November 2008
I am out the door, off to Birken Forest Monastery (www.birken.ca) near Kamloops for an 8-day silent meditation retreat -- yahooo! (oops, shhhhhh). Preparing for what may come next...maybe this... www.bclocalnews.com/surrey_a...2174.html or who knows, who knows, what the next moment brings. Best to be ready. |
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Mudskippers are completely amphibious fish, uniquely adapted to intertidal habitats (like mud flats and mangrove swamps). Unlike most fish in such habitats, which survive the retreat of the tide by hiding under wet seaweed or in tidal pools, mudskippers "walk" about on the mudflats, "fly" over them, conduct flashy mating rituals, and feast on the intertidal banquet of crabs, insects and protozoans. They pull their protuberant eyes completely under their skin now and again, to keep them moistened. |
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I just got wind yesterday that the Earth Day Vancouver Celebration in Jericho Park has been canned...guess Evergreen's main "partners", Toyota and Starbucks, aren't feeling especially generous these days. Well now I am officially and thoroughly unemployed!
Back to the roots -- time to start growing our own potatoes and makin' our own fun. Bring it on! |
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Six Feet Under is such an amazing series. It ebbs and flows from episode to episode, some episodes are only good while others are mindblowing. But it's breadth of the thing that really blows me away...how someone took the care to draw out this family portrait in such detail, and it just keeps expanding inward and outward, becoming more paradoxical and complex as it goes along. |
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My dad carried the white-belt-and-shoes gene: the stamp of the salesman. He passed it on to my brother and me. |
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Christmas is the very best time of year to be Jewish. I get to look at all the crazyass psycho-family pressures and emotional blackmailing and consumer frenzy and go, hm. Those crazy Christians are at it again. |
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