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| The Buddha's Last Instruction by Mary Oliver
"Make of yourself a light" said the Buddha, before he died. I think of this every morning as the east begins to tear off its many clouds of darkness, to send up the first signal-a white fan streaked with pink and violet, even green. An old man, he lay down between two sala trees, and he might have said anything, knowing it was his final hour. The light burns upward, it thickens and settles over the fields. Around him, the villagers gathered and stretched forward to listen. Even before the sun itself hangs, disattached, in the blue air, I am touched everywhere by its ocean of yellow waves. No doubt he thought of everything that had happened in his difficult life. And then I feel the sun itself as it blazes over the hills, like a million flowers on fire- clearly I'm not needed, yet I feel myself turning into something of inexplicable value. Slowly, beneath the branches, he raised his head. He looked into the faces of that frightened crowd. | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment  |
| "This is a gift from the Iraqis! This is a farewell kiss, you dog! This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq!"
--Iraqi Reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi as he threw his shoes at President George W. Bush
I'm almost never for physical assault, even in the case of someone I find so despicable as President Bush, but I can't say I disagree with this guy's sentiments... | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment  |
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The trick is finding folks in the "Marriage Potential" area but not endlessly looking for folks in the "Null Set" area.
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| I gotta say...I thought McCain was funnier. Doesn't change my vote or anything, but there could certainly be worse candidates running against Barack.
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| A dramatic reading of a transcript of a town meeting for Wasilla, Alaska. This is what Sarah Palin was doing a scant 12 years ago.
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| This is me at ACL collecting recyclables for a t-shirt. I made it.
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