mushin no shin

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My gear sits piled up in the corner beneath a nearly five year accumulation of dust. It calls me, it cries out to me.
I need to write again. I’m almost there, I think I am at least. But not here, not in this apartment. I need the change of scene. this place is [...]

I usually try to stay out of the “Israel vs (Enemy D’Jour)” debates, because I recognize that fundamentally, the conflict is one of land ownership, and as such cannot be solved so long as we hold to the land-as-property paradigm under which our world still suffers. For one example of how a geolibertarian might solve [...]

Well, he seems to want to run, if the LP has the balls to nominate him.
Unfortunately I don’t think they do. The same weak kneed mouth breathers that passed on Aaron Russo because he was too extravagent will shit their pants over Stanhope. The mushbrains are already coming out against it in the comments here, [...]

So last night I saw the Actors’ Bridge show Faith/Doubt at the Darkhorse. (Aunt B, I would have said hi this time if I’d seen you — just too many people in that sold-out crowd!) Excellent show, it addressed a wide range of beliefs and lacks thereof — everything from the traditional big ones on [...]

So I needed to spell my grandmother’s maiden name. I thought I knew it, but wanted to make sure because it didn’t look right. So I started googling some family names to see if anything came up on old real estate documents, etc. Well, it seems I have a distant cousin working up an online [...]

I’m the first to admit that I’ve got ivory tower intellectual elitist tendencies. I’m working on it, really. But meanwhile you’ll understand that I find it both inexplicable and painfully embarrassing that almost everyone else in my family is an auto racing nut.
But I don’t just mean they gather ’round the tube to watch NASCAR [...]

Heh. This is sorta cool. It says my “real age” is 31.6 (in actuality I’ve seen the earth take 34.3 trips around the sun) — and it says I’m getting younger. Of course I might not be as tickled if the results came out the other way…
The funny part is, one of sensei’s long running [...]

…My soul is yearning.
One of the primary teachings of Buddhism is that the root of all suffering is desire and attachment. I am currently in a place where I desparately need to remember and apply this teaching. My soul quakes with a desire the likes of which it hasn’t felt in years; this desire goes [...]

Jackson has inspired me… so here goes…
100 Things About Me

I have a short attention span

So OK as I mentioned, this past Saturday I went out to see The Devil & Daniel Johnston out at the Belcourt, and well — wow.
The link tells you all about it so I won’t go too far into the detail, but basically Daniel Johnston is a musician, songwriter, and artist who’s been plugging away [...]