Posted in Thoughts on Aug 27th, 2006 No Comments »
Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart [...]
Posted in Misc, Stuff, Thoughts on Aug 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
Holy cow. This is fairly mind expanding. Fantastic news. From Scientific American, Today. – SCIENCE NEWS August 22, 2006 Colliding Clusters Shed Light on Dark Matter E-mail Print Link RSS del.icio.us Digg Image: NASA Click here to see movie For more than 70 years, astronomers, cosmologists and physicists have known that ordinary matter must be [...]
Posted in Politics, Thoughts on Aug 19th, 2006 1 Comment »
The other day I was reading an article in American Way, the corporate magazine that American Airlines stuffs into the little pouch on the back of the seat to numb your brain while they delay your flight. Anyway, it was a personal finance article talking about little quips of wisdom that some seemingly randomly chosen [...]
Posted in Politics, Thoughts on Aug 10th, 2006 5 Comments »
I’ve just passed through the Chunnel. Two other trains recently passed going the other direction on the neighbor track at such relative speed that I could only make out streaks of speed and sound. I’m writing this on the Eurostar train on my way from London to Brussels. My laptop is being fed by electricity [...]
Posted in Down syndrome, Family, Thoughts on Apr 6th, 2006 No Comments »
At the recent Easter Seals gala, a live auction was the highlight of the evening. We were all there, and since it was getting late and Reid and Ava were maxing out on all of the action, we decided to watch the first item on the block get sold – a white rocking horse – [...]
Posted in Politics, Thoughts on Mar 29th, 2006 4 Comments »
We’re at the Alamo today as part of our family vacation. The Alamo was both a Catholic mission and a military outpost. I find it fascinating that the Spanish combined religious fervor with military might to accomplish their expansionist foreign policy. Novel. And now here’s a picture of two lovely ladies with lettuce covering their [...]
Posted in Down syndrome, Thoughts on Mar 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
As Ava and I were leaving the Austin Children’s Museum today, I met a woman who told me about her good friend who is expecting a child with Down syndrome. We talked, I shared information with her to pass along, we talked some more. I asked her to tell her friend one thing from me: [...]
Posted in Thoughts on Mar 21st, 2006 1 Comment »
Interesting things expectations. Quite the dual-edged sword. On the one hand, without expectations for ourselves and for others our lives would likely drift without much direction. What is direction if not an expectation of arriving at a particular place? On the other hand, expecations come from within us. They don’t, by necessity, have anything to [...]