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Neglecting this blog

It is always a delicate balance, like breathing. You can’t always be breathing out, you can’t always be breathing in. If the two halves of the rhythm don’t alternate smoothly, you’ve got problems. Similarly, you’ve got to keep a balance between absorbing new material (whether by reading or other experience) and expressing what you know. [...]

Too much news

“The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.” Wordsworth wrote that 200 years ago, before telegraph, telephone, radio, television, or fax machines, let alone PCs, internet and PDAs. He should see us now! I awoke this morning dissatisfied, aware that once again I had allowed myself to shallow [...]

Orbs at a post-election rally

Digital cameras have certainly revolutionized the orb-chasing business. This from an email via a friend, who had received it from a friend who had gone to the election night Obama rally in Grant Park in Chicago. There were more photos but I have limited the number to three (and turned them from bitmaps to JPEGs) [...]

Our election seen from Asia

When a blond American traveler wears an Obama sticker--

Marilyn Ferguson, New Age Author, Dies at 70

Marilyn Ferguson, whose 1980 book “The Aquarian Conspiracy” became a bible of the New Age movement, died on Oct. 19 at her home in Banning, Calif.