December 2010
51 posts
Dec 30th
3 tags
Dec 28th
1 note
8 tags
Teddy Roosevelt, Child at Heart
From The Firelight Fairy Book, a book of original fairytales by Henry Beston, author of The Outermost House. I was very surprised at who wrote the introduction. Read on… The forward is as follows: THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON, September 7. 1922 DEAR HENRY:– “Grown-ups” arrogate entirely too much to themselves. I know this is so. I discovered it for a...
Dec 28th
1 note
2 tags
“It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day’s journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed” Herodotus on the Persian postal system I was talking with a friend today about...
Dec 27th
Dec 27th
Dec 26th
1 note
1 tag
Dec 26th
2 tags
Today I Learned How to be Cold
I slipped quietly out the back door and down the icy staircase, and I jogged out into the snow dusted fields. The ground out there was hard and crumbly. I did not put on a hat or gloves, and as I was running into the wind I knew that the way back would be warmer. I was only wearing leggings and a thin coat, and it was 20F, but somehow I wasn’t cold at all. I felt my ears burning, and held my...
Dec 25th
2 notes
“You ask why I make my home in the mountain forest, and I smile, and am...”
– Li Po (701 - 762)
Dec 24th
426 notes
Dec 23rd
2 tags
Dec 23rd
Dec 21st
3 tags
Dec 21st
1 note
Dec 21st
4 tags
ListenHere’s a song that’s like the cold...
Dec 19th
6 tags
http://goo.gl/Bwmbj Compilation of music that I’m sending out to friends for christmas. Includes one song I recorded today on my Native American Flute. Artist list also includes: Simon and Garfunkle Robby Basho Boards of Canada Four Tet Gordon Hempton Animal Collective Chris Clark µ-Ziq I hope y’all enjoy it
Dec 18th
5 tags
Cycle I
I sometimes have ideas that I cannot recreate in the way they appear in my mind. Many times, they have to do with drawing, an animation, or a video. I’ll attempt to recreate one of them in writing here. Maybe that is the answer: Use the tools that I do have. A grain of rice is waving in the wind, surrounded by thousands of others, in a great field. There is a wind sweeping across the field, and...
Dec 17th
1 note
6 tags
Dec 16th
1 note
7 tags
Dec 16th
1 note
What is the most important lesson you have learned from having spent 40 years in the Himalayas? This important lesson is that each being has within himself or herself a treasure that is just waiting to be put to good use … but that life is also short. -Matthieu Ricard
Dec 15th
The Sun, Out There
I sit in a room and watch the light change. It fades from the morning blue, to a kind of whiteness. As the sun continues its arch, the various shadows come out, and slide along the floor towards my feet. I’m in no hurry, and let them cover me. If shadows had a feel, these would be drapes of velvet. Soon, it is night again. Once the sun has gone in another arch, it is important to think about...
Dec 15th
11 tags
Miyamoto's World
Some pieces pulled from Master of Play, a New Yorker article on Shigeru Miyamoto, the guy who created Mario and Zelda “When Shigeru Miyamoto was a child, he didn’t really have any toys, so he made his own, out of wood and string. He put on performances with homemade puppets and made cartoon flip-books. He pretended that there were magical realms hidden behind the sliding shoji screens...
Dec 14th
Dec 14th
Dec 14th
2 notes
Dec 14th
8 tags
Dec 14th
3 tags
Dec 12th
6 tags
Dec 12th
4 tags
ListenAsha Bhosle • In Aankhon ki Masti
Dec 11th
5 tags
Dec 11th
4 tags
I see space But what is this space? A relationship
Dec 11th
Dec 11th
4 tags
Dec 11th
7 tags
Dec 11th
5 notes
2 tags
It is wonderful to chew food thoroughly
Dec 11th
Dec 10th
3 notes
4 tags
Ancient Music
Ancient Free, commercial free (donation supported!) live stream of some really awesome Medieval classical music. Perfect for the holiday season!
Dec 9th
3 notes
Dec 8th
Dec 8th
3 tags
Dec 8th
4 tags
Dec 7th
6 tags
It has become cold in the evenings now. My summer water bottle has been replaced by a thermos full of tea or hot water. There are beautiful patterns of ice on the car windshields in the morning. There is steam that arises from the breath during exhalation. In order to be happy in the cold, it is wonderful to be closer to those around you. It is important to hug and hold, and tell each other...
Dec 7th
2 notes
A rock, A fish, A tree, A leaf, A stream, A sound… Peace
Dec 4th
Dec 3rd
Dec 3rd
Dec 3rd
Dec 3rd
Dec 3rd
Dec 2nd
Dec 1st