Monthly Archives: February 2004
Songs to download while feeding the baby
Feeding the baby on Sunday morning early. Kids downstairs watching Scooby-Do. Exploring the wonderful confusing world of online (free legal) electronica downloads. I started at my familiar Acid Planet and eventually found my way to Electronic Scene. I found two … Continue reading
Meaty Beats
I had occasion to DJ a dance for the Junior High Kids at our Church last week. It’s getting decidedly harder to put together three hours of Church-acceptable dance music nowadays. Of the top ten songs in the country right … Continue reading
Ash Wednesday
Every year for the past seven or so years I have read T.S. Eliot’s poem Ash Wednesday on this day. Each year I take a little bit more of this poem into my heart. It’s too long to post the … Continue reading
Abyss
“Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.” — Hal Holbrook, Wall Street While praying this morning for a man … Continue reading
The spiritual weapon of self-purification, intangible as it seems, is the most potent means of revolutionizing one’s environment and loosening the external shackles. It works subtly and invisibly; it is an intense process though it might often seem a weary … Continue reading
Kitsch Creep Update
With the help of a little glue, two new birds now call the trees in our front yard home. They look happy.
Give it up. Get Messy.
The world is just a set of false impressions. Give them up. Give up the illusion. Give up the world. And live freely. -Ashtavakra Gita 9:8 This weekend the whole family went for walk in the woods at a nearby … Continue reading
Ashes. We all fall down.
Sometimes you look across the table and don’t like the person you’re sitting with. Sometimes you look in the mirror and don’t like the person you’re sitting with. Sometimes it looks as if you won’t like anybody for a while. … Continue reading
Kiss the Cook
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man can not live without cooks. He may live without books, … Continue reading
I Feel Ya
A recent UK study shows that identifying with the pain of a loved one triggers the pain centers in one’s own brain. This experiment supports the hypothesis that empathy, a component of alturistic love, has a neurological basis and gets … Continue reading
The Vision Of Men Who See
“Every Town a Home Town” Every town our home town, Every man a kinsman. Good and evil do not come from others. Pain and relief of pain come of themselves. Dying is nothing new. We do not rejoice that life … Continue reading
Another Art Guy
David Mach makes art out of coathangers and matches and tires. Amazing stuff. It’s not so much the recycling mixed with art, which is cool, but the infinite patience it must have taken to construct meticulously detailed sculptures out of … Continue reading
Happy for Hung
“I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.” I’m happy for William Hung. Good for him. Enjoy your fifteen minutes, William.
Rumor? What Rumor?
I won’t spread rumors. Not even ones that my Austin insider lawyer in-law told me she heard from six different credible sources. In fact the whole internet is full of people who aren’t spreading rumors. That’s how I heard of … Continue reading
That’s the spirit, Gramma!
The other day I went out to the mail box and there was a little yellow bird perched there. A plastic bird. Glued there. Yesterday I drove home and there were new bluebonnets in the planters out by our curb. … Continue reading