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Dandell, thank you!

posted by Artifact on September 30, 2006 at 2:01 PM | link to this | reply

I don't even know what to say...

Your writing has so much depth I'm not sure which thought you've inspired to address first. I could read that last blog over and over. Very nicely done.

posted by Dandell on September 30, 2006 at 1:28 PM | link to this | reply

Rumored, I think it seems straighter when you look back than when

you look forward.

posted by Artifact on September 30, 2006 at 10:52 AM | link to this | reply

blackcat, it does make it more fun!

Who knows where one of those turns will take you?

posted by Artifact on September 30, 2006 at 10:52 AM | link to this | reply

avant-

They had a "community mandala" that one of the students here designed that I was able add to.  It was very calming and made me feel very tranquil.  I can understand why it is such a mesmerizing practice.

posted by Artifact on September 30, 2006 at 10:51 AM | link to this | reply

Passion, I think we still have twenty years

I agree with you, though, that we probably don't have long unless we drastically change our ways.  But people have never been good about that, unless there is an impending doom that they can feel.  Global warming is still something many people don't believe in.

posted by Artifact on September 30, 2006 at 10:50 AM | link to this | reply

Thank you very much, afzal!

posted by Artifact on September 30, 2006 at 10:49 AM | link to this | reply

Lady, I am very happy for you!

I hope I can say the same thing in the future!

posted by Artifact on September 30, 2006 at 10:49 AM | link to this | reply

lovely, that is very interesting to hear

In the city where I grew up, there is a similar tradition called "zozobra" where people from the city write their "glooms" onto a piece of paper, and then those are all stuffed into a huge paper doll that is ceremoniously burned in the main park.  I wonder if that's where they got their inspiration?

posted by Artifact on September 30, 2006 at 10:48 AM | link to this | reply

Arti, does that crooked path ever straighten out???

even when all is going smoothly it seems like it's one curve after another (if not us, our daughters)....

posted by Rumor on September 30, 2006 at 9:49 AM | link to this | reply

good post... I always feel that I'm searching for my path, but you're right

I'm on it and have to take the turns whether I want to or not!  

posted by -blackcat on September 30, 2006 at 8:46 AM | link to this | reply

artifact

Those sand mandalas can teach a lot about paths. The pleasure is in the creating.

posted by avant-garde on September 30, 2006 at 4:15 AM | link to this | reply

I loved your post very much....but I don't think the earth will

last twenty more years. She's too damaged already. The permafrost is melting all over the world. As it melts, it produces Methane gas. Humans can't breathe it. At some point the atmosphere will begin to get so saturated that the old and frail and young ones will die.

Then the rest of us.

That's why I think it's important to live the best life you can live today. Today is all there is.

posted by Passionflower on September 29, 2006 at 8:02 PM | link to this | reply

Excellent thought provoking post .

posted by afzal50 on September 29, 2006 at 3:39 PM | link to this | reply

never say never

as i approach nearly 50 years of life - i am quite surprised at where i am at this moment.  but yet very pleased.  i am at peace with myself.  i know who i am - who i love - and what drives me as a human.  i am just very poor.  but a happy poor.  when i look back twenty years i see such torment over the sillyest and petty issues.  it has all finally come together.  what a great post that was. 

posted by ladychardonnay on September 29, 2006 at 3:37 PM | link to this | reply

Artifact,

My son spent three months with a group of Tibetan monks.  What you write here is so true...The monks also have another beautiful ritual of "prayer burning."  They write out their prayers to God, and then burn the paper on which it was written.

The purpose of prayer burning is to release the burden of one's heart and then set the prayer free by sending it floating to Heaven.  This in turn, releases the burden.  Apparently, my son and his wife have a prayer burning alter in their home.  I'd love to see it one day.

posted by lovelyladymonk on September 29, 2006 at 2:18 PM | link to this | reply