confession
November 10, 2009
- As I've been traveling around the country, talking about the book and meeting readers, the number one question I hear is, "How much does Maya remember from your trip?"Not "What does she remember from your trip?" or "Who does she remember from your trip?" but "How much?"I find this a curious question, since I can't imagine what difference the quantity of a ...
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August 11, 2009
- I have a dark, shameful secret.At one point, for more than fifteen years, I worked as a... a... professional journalist. Not that I expect to receive an invitation from Jerry Springer's people anytime soon. Compared with their impressive collection of the dysfunctional, the disturbed and the deranged, my shame is too tame, too banal. It's also slightly less conducive to producing offspring with ...
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June 23, 2009
- I confess: I am a terminal, untreatable catastrophist. The slightest setback, the oddest little twinge in my heart, a bump where there should be one, and my fears expand and billow up like a zeppelin (in this case, the Hindenberg).It might be brain chemistry or the fact that my childhood was, er, less than a happy one. I'll let the behaviorists hash that out with Steven Pinker. Whatever ...
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June 18, 2009
- Honor the Name What is proper? What is holy, right, and for the good of us all? Who gives us the approval to name or unveil the darkness for clarity in getting others to see more light? Who can we talk to about the darkness? We can first talk to God. The Priest has been the safe keeper of listening to our sins and given permission for absolution through Divine Communion ...
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May 2, 2009
- Into the Mouth of MadnessThesis: Without the spark of enlightenment, reason fails to adequately see and thus we enter gropingly, into the ‘Mouth of Madness.’ IntroductionSimilar to Toto, who chose to look behind the curtain of Oz, the Greeks began to seek beyond their mythology, the penchant motives and antics of their Gods. Some inquisitors began to look beyond them and began to observe the ...
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May 2, 2009
- Into the Mouth of MadnessThesis: Without the spark of enlightenment, reason fails to adequately see and thus we enter gropingly, into the ‘Mouth of Madness.’ IntroductionSimilar to Toto, who chose to look behind the curtain of Oz, the Greeks began to seek beyond their mythology, the penchant motives and antics of their Gods. Some inquisitors began to look beyond them and began to observe the ...
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April 28, 2009
- http://thepeepdiaries.com Peep is not only recession proof, like the movies and beer, it actually benefits from the recession. Here are the reasons why. 1) More time on social networks. We believe, rightly and wrongly and the jury is still out on this, that our social network can help us get a job. So, increasingly, the first thing we do when we get laid off is let everyone on FB, LinkedIn, etc. ...
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April 2, 2009
- Limitations of Speech Much of what we say does not carry its burdened intent, nor does it unfold before us the intentions of those whose thoughts and feelings are metered, relying on time to penetrate what invisible barriers resists our feeble efforts.Undoubtedly there is some advantage in a blind man's ...
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March 2, 2009
- (Note: This is geared for the Aquarian mind, and those who salute, “Mother Earth, Brother Sun and Sister Moon”) In this segment I will discuss and expound the three voices of the world Through observance we go out in the following ways: The first way: is when we consider what everything created is in itself, and find all things are vanity because, just as each creature comes into being ...
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February 2, 2009
- As promised this is the follow-up to Jan 09 Blog. If you have followed me throughout the past year, you will recall, that I spoke concerning various factors, which lend themselves to this dilemma. To recap, the parable of Achilles instructed us that we lend ourselves, just as the trees of Lebanon spoke to one another, citing, that the very limbs they surrender, become the ax handles, which will ...
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