A Mindful Life

I’m gonna sit right down and write myself a letterAnd make believe it came from youI’m gonna write words, oh, so sweetThey’re gonna knock me off my feetA lotta kisses on the bottom, I’ll be glad I’ve got ‘em… –by Joe Young Have you ever yearned to hear certain words? Have you wished someone would [...]

Ah, the joy of following link to link on the web… it leads to some intriguing sites. An excerpt from one (can be found in the FAQ): Why should I spend time reading your opinions when I could be doingÂ…? Why arenÂ’t you? Why arenÂ’t you doing what you would rather be doing? Why arenÂ’t [...]

Keeping a journal served to make me feel more real, in the same way that a mirror does. An admiration. It provided me with a reassuringly structured, narrative meta-self that cohered and made sense. It relieved the claustrophobia, the loneliness, of simply experiencing myself. It projected me outward, as in projectile vomiting, as in being [...]

This dual relationship I have with the US mirrors the duality of the US itself. This duality exists in the US’s reverence for freedom, democracy and human rights, and its denial and violation of such values when it comes to Muslims, the poor, women and peasants in the “Third World.” It exists in my neighbor’s [...]

I’ve put together a few links of reading and writing resources that I’ve found interesting or useful. They are also installed in the side bar, but I wanted to introduce these resources directly. For Readers All Consuming AllReaders.com Arts & Letters Daily Bookmarks Magazine Bookpage.com Bookslut Bookspot Chicklit: For Women Who Love Words Children’s Literature [...]

Oh, I know that’s trite. Trite, but true. I belong to an Internet community called Orkut. When I learned we were moving to this area, I joined some communities, such as the South Bay Area community, and sent a message, a call for information. I was open to whatever advice people wanted to give a [...]

A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other people, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the full measure I have received and am still receiving. –Albert Einstein

I’ve made a slight change in the feedback process here. There are a number of reasons, one of them being to pare down comment spam (the Blacklist doesn’t always work). Another is my imminent return to full-time work, which will reduce the amount of time available for reading, keeping track of, and responding to comments [...]

A bit of seafood– dinner on the waterfront… humans pay for this! “Seagull’s Starfish Feast” by Helen Finn ©2003 / ephotograph