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Songs That Made Me Cry #2

October 19, 2007   |   Leave a reply

Dancing in the Dark Bruce Springsteen dancing-in-the-dark.mp3 I was sitting outside the Tam O’Shanter Lounge in my cab, waiting for last call to see who might stumble out too drunk to drive. Cabbie was one of my first post-high school jobs and the best career alternative I could think of at the time. It was late August, about a zillion... READ MORE

Songs That Made Me Cry #1

October 18, 2007   |   2 Comments

Blue Skies The Allman Brothers blue-skies.mp3 My boyfriend and I were lying on the floor listening to music, smoking pot, waiting for the pizza delivery guy. I think I was about 18 years old. He wanted me to listen to “Blue Skies” by the Allman Brothers. Sure, I thought. Whatever. I like music. He cued it up and when it... READ MORE

Times-Picayune Article About Silence

October 16, 2007   |   Leave a reply

A wonderful, non-denominational piece by Chris Bynum about different ways to connect with silence. What a daring thing to write about anywhere, but especially in the New Orleans daily paper. I was interviewed for it and am quoted at the end.

Beliefnet Videos

October 16, 2007   |   Leave a reply

Some months ago, Beliefnet taped me giving a few short (5 mins) talks on various topics: Becoming Fearless Loving Yourself Spiritual Discipline Healing a Broken Heart What is Meditation?

Melancholy Music

October 15, 2007   |   10 Comments

Yesterday, Duncan and I were talking about what qualified a song as melancholy. Melancholy is not quite sadness. It seems to also include an element of longing, even of sweetness. As an enneagram 4, I feel eminently qualified to compose a melancholy playlist. (For more about the enneagram–and my obsessive interest in it, click here.) And so I did, and... READ MORE

Best Advice. Ever.

October 12, 2007   |   2 Comments

What I was told when I e-mailed a friend with a question about some reading he suggested: Yes, you understand the reading instructions clearly. Go slow, absorb, contemplate, be confused, discover enlightenment. Pretty much applicable in all situations.

6 Billion Trillion Miles of Emptiness: "This is incredibly important for something where there is nothing to it," says retired NASA astronomer

October 5, 2007   |   2 Comments

Source Associated Press Friday, August 24, 2007 WASHINGTON — Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That’s got them scratching their heads about what’s just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That’s an... READ MORE

Singing Sweet Songs in Darkness

October 5, 2007   |   2 Comments

The lonely child who travels through The fearful waste and desolate fields, And listens to their barren tune, Greets as an unknown and best friend The terror in him, and he sings In darkness all the sweetest songs. —Chögyam Trungpa from “The Silent Song of Loneliness” in Mudra: Early Poems and Songs Relationships are lonely. Even good ones. My relationship... READ MORE

ocean of dharma

October 1, 2007   |   Leave a reply

got this today from ocean of dharma which delivers a quote a day from Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. i received tremendous heart from these words and hope you will too. TO SUBSCRIBE visit following link: http://OceanofDharma.com [Chogyam Trungpa escaped from Tibet in 1959, having witnessed extensive destruction and death when the communist Chinese took over the country. He reflected on this... READ MORE

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