20 years ago today.

Remembering Tianamen Square.

Wikipedia article.

My chic little golfer.

I think she's the only one I know that could show up in a dress and with a purse for her first round of golf ever and pull it off. For the record she did great. :)

A day spent at Mt. St. Helens

Gosh I love living in the Northwest.

Fleet Foxes in a big room, from Blogotheque.

Superb.

The fragrance of a rose.

The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-tzu's dictum:

Those who know do not say;
Those who say do not know.

When the Master entered they asked him what the words meant.

Said the Master, "Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?"

All of them knew.
Then he said, "Put it into words."
All of them were silent.

Happy Birthday Mr. Rogers.

Thanks for being my neighbor.

This is incredible.

What happens when you take random samplings from around Youtube and mix them together? It's a form of sampling, but he's pulling it all together from a bunch of unknowns, instrument by instrument, voice by voice and the result is exceedingly awesome. I encourage you to watch, wait for at least 43 seconds in.

1999. No comment.

Time's article from 1999.

St. Valentine Sushi Decadance

Had a wonderful meal at Zilla Sake for Valentine's day. I would highly recommend it.

How then shall we live?

"People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them." ~ The Buddah

In a consumer society how much of our time, energy and lives are tied to the lie that at some point in the distant future we will arrive and be happy through the ownership of more stuff?

"The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything." ~ Fight Club

As the saying goes 'time is money' and when given the choice most people gladly trade their time, which is not seen as valuable, for more money. The problem is that the stuff of live can only be cultivated in the fertile quiet soil of a soul that has time to rest. We look to the marketplace for something that feels like happiness and contentment rather than just stopping. We are scared of finding out just how wasted our time and consequently our lives really are.

"The real revolutionary is the one who has nothing to lose." ~ MLK

Fear is the final excuse. Usually that fear is rooted ultimately in the unknown and death. The irony is that the one thing that we can be sure of in life is that from the day we are born we are
dead. It is only a matter of time. Sometimes people ask one another, "If you knew you were going to die tomorrow what would you do with your last 24 hours?"

I would pose the same question. Knowing that you are going to die in the next 80 years, how then should you live?

"You cannot serve both God and money." ~ Jesus

Jesus was the perfect human and yet from the Gospel accounts he possessed nothing. Do we honestly think that we have stumbled upon something Jesus didn't know?