G as in Good H as in Happy

Open-hearted Moments

July 3 and 4th, 2008

Moments of presence, one to one, are of great value, and rarer than they need to be. Sometimes crisis and fatigue make us free to seize them.

 

Found here via ChicagoBoyz.

Reframing a "Cause"

May 29, 2008

"Liberal" and "conservative" rhetoric often go on the rocks when the supporters of a "cause" demand not only agreement with facts and feelings, but frame and implications. This video shows Esther Hicks, who speaks in public purportedly on behalf of a group of sages known as "Abraham," honoring the power of vision and inspiration of Martin Luther King, Jr., without being backed into any corners.

Eloquent.

Sane.

A Beggar at the Train Station

 

The Kingdom of Heaven among us might be a Purloined Letter, lying on the surface, in an unexpected place. Singing.

The Opposite of a Poverty Mentality

April 4, 2008

Rod Dreher notes this story from the Dallas Advocate, and Sudan, and the Central Market parking lot.

For Priscilla and Joseph, the necessary money may as well have fallen from the sky.

the great secret

December 9, 2007

Yo!

Since The Anchoress' custodial image of the spiral chambered nautilus -- or, in some glorious galaxy far far away, of the yo-yo string -- doesn't click-to-enlarge:

Click to enlarge...

Tom Wolfe, Mental Marzipan with the Lights On

May 19, 2006

Irony so rich, you can taste it. It tastes like marzipan.

Mots as bon as any now being offered. Who knew there is a Jefferson Lecture?

[In the 1960's] communes inevitably turned religious thanks to the hallucinations...some head--short for acid head--would end up in the middle of Broadway, one of San Francisco's main drags, sitting cross-legged in the Lotus position, looking about, wide eyes glistening with beatification, shouting, "I'm in the pudding and I've met the manager! I'm in the pudding and I've met the manager!" Seldom had so many gone so far to feel aloof from the middle class.

But I was wrong....

Happiness is Not a Bad Word

In the aftermath of Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble announcing he will moderate comments to eliminate heavily negative influences,

Mauritius, Playground in Economics

March 16, 2006

An economics blog with general interest features from an island once known to most Americans only as a game-board question.

We'll be taking a look at Fazeer Sheik Rahim. It's not clear whether "Sheik" is religious, or a generic honorific for a teacher rather like "Sensei" in Japan. One world now, and a darn interesting one.

Prickly, Barefoot, Lounging in the Chez

March 14, 2006

Dilys too is prickly, on all kinds of occasions. But the haunting notes of the cosmic ditty, How Can You Talk to Them if They Won't Make Sense [ed.: Lost it in the comments, dintcha...?], segueing into How Can You Miss Them if They Won't Go Away, waft from several village bandstands today.

Brains washed daily courtesy of Instapundit, whose amusement at the foolishness of his fellow man springs ever green. An inspiration.

Piet Hein

So many intriguing people, some with particularly good sense.

THE ROAD TO WISDOM
The road to wisdom? - Well, it's plain
And simple to express...

--Piet Hein

Via commenter at Marginal Revolution