Having a very relaxing labor day weekend with my mom at my sister’s place in Bedford, just outside Boston. After a game of badminton, I was watching my mom play with my niece while my nephew explored the culinary possibilities in soil. The niece…4 years old and the sweetest disposition possible – except when it [...]
I wrote a post over on my other site that is more focused on the development/engineering side of things on my thoughts on how to handle a mid-job crisis. Check it out and see if it makes sense to you. http://themindfulcoder.com/2010/08/your-job-get-with-it-or-get-out/
This is the occasional twitch post – that seems to be my MO with my blogs. I was just going through my previous posts on this one and they all are pretty embarrassing now and reflect what I was going through a couple of years back combined with unhealthy levels of self pity. The temptation to delete [...]
Siam Paragon was what it was always – busy, transactional and filled with Thais and tourists alike. As I walked by the new Mos burger outlet, I saw people standing in small groups all staring at a spot in the pond of white furniture. A woman was standing and tightly hugging a man who was [...]
I have spent the last 2 weeks telling myself I need to find a good blog editor for the Mac before I can churn out my next highly fluid post. We all know what’s going on here…
I think i know what I want. I just don’t know if I have the will or the fortitude required. My desire to ordain as a monk has been strengthening over the last year and especially over the last six months. I am reading Phra Farang, an English monk’s autobiographical account of his journey into [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]