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Prompted By Stuff
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We get reminders about hanging onto the past from ballads as well as memoirs.
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The Others at Myristica
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Because I’m an animist (one of the reasons I was so enthusiastic about Dana’s Shinto post) I don’t collect “stuff” so much as welcome new pals to the posse. Julie and I are minimalists with penchants for toys, books, and outsider art. (And ground hogs. Our resident groundhog, the latest of many generations, just passed…
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Stuff – The Tyranny of Things: A Treatise on Material Malaise
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Right, let’s talk about stuff. You know, that ever-expanding collection of… well, stuff. It’s the creeping crud of capitalism, the flotsam and jetsam of consumerism clinging desperately to our lives like a toddler covered in ice cream. We buy it, we hoard it, and then we spend the rest of our days muttering darkly…
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Stuff Multiplies
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I definitely have an issue with stuff magically multiplying.
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We Dance
Prompted By Meditation
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We Dance Shintoism has more followers in Japan than any other religion including Buddhism. A polytheistic and animistic religion, Shintoism, like other eastern faiths, includes the practice of meditation and prayer, and Japan boasts 100,000 Shinto shines. But Shintoism has no central authority and its practices vary greatly among it adherents. Although this…
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Kevin and Khati covered all my salient thoughts about meditation. I meditated formally at the Shambala Tibetan Buddhist Sangha in Lexington, KY, and with yoga instructors over the years. I once visited the Furnace Mountain Zen Center in Clay City, KY. The Center is gorgeous and located on a thousand acres of stunning foothills at…
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An Embarrassment of Stuff
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Another friend had a bumper sticker—“Live simply that others may simply live”—that still seems like good advice.
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Swimming Routine
Prompted By Swimming
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In the 1950s high school swimming was neither competitive nor popular. For the macho man, the game was gymnastics on the bars, football on the field, and baseball on the diamonds. For women, it was cheerleading and theater. We did not have fancy or colorful uniforms. Swimmers had a minimal audience. Our uniforms scantily revealed…
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