(When socializing it is important to remember that other people are feeling tortured too) A friend posted this interesting link on FB about research studies that show how meditation alters brain activity: “The study investigated the effects of a day of intensive mindfulness practice in a group of experienced meditators, compared to a group of […]
As the new year dawns, I’m in my usual mode of hunkering down, avoiding the drunken subway scene and forced gaiety that is NYE in NYC — and just TRY and get a cab or car service there and back without it being a royal pain. So either there’s something romantic going on at home, […]
Ohmy, just listened to a GREAT Fela Kuti program on KCR (NYC). Just what the doctor ordered. I am thankful, personally, and on behalf of all humans, for PEOPLE LIKE KELA FUTI ! If you want to start a revolution, play Fela Kuti records! (I know the idea of listening to albums in the “concept” […]
This post is dedicated to Priscilla, who belonged to the cat colony I help feed, and her primary caretaker, Victoria. Priscilla was hit by a car on Friday night. So sad, she was so shy, painfully, and I mentioned here before that I’d felt a bit bad for not continuing to make the extra effort […]
(Please sign this anti-fracking petition for New York, the pressure has to be kept up. THANK YOU!) I am going to try to start a regular gratitude practice. I’ve done it mentally before as a nightly practice, and even, once started a list, but it was hand-written and once there was no more room on […]
Happy Birthday, Albert Camus! 100 years old today…a centenarian. I memorized this phrase from The Plague, 1947, years ago for some reason, (its tautological veracity, I suppose): “There is a terrible cogency in the self-evident”, and well there is, isn’t there? You can read the book free online here! Given its meditations on mortality and […]
