Tag: polemics
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It’s Always ‘NOW’… brought to You by ‘Then’…
Ruminating on a lecture I recently watched by neuroscience researcher and popular “new atheist” Sam Harris on ‘Death and the Present Moment’, among other things, I was impressed by the fact that he was able to cajole 4000+ atheists in to doing a 5 minute “mindfulness meditation” akin to certain Buddhists practices. And rather effortlessly,…
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“I’ll have a large coke — no ice…”
… a statement we’ve all heard at some point across this fat and spoiled continent, most likely in a fast food joint. This past weekend, while out for brunch (see “Stuff white people like” www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.com), ‘Mother Nature’ /aka Gaia /aka ‘The Goddess’TM, etc. came calling, and off to the ‘lieu’ we went (I know how…
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Movement and Shift
(June 16 2010) Staring out the window at the tonal sky, glass in hand… Waiting for that wrinkle to once again manifest; A pinching of senses; funneled through a thick-glassed bottom; Modern nostalgia loops behind me, While the wind whistles through the joint and tousles the curtains… Too bright yet to fire up the…
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“It is what it is”… or is it…??
Some things hit one’s proverbial RADAR with the force of an Atom bomb — or a silvery disk, traveling at impossible speeds; the inhabitants of which grinning wildly while tipping back fizzy, intergalactic potions in a reckless fashion. Either illustration works, for both serve to convey a profound occurrence or event that is unmistakably real.…
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Decisions…
I woke up to the sound of coin-sized raindrops bouncing off of the large skylight over my bed. It’s odd how something so loud and aggressive-sounding can actually promote a sense of calm? Sifting through emails, the invite to this year’s NXNE party at Joao Carvalho Mastering was among those that escaped my ‘trash can’.…