Category Archives: This Dew-Drop Bardo
Goomp
goomp? a green arc, splashing decrescendo: rings radiant – St. Jude, over uucp, 1980
We are public parks
The recent Cablegate Wikileaks release of hundreds of thousands of cables from U.S. diplomats is more than just a massive “leak”. It is an elbow point, a no-turning-back further realization that our global internet web is forever changing the public/private/secret … Continue reading
Charnel Gaza Ghetto Contemplations
DIME weapons are very effective at shredding people in confined spaces. Geopolitics antipattern: If you kill enough of your enemies it will lead to victory. Short of extermination, that’s false. War is not chess: … Continue reading
We Will Not Give Up on the Earth
Here’s a symbol, along with what I think is an amazing commentary, by the 22-year old head of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, known as the Karmapa, who just visited North America: Ever since the human race first appeared … Continue reading
Social Presencing Theater and Shadow Puppet Plays
A year ago I blogged Social Presencing Theater, as described by Otto Scharmer: A new social art form I called Social Presencing Theater that stages media events and productions to connect different communities and their transformational stories by blending action research, theater, … Continue reading
Albert Hofmann in the Clearing of Being
Albert Hofmann, who in 1938 synthesized the LSD molecule and in 1943 discovered its psychedelic (manifesting the psyche within/out) properties, died yesterday at the age of 102. He was struck by the coincidence of mankind having encountered LSD at the … Continue reading
Money, Scarcity, Interest, and the Web of Wealth
Bernard Lietaer and Stephen Belgin have a fascinating article, In Whose Interest? in the latest issue of Fieldnotes. They examine the nature of interest: According to Stephen Zarlenga, Director of the American Monetary Institute, “Loans were made in seed grains, … Continue reading
Night-Shining White
唐 韓幹 照夜白圖 卷 Han Gan (act. 742–56) Night-Shining White Handscroll; ink on paper; 12 1/8 x 13 3/8 in. (30.8 x 34 cm) My favorite horse of all time… The NY Metropolitan Museum of Art is … Continue reading