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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Rites and Passage

My son Charlie has begun his first day of college classes this morning. Yesterday we moved him, in many trips from the parking lot to the 4th floor, into his first dorm, and tomorrow he will have two complete strangers sharing the rooms with him, another first experience. Oh, the suspense of that one! We did the necessary and ritual shopping trip, twice, in fact, because of things bought on the first trip--lamps--in which others were forgotten: lightbulbs. He watched over $300 slide out of his... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 6, 2007

Julia, as she often does, got me thinking about this...

The purity of animals is beautiful, and we can learn, or observe and remember what they, and we in our hearts know. But we are human for the purpose of real-izing something else that has to do with choice. Animals don't have to choose, but neither do most of them get to choose. Some do, the closer they come in the evolvement of their souls, to the human experience. And some are on altogether other paths of learning, I suspect. Those who live side by side with humans are sharing to some extent... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 5, 2007

You want to be a Super Hero?

Have you been watching Stan Lee's contest/reality show? A handful of comic-book super-hero wannabes put on their tights and go live in The Lair, facing tests of character and stamina, until the last one standing wins a comic-book and movie featuring their character... So--if you were going to design a super-hero, who would it be? What would be this hero's cause, and what pithy battle-cry would resound through the pages of the comic-world? What would this hero be called, and what costume would... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 27, 2007

Mind Control--How does he do that??!!!

My son and I watched this show, Mind Control, in which a guy goes around buying stuff with blank white paper and getting total strangers to give him directions, and their wallets and house keys at the same time... The guy is a master of sub-liminal manipulation via neuro-linguistics, body-language, and energy-reading. He also uses some sleight-of-hand, misdirection and the tricks of the stage hypnotist to bemuse and befuddle, and walk away with wallets and keys, a $4500 diamond ring, and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Anger has come up a lot recently...

Reading what some folks here have to say about anger... Working with a client who is working with anger in a postively healing way... Experiencing that kind of anger around life-long relationships that are suddenly over... When you look at the energy of things--as things as the energy that they are--from a fairly neutral perspective, besides becoming easier to look at, some things change their nature tremendously, in your perception. When you look at how a thing first appears, you are seeing it... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 22, 2007

The New York Times obituaries page

ran a long and good-hearted story on my dad yesterday. The author of it called him "cherubic" and "diminutive." These are two words I would never ever have thought to use to describe him! But it does sound better than "chubby and rather short" I suppose... I am sure he is amused, whatever cloud he is on in the Great Out There. The NYT takes an interest because Dad used to supply the Times with accurate sunrise/sunset times every day, but also because through his efforts as an astronomer at New... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

A Love Story

If you've been following my travelblogue, you may have seen the dedication I made last week to my father who had just had valve-replacement and bypass heart surgery. He made some great contributions to the world as a pioneering radio astronomer and as a teacher and an administrator at the Hayden Planetarium for many years. He served as a scientific advisor on the live news coverage, with Frank McGee, on CBS, I think, for several of the Apollo flights. He was friends with Isaac Asimov. And though... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 4, 2007

Family

I woke up this morning in the company of my mother and sister, and my son. This has never happened before. We have never been a close family, and were, for many years, actually estranged through lack of communication, distrust, and old burdens. Less than a year ago, my folks and I reconnected, and now, on this trip of getting Charlie enrolled in college a few miles away, and with my dad undergoing heart surgery (today, in fact, at this moment...) we are together. Charlie is really meeting them... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 19, 2007

What do dolphins do with those big, complex brains?

Our world is about fingers and thumb, and the surface of the land-- we have to work hard to escape it up, or down... and what our eyes tell us, and what to say, what words spoken and written mean... A dolphin's world is more auditory than visual, and has relatively effortless access to more dimensions, but is not at all about what hands can do, about the physical manipulation and adjustment of the environment. They do not use, nor therefore think in strings of words--though I would not argue... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, April 20, 2007

Periannath : a poem for Tolkien and hobbit enthusiasts

Periannath You two were eager lads and reckless with all the joys of youth who never had a troubled thought nor moment of heavy truth. Your games and follies, they never hurt nor cost you very dear; In all your sunny lives, you never tasted darkness and fear. Yet somehow despite the ease and delights, courage sparked and grew and made noble souls, and steady strength, and loyal hearts in you, and when the world and your lives grew dark, it seemed you always knew: It matters not, your stature or... Sign in to see full entry.

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I've been asking the Universe to explain itself to me since I was about 11 years old. I asked specifically how to reconcile God with Science. Now and then, I seem to tune in on an answer. All that I write here represents not Truth, but what I believe to be true.I have my reasons, and I like to believe, my reason. ///Everything of my own words and/or pictures that I post on Blogit is copyright by CLRedding 1972-present, all rights reserved.///

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