April 22, 2008 – 10:36 pm
Tufts University, 6pm You can’t understand what’s happening right now in America. We are living in a country that is only 4% of world’s population yet produces 25% of the world’s greenhouse gas, has 25% of the world’s prisons. Some think we have a disposable planet, disposable people. A green economy must be strong enough [...]
If you water house plants daily, regularly, (unnaturally, considering rain fall patterns), they tend to develop roots that are close to the surface, superficial. If you let the soil dry out just a bit, the plants are challenged; the roots have to go deeper to find sustenance, to grow in ways that provide more stability [...]
January 27, 2008 – 11:52 pm
My RSS reader tells me that a new painting is up over at limonana. The Conference of the Birds is beautiful. I can’t get over the cartoonish curve of the horizon line, the minimalist trees, and the dense, almost moiré patterns of gold leaves (or something) beneath the horizon. The artist’s work and contact information [...]
In a whole blog full of beautiful posts, Blogwarrior Phillipe has just cast light on the Don Imus thing from a Bahá’àperspective on strength, nobility, and the station of African Americans: What I concluded is that the excessive focus on how upsetting these kinds of statements are to African Americans is a way of [...]
March 30, 2007 – 12:04 pm
!pain kicked off an illustrious comment on universal participation with a reference to the Valley of Knowledge, a Valley I’ve been studying recently. Beyond containing one of the best Layli and Majnun stories ever, the Valley of Knowledge describes (for me) a state of being in which one sees the nature of things, and recognizes [...]
!pain and I at the Green Lake Baha’i Conference, Summer 2006. Thanks, Firefly. (For not telling me, and for allowing me the exquisite pleasure of stumbling upon myself on youtube.)
January 15, 2007 – 3:35 pm
Hullo. We’ll still be shuffling things about over the next month or so, but it should be noted that we’re back. The most exciting news is that we’ve switched from Network Solutions to AISO green web hosting. This is a direct result of attending the regional sustainability seminar at Green Acre Bahá¡’á School in Eliot, [...]
January 15, 2007 – 2:00 am
This is my Majora Carter post. We’ll get to the “omg welcome back!” post soon. It’s being edited. I’m practicing saying what I mean in these posts, and sharing what is actually inside of me, which means they take a little longer to spit out. So: Majora Carter. Words do not do her justice. She [...]
Spring 2006: So I was raising my hands in supplication the other day; my window was open, and I realized that it smelled like tall grass prairie. It smelled like impending summer. And it reminded me how important these things are. I drove out to the U of M botanic gardens on Sunday, had a [...]
November 9, 2005 – 1:07 am
I am sitting in a study carrel in the graduate library at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I am staring out the window as I type this, watching occasional streetlamps and headlights swim in a sea of pitch black. Silvio Rodriguez is singing La Familia, La Propiedad Privada y El Amor in my [...]