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harrison-solow's picture
Aug.10.2012
"...and I was thinking of how we have been the source of sustenance and suffering to each other - and of all the pain and elation and fear and hiraeth - the evolutions and revolutions and progress and estrangement and bedrock of understanding and the falls from grace - the remorse, the essential,...
lisa-jey-davis's picture
Jul.18.2012
  I’m not often one to draw from celebrity news when I write, especially the unfortunate or heartbreaking scenarios of a-list celebrities that often play out in the public arena.  But I recently found myself reading an article on the painful and unhappy split of Tom Cruise and...
dale-estey's picture
Jul.17.2012
Although there are rumours (as yet, undisputed) that people who shop at WalMart are destined to go to hell, a WalMart Store actually made positive news recently. An abandoned WalMart in Texas - yes, Texas - has been turned into that country's largest single story library (as I said, it was Texas)....
dr-steve-mcswain's picture
Dec.09.2010
“All religions serve the purpose of reuniting the soul with God.” -- Paramahansa Yogananda (1893 – 1952)   I once read of a rabbi who corrected a young, arrogant student named Jacob who loved to make fun of Christians. He regarded Christians as ignorant and ill-informed and Christianity as an...
midge-raymond's picture
Aug.01.2009
Check out this recent post on Booksquare about quality control in electronic publishing — an interesting piece that raises concerns for readers and should raise concerns for publishers. I have to admit that of the few Kindle items I’ve read, I’ve had no complaints about quality — and as far as...
bro-smith-sgs's picture
Apr.02.2009
                                               Limitations of Speech  Much of what we say does not carry its burdened intent, nor does it unfold before us the intentions of those whose thoughts and feelings are metered, relying on time to penetrate what invisible barriers resists our feeble efforts...
bro-smith-sgs's picture
Mar.02.2009
(Note: This is geared for the Aquarian mind, and those who salute, “Mother Earth, Brother Sun and Sister Moon”)   In this segment I will discuss and expound the three voices of the world   Through observance we go out in the following ways:   The first way: is when we consider what everything...
bro-smith-sgs's picture
Feb.03.2009
As promised this is the follow-up to Jan 09 Blog.  If you have followed me throughout the past year, you will recall, that I spoke concerning various factors, which lend themselves to this dilemma. To recap, the parable of Achilles instructed us that we lend ourselves, just as the trees of Lebanon...
bro-smith-sgs's picture
Feb.03.2009
As promised this is the follow-up to Jan 09 Blog.  If you have followed me throughout the past year, you will recall, that I spoke concerning various factors, which lend themselves to this dilemma. To recap, the parable of Achilles instructed us that we lend ourselves, just as the trees of Lebanon...
edmund-jenks's picture
Jan.29.2009
Nightline, or ABC News Nightline is a late-night hard and soft news program broadcast by ABC in the United States. The program had its beginnings on November 8, 1979, just 4 days after the Iran hostage crisis started. ABC News president Roone Arledge felt the best way to compete against NBC's...