Category Archives: Links & Quotes

I’m a fan of Zen stories and a book I just read (Zen Life by Koji Sato) is full of them. Below is a story I particularly enjoyed, transcribed in full: On Mount En in the outskirts of Okayama City … Continue reading →

Folks, you’ve got to watch this with your sound up loud. But make sure to have a chair with straps because it’ll throw you for sure. Qi Zhang’s performance of “Ridiculous Fellows” from Prokofiev’s “The Love for Three Oranges” orchestral … Continue reading →

Today’s Gill comic is delightful. I actually laughed out loud reading it. I hope I didn’t wake anybody up…It’s 1:15AM. ‘Course if I did, I’d ask them to come over and read that there comic strip.

I just finished reading The Earth is the Lord’s by Abraham Joshua Heschel, and wanted to share a thoughtful story from the book, of which there are a few: In the elementary school textbooks of Hebrew in use a quarter … Continue reading →

Well, apparently people are suffering from the depression, or recession, or whatever we are in right now – at least that’s what we are hearing from all the major news media outlets; “analysts” on NPR, CNN, Fox News, etc. etc. … Continue reading →

One of the purposes of poetry specifically and art in general is to put into words what we know but cannot express. I think that if people could embrace the simple philosophy that is espoused by this poem, we would … Continue reading →

“With the mainstream news media and the blogosphere caught in the pre-election excitement, I saw no viable path to a rational discussion. Rather than step clumsily into the sound-bite culture, I turned away whenever the microphones were thrust into my … Continue reading →

I originally went to Steve DeRose’s site because he has written extensively about hypertext – which I am researching – but happened also to find an interesting article debunking the myth that “Eskimos” have N number of words for snow. … Continue reading →