Meditations – On an early spring afternoon along the stream that runs along the periphery of the town, a huge, smooth shelf of a cloud juts out from halfway up…
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Martin LeFevre
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It’s amazingly quiet at the upper end of the huge municipal park, furthest from the city center but still in town. A spot overlooking the stream is unoccupied, and I…
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Like many people, I’ve been gobsmacked by the story about the man in Florida who was swallowed by a sinkhole as he slept in his bed. As of this writing…
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As people who have endured the most extreme forms of migraines know, they can produce an unfathomable, almost unendurable pain. Having suffered from them since I was 15 years old,…
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Many years ago a Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Romanenko, expressed the American ‘work ethic’ when he was asked about the beauty of the earth from space. He said, “Basically you work.”
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Even for people adept at the art of methodless meditation, ‘the beginner’s mind’ can have the connotation of someone just learning how to meditate, a novice. It can imply someone…
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An animated CNN announcer, echoing the conventional view, pronounced the mind-boggling overlap of a once in a hundred years meteor strike in Russia, which injured hundreds of people, and a…
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If you listened carefully to President Obama’s laundry list of policy pronouncements in his State of the Union address, you heard the forced enthusiasm of a mediocre man. The policies…