Bodhisattva in Metro   no comments

Posted at 10:47 am in YouTube Oracle

This is even funnier if you’re familiar with riding the Metro in Paris – where people rarely crack a smile. Feel free to laugh along :)

Written by cranky on February 26th, 2010

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Phrasing   no comments

Posted at 1:31 pm in Life's Little Dharma

A little more thought on words having power.

I realized that after the age of 50, there seem to be a few American phrases that have dropped out of my everyday usage. Phrases like “Kill me now” when something so boringly unbearable happens. Or telling a friend that “When I start acting geriatric, just take me out in a field and shoot me.”

Nope, those are things I don’t say anymore.

I realized that no matter how long I live, how much time I have left, there isn’t enough life left to be saying such things, in my head, or in public.

Written by cranky on October 29th, 2009

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Surroundings   no comments

Posted at 12:07 pm in Life's Little Dharma

Sometimes it’s when I’m in the dirtiest, grittiest places that I get really in touch with living life. I think that’s why, if I am going to live in a city, I usually seek out gritty neighborhoods. My current digs in Berkeley are really too nice. But my current housesit is in the gritty and very dirty barrio of the SF Mission District, which I happen to love. This place makes me feel alive.

The only thing missing is an organic produce vendor.

Written by cranky on August 25th, 2009

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