Welcome to my Online Home!

I'm enjoying my day of reflection and giving thanks! Here's some songs and clips that may put a smile on your face. They certainly do for me!

Hooray for Google Webmaster tools - found a sneaky broken link. In this post on men's health, I referenced this missing file for how to perform a testicular self exam. Check it out!

First off, here's the movie we watched last night while making bread and pizza with ingredients from the Anatoth garden, care of Zac Hackney (thanks Zac!).



In it is a section of a talk given by Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, author of "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" among others. Here is a longer clip of that talk I found. I feel lucky that any footage of him teaching exists, so I want to pass it on. This relates to my understanding of the concepts of "emptiness" and "dependent origination" in the Buddhist context.

Labels: zen

Someone once said that there are few things as powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Juan Mann (amazing name!) started something of a worldwide craze. FYI: international hugging day is coming up. I'll be in NYC. Looking forward to participating, if I can. Anyone want to play? It's a Saturday. :-)

Here's the initial video:



The Wikipedia entry, and the worldwide phenomenon:

A small collection of current great pranksters. Click around. Envision guerilla hilarity that expands consciousness of people...limited by the choice-maze defined by cultural norms and advertising. Walk all over the damn place, hither and thither.

Hopefully this'll infuse some creativity and fun into you...and perhaps give you a hankering for similar free awesome events in your area.

http://improveverywhere.com/
http://www.newmindspace.com/
http://www.cockeyed.com/pranks/prank.html
http://www.alltooflat.com/pranks/
http://www.cartsofbrooklyn.com/