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February 2, 2014
January 31, 2014
A traditional Cree parable depicts a rabbit who calmly smokes a pipe unafraid that he is being hunted by the panther. Why is the rabbit unafraid?
Because the rabbit understands that the panther resides in the pipe, and the pipe resides in the panther.
January 30, 2014
Why are the links to all of Vince Larues illustration in your blogspot blog broken and no longer available?
Because I no longer use Google products, so my blogspot blog is no longer online. Vince Larue’s drawings can be found at his blog:http://vincelarue.wordpress.com/
Haiku
cold room,
unlit logs
in the fireplace
January 29, 2014
Guest Blog Post: A Brief Primer on Inequality by Larry Fondation
Over the past 30 years, since the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, the gap between rich and poor has widened tremendously.
Three decades ago, Americans’ income tended to grow at roughly similar rates, no matter how much you made. But since about 1980, income has grown most for the very rich. For the poorest 20 percent of families, it has dropped.
Incomes for the top 1 percent of American wage earners soared 31 percent from 2009 through 2012, after adjusting for inflation, according to data co...
January 28, 2014
powells:
life-after-potter:
Saw this at Powell’s the other...
Saw this at Powell’s the other day.
Interrupting our regularly scheduled Tumbling for this important [Portland] Pee-SA.
January 27, 2014
January 26, 2014
Arizona bill allows businesses to discriminate against unmarried women, non-Christians
Republican state Sen. Steve Yarbrough has said that he introduced Senate Bill 1062 because a “modest clarification” was needed in the state’s religious-freedom law, according to The Arizona Republic.
Among other things, the bill would expand those protected by the religious-freedom law for religious assemblies and institutions to “any individual, association, partnership, corporation, church, re...
January 25, 2014
Robert Burns: Scottish Zen
Today is the birthday of Robert Burns, Scotland’s national poet, and one of the great Zen poets of the West. Sadly, I haven’t managed to find any vegetarian haggis in Portland.
But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white - then melts for ever;
Or like the borealis race,
That flit ere you can point their place;
Or like the rainbow’s lovely form
Evanishing amid the storm.
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