No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
— George Bernard Shaw
This quote will be at the top of my argumentation syllabus from here on. And, sadly, it probably won’t matter to anyone but me. Oh, well . . .
Archive for April, 2009
If A Tree Falls In The Forest . . .
Posted in Commentary on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Get Your Hands Off My Darjeeling
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Republicans, taxes, tea, tea party on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow I go to the post office to put a very large check into the mail made out to the IRS. Meanwhile, a bunch of Republicans are staging “tea party” demonstrations across the nation for lower taxes. (And isn’t their W-onder Boy the one who grossly increased the national debt, increased the size of government, [...]
Zen Riddle
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Zen Saying: All this world is in your own mind.
So does that mean that people who believe in life on other planets have multiple personality disorder?
Gaia Knocks
Posted in Poetry, tagged Brighid, Celts, Gaia, Nature, Stonehenge on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gaia knocks at the window.
I sit at my desk and stare into a screen of
chicken scratch letters on a snowy field.
The keys feel like river pebbles rubbed smooth from eons of erosion.
Beside me is a maple bowl turned by a local craftsman which holds my crystals –
Tree agate, Bloodstone, Selenite, Snowflake Obsidian,
Labradorite, Carnelian, Sodalite –
the [...]
Boyle-O-Rama
Posted in Commentary, tagged authenticity, Britain, celebrity, creativity, music, Paul Potts, Susan Boyle, talent on April 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If you don’t yet know who Susan Boyle is, crawl out from under your rock, go to Youtube, watch all seven minutes of her “Britain’s Got Talent” audition, then come back to this page and continue reading. A dowdy, 47-year-old, never-been-kissed Scottish woman has turned the entertainment world on its ear and elicited a genuine [...]
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