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Posted by chris on Tuesday, September 18 @ 09:51:30 PDT (0 reads)
Topic Books
| The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami is the sort of novel that changes the life on anyone who reads it. I am so happy that there are many many more books to read by him after I finally finish this one.
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Normalish
Posted by chris on Thursday, September 13 @ 15:02:49 PDT (1 reads)
Topic D.C.
| | I just drove out to Target on rt 1. The car's batts were acting funny, so I wanted to get a charge on, so I went to Target so that I could buy a can opener and some laundry detergernt and dishwashing machine liquid.
I didn't see the damage to the Pentagon. What side was it on? Anyway, aside from the a little more intensity with regards the police presence, all the roads are open and I could even travel up Independence back to the pad.
Its very weird to see it heal at least superficially so darn quickly. There are roads closed off, but I don't see the National Guard or anything.
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Clear Light Prayer
Posted by chris on Thursday, September 13 @ 08:09:06 PDT (3 reads)
Topic Spirit
| Now I am experiencing the Clear Light of Perfected Reality. Nothing is happening, nothing ever has happened or ever will happen. My present sense of self, the voyager, is in reality the Void itself, having no qualities or characteristics. I remember myself as the Voyager, whose deepest nature is the Clear Light itself. I am one, there is no other. I am the voidness of the Void, the eternal unborn, the uncreated, neither real nor unreal. All that I have been conscious of is my own play of consciousness, a dance of light, swirling patterns of light in infinite extension, endless endlessness, the Absolute beyond change, existence, reality. I, the Voyager, am inseparable from the Clear Light. I cannot be born, die, exist, or change. I know now that this is my True Nature.
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Anyway
Posted by chris on Thursday, September 13 @ 07:59:19 PDT (3 reads)
Topic Spirit
| People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Love them anyway. If you do good, people may accuse you of selfish motives.
Do good anyway. If you are successful, you may win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway. Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable.
Be honest and transparent anyway. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway. People who really want help may attack you if you help them.
Help them anyway. Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt Give the world your best anyway. -- Meditations From A Simple Path -- by Mother Teresa
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satellite imaging manhattan
Posted by chris on Wednesday, September 12 @ 16:14:28 PDT (1 reads)
Topic Violence
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Combined Coverage
Posted by chris on Wednesday, September 12 @ 16:06:42 PDT (5 reads)
Topic Violence
| Late Breaking news and Resources, click on Read More.
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Who's Bombing Whom in Kabul?
Posted by chris on Tuesday, September 11 @ 15:11:52 PDT (2 reads)
Topic Warfare
| Well, live on CNN right now is coverage of bombing in Kabul. We don't know who's doing it or why. We are neither admitting to nor denying this act of war on Kabul. We'll see how it pans out. The artists to turned me onto this news in AOL IM says he's not ready for WWIII -- neither am I.
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Photos of WTC from Brooklyn
Posted by chris on Tuesday, September 11 @ 15:01:42 PDT (3 reads)
Topic Violence
| A photographer from Brooklyn took some pictures of the World Trade Center. Oddly beautiful photographs. What do you think?
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The Nature of the WTC Arhcitecture
Posted by chris on Tuesday, September 11 @ 14:25:51 PDT (3 reads)
Topic Violence
| Anonymous writes "The WTC towers had a distinctive structural system which utilized the exterior wall framing for lateral bracing -- a so-called lattice framework."
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My Experience of Wednesday's Terrorism in DC
Posted by chris on Tuesday, September 11 @ 12:42:13 PDT (2 reads)
Topic Violence
| | Egad! I found out on the way back home this morning from a friend's house. On NPR. At 0930. Washington was hit by an AA jet -- the Pentagon.
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Friends, Please Check In!
Posted by chris on Tuesday, September 11 @ 11:33:35 PDT (3 reads)
Topic Chris
| | If you are here, you might know me. First of all, I would like to take this opportunity to offer my condolences to those who are suffering, are injured, or have died, and their friends and family. Secondly, please click on the "comments?" link below and let me know if you are okay? Or if you want or need to talk about this.
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Washington Gridlocked and Panicked.
Posted by chris on Tuesday, September 11 @ 11:01:47 PDT (0 reads)
Topic Traffic
| | Union Station is closed down, for obvious reasons. 395 in Virginia is as well. I was just on the road picking my friend up from Dupont so she would not be alone, so I know that 16th street up to Bethesda is locked, so is New York Avenue, Rhode Island, Mass Ave, and obviously downtown. I have decided not to leave the city, as this probably won't go NBC, so I am staying put. People are blowing through red lights and stop signs. Emergency Vehicles are stranded in traffic. I recommend leaving your windows open so that you can hear sirens and horns The routes out of the city are mad and gridlocked but most folks who are home are eating lunch right now at the stores and restaurants around the hill. Don't panic. Stay at home. Slow and stop for pedestrians. Give blood. Respect the authority of the street cops as they direct you, if you will be on the road. Be safe.
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Washington (and America) Under Siege.
Posted by Chris on Tuesday, September 11 @ 08:10:57 PDT (2 reads)
Topic Crime
| This morning at 0850 a jetliner crashed into the World Trade Center. Then another. Then a jetliner crashed into the Pentagon. A car bomb at State. A fire at the Old Executive Office building. I heard an explosion on the way home from Dupont. I guess it was the State Department. The towers collapsed. There is a jetliner on route to DC. It is hijacked. A 747 crashed in Western PA. Part of the Pentagon is collapsed. All federal buildings have been evacuated. F-16s are scrambled. The two towers are collapsed at the World Trade Center. What are you doing right now? Are you okay? What were you doing when the initial terrorist action was perpetrated?
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Amazing Spontaneous Party
Posted by chris on Saturday, September 08 @ 10:50:12 PDT (8 reads)
Topic Chris
| Chris writes "Thanks to Mira and her love for Monu, we had a gathering at my pad on Thursday. It was pretty amazing, and my subterranian loft was chock-a-block with very beautiful, intelligent, and charming people."
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