...
From this morning's emails ... click
Shot this along to the crew ...
Hmmm ... after mentioning Finland just recently ... seems the creator of this site dwells there ... :)
This page also comes from a recent search ... yes, I like the bit about 'as Martians, how would we conceive of human happiness judging from earthling singles ads, obituaries ...'
{You'd have to draw the conclusion that the human race is a pretty confused species just at the moment, wouldn't you ...}
Click
Another search sparked by something I read in recent daze ...
dss2 :)
Gardening tip? - garlic & chilli mixture sprayed onto plants controls insects without need 4 pesticides ... :)
- William Langewiesche (WTC)
More vital spiritual wisdom :)
More lyrics heard recently ... click {esp. 'Otherwise'}
As a counterpoint to some of today's earlier links ... click :)
Some amusing mottos/slogans ... click :)
Y.O.D.A. ... I like the Dr Seuss computer poem as well :)
Oh yes, did I happen to mention this month's 'SHINE' ?? ... at least one excellent atricle and a great little cartoon that touches on some recent themes in an amusing way ... lemme see if I can find the mag & scan it ...
click :)
The article looked very familiar (from the web) ... lemme see ... ah, this looks a lot like it
Shoot this one off as an addendum? to the crew ... click ... it makes some EXCELLENT points ... esp about recovery & trusting others (within the existing dysfunctional 'system') ...
{and when you further consider that the 'normality' you might be attempting to coax them 'back' to is hardly an enchanted, magical wonderland juts at the moment ...}
Plus this? ... online book
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August 4, 2002
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Today's mantra:
"I can taste things in my throat, whether I'm on land or in a boat."
From yesterday's meanderinks ... - yes, this guy seems to devote a LOT of energy into the old motto 'Seek & ye shall find' doesn't he ... he sure has found a lot of different kinds of people who offend him ... :)
While we're on that kinda theme ... did I mention that 'human race = virus' quote recently ... well, something very, very analogous appears on this page from yesterday ...
... I also like the one about 'stop looking into mirrors' :)
... uploaded a few more scans ... :)
Another phenomenal dream last night ... something about scribbling down images on a piece of paper and then they come to life ... and far better than I can ACTUALLY draw in 'real life' ... maybe I have a latent Van Gogh within me ... no, wait ... I'm fairly fond of my ears, thankyou ... :)
{Though I have always had a great fondness for that Don McLean song ...}
- Bill Hicks humanity virus shoes :)
Quote of the day :)
Yes, Rimmerworld might not be at the top of a list of must-visit places ... :)
Guess what I've been re-watching a bit lately ... click :)
There was even some mention of nettle soup :)
Include this satire wire link I was reading about last evenin ... click :)
With all the recent 'stuff' about trick cyclists ... decided 2 update this file a bit ... The links section now has quite a few places 2 visit & become ... :)
Watched a fabulous little doco just now ... about a place called Auroville
The Matrimandir looks a nice spot as well ...
While we're in the mood for memorable quotes ... click here ...
Tweaked a few of the links etc in this collection :)
Interesting
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/04/1028157861590.html
article ...
Can't help meself ... here's a few more ... it is a nice quote though ... and I just love
Octopus garden :)
{Yes, the one at the Melbourne aquarium had hundreds of eggs last time I was there (I was half-inclined to pop along today but got up a bit late after last night}
Great image for meditation? - the pumping heart :)
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August 5, 2002
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Today's mantra:
"Sometimes a man says FUGGITY-WUG. (repeating this three times)"
{Note: You may well need 2 listen to the Gyuto monks CD to fully appreciate this subtle liddle attempt of mine at humour.
}
Quite a few from this morning's emails ...
Some thoughts abt Enlightenment
{'There are good reasons why this information has been kept secret for so long ...' & 'Do not try this at home' ... }
Ditto
Radical Gradualism
Yowies :)
Funny toon
Oh yes, plus last night watched another of those flicks that really gets you asking yourslef how real is 'real' ... here's a hint ... or here :) ... or here ... or here ... or here ... or maybe here :)
And who could ever forget this classic line ...
I also learned that Mr Leunig won an award at the Banff film festival :)
Testing ...
Phrase of the day: " ... the man adrift, with his direction-finding duck ..."
{from the Animated Leunig doco :)}
Also this sage advice ...
Interesting page :) - kinda reminds me of that hilarious 'debate' last week where one speaker (of the femiale persauasion) gave a very re-vised version of the Adam & Eve (& snake) story ... :)
How about a random scolding :)
{I clicked on 888 if you was at all interested :)}
Found SomeOne ElSe who has rAndOm tHoughTs ... click ... thier livejournal for May-July 2002 is worth agander aswell ...
Another Leunig quote {I was actually looking for his cartoon about 'freedom of speech' ... where the cartoon character says that in theory they do have it ... 'yet I dare not tell Mrs Brown how much her breasts excite me ... I dare not tell my boss somehting-or-other .. I dare not tell my family ...'}
Oh yes, I also tweaked this little file just a tad ... and speaking of things that would require the patience of a monk ... that Leunig doco ... they said their methods mean that an entire day's work with the figurines translates to about 8 seconds of onscreen animation! :)
Yeah, that doco chronicled his recent project where some fifty of his best cartoons became one-minute animations. It's a charming insight into how he goes about creating what he creates. Actually, when I first heard they intended to 'animate' his cartoons, I had my doubts. But they've done a wonderful job, with 'claymation' taking one frame at a time.
So ... added just a couple of links to this collection ...
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August 6, 2002
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Today's mantra:
"My Mum said I was very good ... and I wanted to be a very nice person ..."
From Monday ... this guy has a few links in his collection :)
"What is your knowledge of the world (& all its events & circumstances)."
Some interesting e-cards this morning ... such as this & also this one
{Traditional Henna - the other one was monks blowing very LONG horns}
Those quotes from yesterday ... I didn't note down the site but there was an amusing one along the lines of "In the beginning, there was nothing. Then God said 'let there be light'. And there was still nothing but at least you could see it." :)
{I suppose one could plug some of those key-words into Google & see what pops out ...}
Ah ... a quick glance at the history list and it's on this particular ... I believe I found it via a links page that would take you a few weeks (or months ... years ... lives) to sift thru ...
click
Cute screensaver :) - well, I'm yet 2 install it, but the adverts are certainly enticing enough ...
Ah yes, quote of the day ... click :) ... or possibly
Also in today's emails ...
Click :)
Here too ...
http://www.salon.com/sex/col/tenn/2002/06/18/tennis_33/index2.html ... I like the phrase 'tectonic shift in my emotional makeup' ... {Some other thought-provoking writing there ...}
Hey, if you feel like sending an e-card, feel free to use one of the monk images I just uploaded 2
this album :)
Checking one of my random pages ... the very first clisk takes me to an old favourite :)
{I wonder what Gilbert's doing these daze ... }
Getting the little grey (cells) ticking over about an earlier link ... and the double-standards we humans are so awfully fond of ... yes, that advice column ... um, how come she gets all the sympathy while his actions are seen as 'heinous' ... why is it okay for her to be overcome by her emotions (and thus provoke our compassion) & somehow not okay for him 2 have difficulty dealing with his emotions that arise in response to hers ... does seem like an incredible double standard, if you step back a bit ... and sadly, I've met very few if any human beings who want to be truly honest & impartial about such things ... hmmm :)
... maybe we've all watched far too many tv shows with a 'goodie' and a 'baddie' in them :)
More Red Dwarf ... here ... and also here :) ... & you might as well click on this one as well ...
"Don't blame me. I'm only doing what the voices in my head tell me to do ..."
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.hurley/
Hmmm ... I had never heard the term Samskara before today ...
Another interesting page
Quote of the moment: Trying to be interesting and charming is really draining to me :)
{The entry for April 15, 2002}
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August 7, 2002
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Today's mantra:
"I see no answer to any of your questions ... that could ever be answered by questions ..."
Having another look at that hermit doco I mentioned a while back ... yes, in some cultures the hermit is seen as a vital component of the community & is supported by them ... rather than being seen as a twisted recluse ... :)
Reminds me a lot of that Lobsang Rampa book The Hermit ... I highly recommend it if you ever see it in your local library ... didn't find a heck of a lot about it in cyberspace last time I looked ...
Testing ...
Watched another old fave the other night ... it's always had a special kind of appeal ... maybe because the central character is a poet/writer who has enormous struggles fitting in with 'accepted modes of conduct' ...
And if you've never seen it ... checkitout even if ONLY for the scene immediately after they do a 'lobotomy' on him to make him more placid & co-operative ... :)
Quote of the day: "The wonder of the totality of who you are on so many levels is going
to explode into your consciousness in a moment of time" - click here
PLUS the phrase 'making millisecond decisions' ... (I know what that's like :)
Plus ... one culd plug the phrase 'final healing process for your soul' into Google {in fact, I believe I did just that at one stage last week}
"What's the difference between an ice cream and a nice scream."
had a very vivid dream again last night ... in which a bone in my right hand was broken. But it was no ordinary bone - it was a 'horizontal' bone between my fourth & fifth fingers, which isn't exactly your traditional human anatomical structure! Anyway, for some reason it was a Sunday in the dream - or at least I thought it was, and it's my dream after all - and I remember thinking this means I'll have to get myself along to the hospital somehow & get plaster put on it and be restricted for awhile ... {don't ask me what it means - I only report them, I don't interpret 'em}
In the morning's emails ...
Deb
Ancient (rejuvenating) jam :)
Soul of healing meditations
Long, long emails this morning as I wait for the weather to clear ... :)
More lyrics
http://www.a3.com/cgi/board/message6/802.htm
Ah, one of Kate's songs is called The Dreaming :)
While on the subject of interesting lyrics ... click
Ah yes, 10CC did have a song called Life is a minestrone :)
Cute sticker ... click here :)
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August 8, 2002
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Today's mantra:
"One day a man suddenly wanted to say JOLLBOPS (a few times) but he couldn't figure out why. So he didn't."
Testing ...
A search from one of yesterday's emails ... click here
Quote of the day:
"I've spent my whole life waiting for the right guy."
"So, I'm the right guy??"
"No. I'm just sick of waiting."
Plus a bonus ... "So he found religion. I'm hoping to find religion myself one day ... when I'm older ... and looking to cut a deal."
As well as ... "Hey, shouldn't you be giving me this advice on stone tablets?"
Oh yes, some early birthday pressies from overseas ... tossed up the following ...
Rumi ... yes, it's ONE thing to read on the web but nothing can ever really replace a book :)
What else ...
Well, there's quite a few artists in the 'Altered States' book that I was previoulsy unfamiliar with ... remind me to plug their names into Google at some stage, will ya ... one painting is uncannily similar to the doodles I've been scribbling down lately :)
Interesting review ... click here :) - hadn't heard that term b4 ... 'a Yes completist' ... and I was in that category myself once-upon-a-time :)
From that Rumi ... comes our phrase of the day ... "You talk in whispers of my madness" ...
... does not appear as an exact phrase in all of cyberspace ... with the possible exception of this journal which is about 2b uploaded ... {and naturally, the aforementioned page which should also be joining it soon enough} ...
From a recent episode of MediaWatch ... the five principles :)
More interesting e-cards in today's mail ... click :)
Mainly this cute little guy ...
Link to todays Leunig ... oh p[lus an interesting article about a concept & site called
www.bookcrossing.com ...
Late in the day tweaked some old links and added a few newies and eventually came up with
this neat little file ...
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August 9, 2002
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Today's mantra:
"Two men walk into a bar and the other man who's watching them says something and then the first two men stop for a moment before continuing on their way."
From that Yoga book I've been flicking through ... ah yes, the idea of meditating in a
forest ... okay, Nepal is a bit far away just now but still ... :)
Some amusing letters to the editor in yesterday's paper ... click & scroll down to perturb :) {It may not make total sense if you didn't witness the program being referred to}
Plus an article abput that bookcrossing site ... but that doesn't appear 2b online as yet ...
However, I did find this little portfolio which is worth a gander ...
Quote of the day: "If you're not a stupid, hateful jerk, so much the better for you. But if you ARE a stupid, hateful jerk, chanting is your only hope" - click here
Somehow today's emails got onto the subject of crop circles ... remind me 2 include the e-card and the links, will you ... thanks ... :)
e-card
Hawkins
search ...
Hmmm ... hadn't heard any Kate Bush for yonks (apart from listening to my own CD at home lately) ... then just now as I'm standing in line at the checkout ... this song comes on ... :)
{"Let's exchange the experience" ... could be interpreted a number of ways}
Then found another huge Rumi site ... click
More lyrics (from the seventies) ... click
"Life is always dollar for money."
Ah! ... 'ego is not a dirty word' mentions Leonard Cohen! And that was years & years before I knew who the heck leonard Cohen was ... or even what the actual lyric was ... because in the mid-seventies the internet was barely the gleam in some nerd's imagination ... :)
dss :)
Speaking of lyrics from the 70's ... and songs about dreaming ... listening to today's radio quiz, they play
this one :)
Hey, the third site listed in that crop circle search ... boy! what a page! ...
click!
... and that movie 'Signs' opens the day before my birthday :) ... and another song I overheard today was about Lucille ... so what, you ask ... well, part of the lyric is about a 'crop in the field' ... :)
{and I used to sing strange variants on that catchy little tune ... with four HUNDRED children ... and a cop in the field ... }
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August 10, 2002
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Today's mantra:
"What am I doing mister policeman? Well, I'm learning about all the optical decisions of life."
From yesterday ... comes this little page ...
Plus this article I never got to read online? ... click
Plus ... www.gameonweb.co.uk/goodies.htm ??
An age-old question ... :)
Quote of the day: "I usually don't know what I'm going to say until long after I've said it."
Hmmm ...
Nice page ...
http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i3/saidel-fish.html
Speaking of age-old perplexities ...
Hey! That 'Great Dreams' site is even huger than I first thunk. They even have a Thor Heyerdahly page which is worth a peek - that's if you aren't already waist deep wading through all the recent links & stuff ...
Quite a few more sites from the day's emails ... remind me to check the history ...
Kidstuff
Scary stuff? :)
More stuff 2 read & ponder ...
Ditto
Interesting translation of 700-year-old poem - esp the final line! :)
Interesting quote ...
Fringe Archaeology - but it's fun living on the fringe :)
ArthurNet
More sights/sites
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August 11, 2002
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Today's mantra:
"What is your next colour of the world."
Great little trip to the Museum yesterday ... I bet you can't tell me the most popular exhibit over the years by visitors to the Museum ... a (stuffed) horse! ... more details when I grab the pamphlets out of my rucksack ...
... I'm not online just now but possibly try this ... or this to mention two ...
Another pamphlet describes Melbourne in the year 1901, in the lead up to federation ...
"Melbourne has been transfromed into a huge madhouse and its citizens into a crowd of gibbering lunatics. Never in its whole history has such a wild wave of lunacy swept with such blizzard force through its streets, never has common sense been so prostituted, never has the shrine of lickspittledom been knelt at by such a mass of hypnotised devotees."
- 'A Few Days in a Mad House' in Tocsin, May 1901
{Some might argue not a LOT has changed ... }
Pity I didn't take my dinky little camera along as there is a lovely leafy arch over part of the duckpond and the sun was hitting it at just the right angle ... which may not be the case nextime ... :)
Those peru images in that thor link yesterday ... got me thinking ... where was that fabulous site of peruvian snaps ... was it Dan Heller?? ... click
Reply ---->
Sometimes I wonder whether I am being remote-controlled by midget submarines from another planet.
Here's that federation pamphlet .. :)
Hmmm ... disturbing article
... and speaking of past attempts 2 understand ourselves ...
click - I read the bits abt secretivemess in the museum yesterday ... (but it went into more detail of sub-categories ... from sly & cunning to those humans without guile at all who can't seem 2 understand the need 4 secrets ... :)
Here's those Peru images ...
- Gigs Wena
From another pamphlet I was reading on the train yesterday ... plugged a few choice words into Google ... and the second one on the list is abt peru ... :)
Then this one in Nz ... plus another
... not 2 mention
this one in China ...
Some fabulus art ... didn't get the chance to click on the larger versions b4 my online time for Sunday expired ...
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August 12, 2002
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Today's mantra:
"What did a man do with all his early warnings (of life) ..."
Pandora's Box & other poems ...
Mirror & biofeedback ?? ... tosses up a few
- Robert Franzen
Pak Ou cave
Quote of the day: "I feel that if we absolutely have to, we can be honest with each other."
A few more ... click
And from a recent Simpsons episode ... "Now, Lisa. The whole reason we have elected officials is so we don't have to think all the time ..."
... I believe the same episode had an incoming comet ... headed stright for Springfield ...
From yesterday's ...
absurd cold knives groan
dazed castaways pleading grass
strokes, laconic juice
Must be a day for quotes ... here's another collection of somebody's favourites ...
Institute for Play - sounds uncannily like something in my Ideal Day program :)
Oh yes, a fabulous doco on Tolkien last night ... drawing interesting parallels with the sixties ... with the
hippies ... & the Beatles would you believe ...
{Interesting 2c fusion anomaly cropping up again
}
A nice story about the Belgrave wizard ... click
Saw a cute little golden book while shopping ... for a larger view, why not
click here :)
Speaking of interesting books ... click here
Looking for some info on a Red Dwarf plotline ... found a site with an interesting name ...
click :)
Hmmm ... they also cover 'Farscape', which I only ever watched once but it was an interesting ep ... again asking that unanswerable of questions ... what is real & how can you be sure ... :)
A bit more of Albert
Plus some more interesting lyrics ...
Updated an old favourite just a smidgeon ... click on this critter ...
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August 13, 2002
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Today's mantra:
"If a person can manage to remain focused during a time of trouble his mind will find peace somehere or other."
In the morning's emails ...
"The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can love and serve others, we must love ourselves, even in our imperfection. If we don't embrace our own defects, we can't love others with their shortcomings." - Jim Warner, Aspirations of Greatness
It aint out there in cyberspace apparently ... click ...
Oh yes, plus this little tidbit ...
Last night wasn't exactly great for star-gazing with all that wind & hail ... I wonder if we here in Oz can see that constellation ... there nmust be a website that would fill me in ...
Hmmm ... this one would seem 2 incdicate that we can't see it this time of year ... nice background info on the characters represented by the constellations ... nice art too ...
Looks like Perseus is 'near' the Pleiades ...
More - including a colouring-in book :)
Oh yes, also checked out a few of those Einstein quote sites from yesterday's link ... interesting ... some stuff of his I hadn't read b4 ... such as this page -
Then one link called 'Uncle Albert's Quotes' seems defunct ... and a search for it tooses up some interesting ones ... {Reminds me of that Paul McCartney song 'Uncle Albert'
}
This page has an interesting typo down the bottom ...
And finally (?) ... this quote from another rumi search ...
"The mystery does not get clearer by repeating the question, nor is it bought with going to amazing places. Until you've kept your eyes and your wanting still for fifty years, you don't begin to cross over from confusion."
{A bit tough when you've been raised in a society based on instant-gratification & impatience
} - it's at the first site on this list -
{well, it did top the list in Aug 2002 ... who knows what the passage of time may see ... okay, the precise address is here :)
Needles to say, that collection of words tosses up a
couple ... like www.zenzero.com ... :)
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August 14, 2002
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Today's mantra:
"I try not to say any naughty things about my life anymore."
Cute image from one of yesterday's ... click :)
Also from Tuesday afternoon ... this page - esp the first paragraph
Oh, plus this thought-provoking parable {so, a well-named site ...}
Quote of the day: "If we all became what we wanted to be when we were 11 or 12, we'd all be astronauts."
Though some of the ones on this page are worth considering ...
The book review page aint bad either ...
Interesting interview - I saw this clock briefly on some news program last evening - click :)
Some useful tipz ... click
Checking some links ... re-visited an old fave ...
Interesting quote on this avo's quiz ... click :)
Happened to turn the radio on when a guy was discussing something that sounded a LOT like that
bookcrossing site ... and then he says the site's name and it is ... :)
... and as he said, it's a great idea for school projects etc ...
Saw an interesting trivia book while out shopping ... click :)
"I was shaking all my life. Shaking a dollar. Shaking my fist."
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August 15, 2002
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Today's mantra:
"I think sometimes it's beautiful to say weird things like that."
Interesting session with the radio computer guru this morning ... pity they don't seem to keep the audio avaliable in an archive - only for the week following the broadcast ,...
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Yes, one site sounded fascinating, www.cyranoserver.com ... but alas it seems 2 have gone out of business ... :)
Some interesting 'stuff' posted around this date here :) - aklways remembering that they being US-based are about 16 hrs behind ... :)
Plus had a gander at this - {It may well scroll off in time ... but then, all things must pass,
as George said ... }
A search for one quote a while back ... 821
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Quote of the day:
"Well, it's true. Let's not kid ourselves any longer. The people offering re-assurance are themsleves in need of re-assurance and so their words are likely to be formulaic & platitudinous & quite unconvincing. {The only TRUE reassurance must come from within}"
Ah ... a penny that hadn't quite dropped before today ... Rumi was born in what we
now call ... Afghanistan ...
And looking for that artist's name ... leads me here
A search of that cyrano site I mentioned earlier on ...
Hey. Tomorrow is the 25th anniversary of Elvis death. Just hought you might like 2 know that.
Another book 2 add 2 my list of 'must-get-around-to-reading-that-one-of-these-daze' ...
... but what IS a person supposed 2 do if the rules keep changing ... :)
Here's another ...
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