Gabriel Gudding's Blog, page 6

one of my favorite youtube videos and i'm not sure whyp...

one of my favorite youtube videos and i'm not sure why

paul gamache, former holder of the world record for freefall waterfall descent in a kayak, 108 ft, runs smith river oregon hole gorge on california oregon border at flood stage, 80,000 cubic feet/sec, heavily aerated water too small boat

i don't really know what bruni's singing, so it's not her words necessarily. maybe the song's melodic/

one of my favorite youtube videos ever. paul gamache, for...

one of my favorite youtube videos ever. paul gamache, former holder of the world record for freefall waterfall descent in a kayak, 108 ft, runs smith river oregon hole gorge on california oregon border at flood stage, 80,000 cubic feet/sec, heavily aerated water too small boat
[there is some strong speech by a clearly good humored but naturally concerned person
next to the camera as his friend

how it was for some

"Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation progra...

"Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. In a study that will appear in the January 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, a team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers report the results of their study, the first to document meditation-produced

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The momentum given ... by passage through sorrow is missi...

The momentum given ... by passage through sorrow is missing when peace is sought through avoidance. A flat life of calibrated retreat may appear placid and ordered to neighbors, but those who live minimally and timidly tread water, enduring a life of chronic anxiety-depression.
Cultivating Inner Peace, Paul R Fleischman, MD, psychiatrist and Vipassana Acariya


Give not thyself up, then, to fire,

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, ...

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the

my cats dressed in polar bear suits

what the song asks

The question it asks is clear: Should those we knew and loved be forgotten and never thought of? Should old times past be forgotten? No, says the song, they shouldn't be. We'll remember those times and those people, we'll toast them now and always, we'll keep them close. "We'll take a cup of kindness yet."
- Peggy Noonan, "Days of Auld Lang What?: The Origin of the New Year's Anthem and What it

Kiran Bedi - Director General of Indian Police Service and Vipassana Meditator

Kiran Bedi transformed the largest and most violent prison in India, Tihar Prison, population 10,000, by instituting ten-day courses in Vipassana Meditation as taught by S. N. Goenka. Crime and violence in the prison dropped dramatically. See the Israeli film Doing Time, Doing Vipassana about Vipassana in Tihar Prison.
While she was police chief in the city of New Delhi, she had every police