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Chasing The Asson: September 2013
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Walking the crossroads of priesthood. Sunday, September 1, 2013. Two Songs for Saumya. The Slide Song by The Afghan Whigs on Grooveshark. People keep asking me how I’m doing dealing with my concussed wife. Thank you very much. I’m doing fine myself, really. Gone is the anger of the past, anger at the disease of Endo. Which is particularly hard to deal with. Pain is tough, and it wears a person down, the person going through it and those around them. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). By Maur...
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Chasing The Asson: Missing The Point: White Privilege Part 1
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Walking the crossroads of priesthood. Saturday, September 15, 2012. Missing The Point: White Privilege Part 1. I was deeply saddened and angry by the Sikh Gurdwara (temple) shooting. I wrote the post I Wear a Kara. In its wake. In the discussion that followed I understood that I didn’t quite fully achieve what I was hoping to. How did I go astray? Twitter user @sikhknowledge sums it up for me. People of different skin color are treated differently. They are followed in stores; they are asked if they ...
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Chasing The Asson: Crisis of Faith
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Walking the crossroads of priesthood. Tuesday, June 9, 2009. I’ve been away for a bit, first on vacation, then last week with my father’s funeral, which has a point. The New York Times MAGAZINE. April 26, 2009. How a Zen master found the light (again) on the analyst's couch. I myself was brought up Catholic, then born-again Christian, then I drifted. I’ve practiced as an initiate of the Himalayan tradition under a guru and am practicing and studying Vodou today. Should one have any morals at all? Im sorr...
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Chasing The Asson: An American Shakedown in London
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Walking the crossroads of priesthood. Saturday, July 23, 2011. An American Shakedown in London. Caution: There are some minor adult themes in this one. I love Guy Ritchie films. My favorites are. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The agent offered to rebook us by flying us to New York, take a bus from one New York airport to another, and fly out from there. I asked when the next one out of Chicago was: 12 hours. When do they both arrive? We tied one on. Another nine hours later, we arrived in Lond...
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Chasing The Asson: Conversion or Initiation
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Walking the crossroads of priesthood. Sunday, September 23, 2012. What do you believe in? Why do you believe it? Were you born into it or did you change your beliefs as you came upon it? Is it mutually exclusive of other viewpoints and beliefs, or is it inclusive and expansive with them? The two words: conversion. Used in a religious or spiritual context have subtle differences in meaning. They both usually refer to coming to a new religious system or belief, but they depart from there. You now have acce...
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Chasing The Asson: There Is No Hell
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Walking the crossroads of priesthood. Tuesday, September 13, 2011. There Is No Hell. This is one of the many ideas that struck me during my couche (initiation). There is no Hell. I began rolling it around in my mind. It wouldn’t leave me. It seems to be the culmination of my philosophy that started back in college years ago. The God I did believe in was one of love. What I’m Looking for with Religion. Many religions have too much negativity. For the religion I came from, it was built around this concept ...
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Chasing The Asson: Feel the Pain
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Walking the crossroads of priesthood. Thursday, April 4, 2013. The best quote I heard last week, “this Vodou stuff isn’t for pussies.” Thanks Mambo, I needed that. My solace, the song that’s gotten me through this period is Dinosaur Jr’s Feel The Pain. (Best video ever.). Dinosaur Jr.–Feel the Pain. When you ride you’re in it, a part of it. When your riding gets good the communication is part of that subtle field. When I say you become close, what I’m really saying is you become intim...Writing is in my ...
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nsomniasaum: There’s That Dog Again
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013. There’s That Dog Again. I am sitting on the porch with Urban when a handsome, dun-colored dog runs up to the. Glass door and wags its tail in a friendly way. There’s a dog outside. Urban looks at me, and tells me:. That’s Barnabas. He’s our dog. Oh Are you sure? Yeah, pretty sure. Don’t you remember him? Sometimes, I am fine. Yesterday our horse-trainer came to work with Jetta and. Jasper and give Urban. A salad a caravan a horse a hat what the the the. And I have about as much much.
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Chasing The Asson: The Uninvited Guest
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Walking the crossroads of priesthood. Monday, October 24, 2011. There’s been a lapse in posts. Now has not been a good time at home. When this happens, we attempt to focus our energies where they are needed. Sometimes the writing has to wait. The trouble began while traveling in India in 2001-02. There was something wrong with Saum, my wife. During the holidays she wasn’t well. We both assumed she was sick, there are a number of strange foreign illnesses you can easily pick up there. We call it endo.
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Chasing The Asson: A path that Really Isn’t
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Walking the crossroads of priesthood. Friday, December 14, 2012. A path that Really Isn’t. By Mauricio Quintana, 昆游龍, a.k.a. cintain. Today’s guest post is by Mauricio Quintana. Baited with single-malt scotch or the smile of a pretty woman, and persuaded to sing with nary an enticement. His blog can be found at thewanderingdragon.net. I Amongst the Host of the Pretenders. Photo courtesy of Mauricio Quintana. Say to refute them. After all, subtle perceptions are what they are, right? Has asked me in a pre...
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