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Cheerful Birthday

2009-03-30T10:52:00.010-04:00

I began practicing weekly with the Shambhala Meditation Group of Buffalo during the fall of 2007 after living back in Buffalo a year and a half. I first became involved with Shambhala meditation seventeen years ago during a transition year upon turning forty.I was drawn to the big questions my entire life. My young sister Jane died suddenly when I was six, an event that linked me to a need to

Not Famous

2009-02-08T23:29:00.008-05:00

Someone I once knew wrote a paper called The Psychology of Fame. I find myself pondering a similar question. What do they have that I don't? Most people live out their lives with no remarkable encounters with anything resembling fame, fortune or notoriety, but the more one travels and lives in cities, the greater is the chance of seeing or encountering the world of well-known others.Moving around

Good Medicine

2009-02-07T08:58:00.004-05:00

We each have our own path to follow. A faithful listener to Gary Null's radio show, I take in his nutritional advice and practice as much as I can. The trouble is I'm not ready to go all the way....can't really afford all the supplements he would recommend. I'm not ready to give up coffee or wine. I eat some meat and some junk. I tend to be moderate, but his view is you have to go all the way to

Nostalgia

2009-02-06T22:07:00.003-05:00

I guess nostalgia is the mark of a someone with a history to reflect upon. I went to see the movie, Milk. Seeing my old neighborhood on the big screen prompted a lot of conversations and flashbacks to the 1970s in San Francisco. I notice this nostalgia turning up in other people's blogs. Jane shared her memories of 33 Linda Street, a building that I lived in when Harvey Milk was shot.I arrived

Drifting Back

2008-12-14T13:07:00.005-05:00

Parallel Drift...Moving here and there...not necessarily ascending, gaining, improving. My attention drawn toward blogging on the election, enjoying the warmth of the summer, a month in Vermont, packing and relocating to a new home.Beyond all that now. Winter solstice is approaching. The last full moon of 2008 has ripened. The aluminum sky of Buffalo winter has arrived. A string of tiny blue

Well Enough

2008-05-09T11:46:00.000-04:00