A Nancy-send-off
Until you shall return, I wish you peaceful travels Nancy. Happy India!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Watch out India! Here she comes...
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Memory
Witnessing my mom losing her memory. When she no longer recognizes me, will I still exist? Will she? How fleeting life seems to be.
The things we really need.....
The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity. We have to be able to relax the psychic and spiritual cramp which knots us in the painful, vulnerable, helpless “I” that is all we know as ourselves. Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, p.204
... it's 4:07 UTC, that's Coordinated Universal Time -- somebody didn't put their letters in the correct "acronymal" order, did they? That translates to 20:07 Pacific. I am sitting in the control room of the Hanford LIGO detector but I can tell you, I am not in control... It's my last shift as a "Science Monitor". All LIGO scientists are asked to come to one of the two US detectors at some point and do some helping out with the real deal. I chose the WA state desert over the Louisiana swamp land where our second US detector is located -- I went for half-life Hefeweizen rather than Carnival Jambalaya. One can wash down a plutonium pizza with that Hefeweizen; the owner of the local "Atomic Brew Pub" has quite a sense of humor. Do you know about Hanford's nuclear past and present? Nagasaki's plutonium came from about 10 miles down the road from where I am sitting right now and the desert landscape these days is littered with power p...
Fasting and praying now. Fasting to purify the body and mind and praying for the spirit. Grateful for this day, even with the cold damp weather. Spring will be welcome when it comes this year. Parkinsons is a dreadful disease, I am sure it is caused by some exposure in the environment although no one seems to know for sure....
Reincarnation??? What do you think??
"The idea of reincarnation is a fanciful way of addressing unlived life. If we take it literally, it seems to suggest that we are reborn through time as different people or even animals. This is the ego's attachment to an identify. Literalism is always a form of idolatry, and the idol is usually our own ego. The ego can't imagine its transformation and so liberalizes it. ... Understood psychologically, reincarnation refers to the redemption of our unlived life, the necessity of addressing all our potentials before we can realize God(unity). There are thousands of potentials within, all of which are calling simultaneously be expressed and experienced. This is the meaning of reincarnation for the modern person. All of our potentials want to be incarnated, to be lived out before our journey back to wholeness is complete. All of them are vying for attention simultaneously. Reincarnation is not for another time, another place, another existence-it is now. U...
Who is Nella Evets (Veets)?
"For those of you who don't know Nella Evets(Veets) let me introduce myself.....I am Nella Evets,which is Steve Allen spelled backwards. I learned how to say Steve Allen Backwards by listening to the original Steve Allen on tape. I had a tape recorder that had a track selector that allowed me to play tapes backward. I focused mainly on people whose last names were Allen; primarily famous people of the 30's, 40's, 50's, and 60's. Such as; Nella Derf, Nella Eicarg, Nella Xer, Nella Lem, Nella Ydoow, and so on. If you are wondering if I am related to the original Steve Allen, I am not. Originally my backwards name was Nella Nnelg, but at the end of 2000 I changed it to Nella Evets in honor and memory of the original Steve Allen. I was fortunate enough to know Steve Allen. He introduced me to videos of the golden age of television, late 40's and early 50's. KTL (channel 5) went on the air in 1947 in Los Angeles, the oldest TV stati...
Childhood song
This is a fun little song I grew up with. Mind you it's in Korean, but I wanted to share a bit of my childhood and childhood of many Koreans. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santoki The wikipedia site has translations and transliteration. First Verse: 산토끼 토끼야 어디를 가느냐 깡총깡총 뛰면서 어디를 가느냐 Second Verse: 산고개 고개를 나혼자 넘어서 토실토실 알밤을 주워서 올테야
Spirituality ....
True spirituality lies in finding out one’s own mistakes and correcting them. ~ Satya Sai Baba
Two universal and prime paths of transformation have always been available to every human being God has created: great love and great suffering. Only love and suffering are strong enough to break down our usual ego defenses, crush our dualistic thinking, and open us up to Mystery. They, like nothing else, exude the mysterious chemistry that can transmute us from a fear-based life to a love-based life. “Opening the Door: Great Suffering and Great Love” from The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See