Define Irony.

A man protesting the pending health-care overhaul needed medical attention is tended to by paramedics during a rally in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Thursday.

Thoughts on life and death #1

Shunryu Suzuki Roshi:

Life is like

stepping onto a boat

which is about to sail

out to sea

and sink

"Proximity to death wakes us up. Death dispels the most potent illusion about life - that i t belongs to us, and that we have all the time we need to arrange it the way we awant. But in many ways it is a gift that our life is limited, impermanent. We hold it more dear because it is so."

~ Wayne Muller

I got married.

For the handful of people that follow this thing here are a couple of photos.





Life is very good.

20 years ago today.

Remembering Tianamen Square.

Wikipedia article.

My chic little golfer.

I think she's the only one I know that could show up in a dress and with a purse for her first round of golf ever and pull it off. For the record she did great. :)

A day spent at Mt. St. Helens

Gosh I love living in the Northwest.

Fleet Foxes in a big room, from Blogotheque.

Superb.

The fragrance of a rose.

The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-tzu's dictum:

Those who know do not say;
Those who say do not know.

When the Master entered they asked him what the words meant.

Said the Master, "Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?"

All of them knew.
Then he said, "Put it into words."
All of them were silent.

Happy Birthday Mr. Rogers.

Thanks for being my neighbor.

This is incredible.

What happens when you take random samplings from around Youtube and mix them together? It's a form of sampling, but he's pulling it all together from a bunch of unknowns, instrument by instrument, voice by voice and the result is exceedingly awesome. I encourage you to watch, wait for at least 43 seconds in.