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Gary G Gach's Blog
August 26, 2009
- IN full regalia, Gus introduces his fancy dancing as "the oldest dances done on this continent ... oldies but goodies! Yeehaw!!!" 50+ years, w/ 3 or 4 broken toe bones, he's doing alright. Never mind that he & 7 or 8 Aztec dancers from Mexico in full costume & all the rest of us were not even permitted in for 2 hours. Someone had booked the Veterans' building long in ...
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August 25, 2009
- By the clean, clear stroke of a blade, a group of flowers in a bowl on a table in a room evokes a garden, the whole of nature, the continuity of life — — ¿more so than when growing wild in profusion? Other cuttings: the splicing of 2 perhaps unrelated images in cinema (or tv) wherein a 3rd image appears in the mind of the viewer, and more vividly; (a power with roots (as Jim ...
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August 25, 2009
- The future affects the past, which affects the present. The current McSweeneys (31) < http://tr.im/x53h > includes a form / format w/ resonance to blogging. BIJI * — — n o t e b o o k musingsanecdotesquotationsbelieve-it-or-not fictionsocial anthropologylegendslocal wisdomeveryday lifetravel narrativeromancecourt intriguesobjectsfood * Chinese: ziao-shuo, ...
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July 4, 2009
- i'm contemplatingmy american karma f r e e d o m & interdependence * * * deborah p kolodji writes:a crackle of fireworks the echo of dogs
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June 18, 2009
- THE WORLD IS AS WIDE AS THE HEART IS WIDE The other day, Rev. James R Willems gave me a book to read, Metaphysical Horror by brilliant Polish philiosopher, historian, theologian, political scientist, and literary critic Leszek Kolakowski. His is a rare voice speaking to the sheer possibility of our spiritual yearnings and religious beliefs in a world clearly stuck a philosophical ...
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June 6, 2009
- i walked into a bookstore & signed three copies of my new book last week in so doing i'd like to now offer 2 books to all in the red room who wish to partake for free, (please don't refuse), thanks to interesting, unforseen turns of events. here's the story ——————————— this week's release from penguin is a completely updated, thoroughly revised third edition of my ...
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May 28, 2009
- The 2nd edition of my Complete Idiot's Guide Understanding Buddhism will be pulped starting next week, which is also when the 3rd edition becomes public. No seam in chaos. Continual metamorphosis.
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March 21, 2009
- I N C U N A B U L A i don't wish to alarm you. this is just a report of last weekend. my talk on buddhism & poetry for cherry blossom festival (an ohigan howha) at venice hongwanji buddhist temple went well as did the haiku workshop the next day. (they'll print some of the haiku in their next newsletter.) i also attended the ohigan service on sunday, led by a great speaker i'd ...
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February 5, 2009
- Tricycle has published a short feature I wrote during the financial meltdown: I've posted a link to it at my Articles corner; next time you're in the neighborhood, stop by. Tell me what you think.
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December 28, 2008
December 18, 2008
- I've just entered my first post, Solstice :: Light In Darkness, to my new blog Where Buddha Meets Freud at Psychology Today. (Am not changing horses midstream, but will be posting there weekly, so please bookmark the site, and visit as often or as seldom as you wish.) S e a s o n ' s g r e e t i n g s
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December 14, 2008
- This week, I was interviewed for an hour Shaindel Beers on her podcast Translated By: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/onword/va/2008/12/11/translated-by-hosted-by-shaindel-beers- Her focus was Flowers of a Moment by Ko Un, but also dipped into Ten Thousand Lives (albeit, unprepared, hence my reading an earlier draft, etc), plus various and sundry
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December 5, 2008
- (Show of hands.) How many people have seen Adbusters? This is that magazine where all the ads look like ads until you stop and look closer and you discover they’re anti-ads ... like those billboards “liberated” by the Billboard Liberation Front. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one paid ad in an entire issue … which couldn't be said (for what it's worth) for many a nonprofit ...
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December 3, 2008
- i've been turning in 6-8,000 finished words a week since july the Day i turned in my final chapter, i couldn't just stop and stare at a wall all day so my momentum took me downtown where i immersed myself in the beginning of what proved to be a fascinating conference, happiness & its causes. for one thing, here i'd been writing about how psychology looks to our neurosis, and then once ...
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November 25, 2008
- yesterday, i finished the revision of my complete idiot's guide to buddhism (begun july). it will hit stands around june, meanwhile, here's a sidebar with fun facts about the brain, of possible interest [the last portion i find particularly so] : The human brain takes up 2% of the body's weight yet requires about 25% of its oxygen. The number of states the brain is capable ...
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