Have any of you had the chance to visit TED? The passenger recently shared this video with me: Stroke of Insight but there are many others, and it is a rather intriguing website. You should check it out.
Sorry! for some reason I couldn’t get the movie to insert into the page this morning…
Archive for April, 2008
ted
Posted in cool science stuff on 30 April, 2008 | 3 Comments »
miyazaki
Posted in kids, movies on 28 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
as in, the director of the totoro movies…
my kids and i watched his film spirited away tonight. it was engaging, but a bit long. also, every 10 seconds ben or eleanor piped up with questions like: ‘why are those birds really paper?” or “is he really a radish or a monster?” or [...]
This is why I love my kids…
Posted in Family, kids, life on 25 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
recolored for your viewing pleasure by Eleanor.
Seattle Pics
Posted in Dalai Lama, Seattle on 23 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I finally posted the pics from Seattle. They are here: Seeds of Compasstion/Seattle Pictures. Most of them were taken outside the venues/workshops. I haven’t titled many of them yet, but enjoy.
Weekend Fun
Posted in friends, kids, life on 23 April, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am including a couple pictures from last weekend. it was so beautiful here. 70s and sunny. we had a gorgeous time doing nothing in particular and i even got in a little porching…which is very important. and definitely part of it.
four orange faced fiends: Acacia, Eleanor, Ben and Grace
Ben and [...]
just fucking stop it already.
Posted in drives me crazy on 23 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
i believe that there is not a sound that incites instant nauseousness for me more than the sound of toenails and fingernails being clipped. hate hate hate. right now, i am listening to a researcher at work clip the fingernails of her right hand while she catches them in her left, while standing in [...]
The Mount (and i’m not referencing sex)
Posted in random schhtufff on 22 April, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Edith Wharton’s summer home, where she wrote the mass of her books and short stories that made her the icon she is to readers and writers today, may be reclaimed by the bank and sold or destroyed if we don’t do something.
If you know anyone with some spare millions laying around, send them to this [...]
Universal Craziness
Posted in Discontent, Spiritual meanderings, Wants and Needs, life, me on 22 April, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Can anyone explain to me why the universe gives us exactly what we don’t want and keeps from us that which we crave? What sort of fucked up lesson is there in all that? If I am trusting my instincts and listening to my heart and it tells me I crave/need/desire A…but B [...]
life
Posted in WSU, Wants and Needs, life, me on 21 April, 2008 | 2 Comments »
i cancelled my summer classes. both of them. i am going to spend this summer doing exactly what i want to do: nothing. ; )
actually, i am going to spend it with my kids, and my loves, and doing yoga, and camping and swimming and hiking and gardening and riding my bike and maybe I’ll [...]
wow. amazing.
Posted in Dalai Lama, Seattle, food, friends on 12 April, 2008 | 7 Comments »
seattle is amazing. seeds of compassion is amazing. the dalai lama is amazing. dave mathews is amazing. these beautiful people i am with are amazing. our ability to manifest anything we set our minds to: amazing.
We started our travels Thursday evening at 6PM. By 4:30am Friday morning, we were [...]
