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Month: December, 2007

Nobel winner blames cultural decline on “blogging and blugging”

Been reading about this all day: Nobel winner blames cultural decline on “blogging and blugging” Almost everybody has ripped into her. I am torn between laying into her myself and well, holding it inside. Hmm, that last sentence pretty much encapsulates my views I guess . Is it fair to expect Nobel prize winners to [...]

What is terror?

True absolute dark terror is having to live in a community, a society, a country or a world where religion or other social norms have devolved to the extent that the helpless are punished for being helpless – as it has in Saudi Arabia. A country where a rape victim is jailed for 6 months [...]

Froglessness

If you are a Dhamma (Dharma) practitioner or even a Vipassana meditation practitioner, the meaning of froglessness will be evident. When a frog is put on the center of a plate, she will jump out of the plate after just a few seconds. If you put the frog back again on the center of the [...]

Coral – Derek Walcott

  This coral’s shape echoes the hand It hollowed. Its Immediate absence is heavy. As pumice, As your breast in my cupped palm. Sea-cold, its nipple rasps like sand, Its pores, like yours, shone with salt sweat. Bodies in absence displace their weight, And your smooth body, like none other, Creates an exact absence like [...]