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Brass nor stone: November 2006
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Thursday, November 16, 2006. This fine red admiral, Vanessa atalanta, was resting in the afternoon sun in the Onion Creek greenbelt. Plus hackberry emperor on a cactus pad, also in the greenbelt. Atheism and its discontents. I've just been reading an article. So are the neo-atheists like Dawkins and crusading blogger PZ Myers theological counterparts of neoconservatives? Well, you'll have to answer the question on your own. These Sufis seemed to me, after I had been reading their thoughts for a couple of...
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Brass nor stone: This year's anti-war parade
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Sunday, March 22, 2009. This year's anti-war parade. I hope this will be my last Austin peace parade blog entry- I started my old blog at stone bridge in 2005, and that year's peace march. Was one of my first blog entries. We locals are always churlish about outsiders coming in and enjoying themselves at the expense of our convenience.). When I got there I found that Wavy Gravy, dressed in his clown suit, was, for reasons unknown to me, the honorary master of ceremonies, before the parade, and Grand Mars...
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Brass nor stone: October 2008
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Friday, October 31, 2008. It was not exactly intended as a real hogan, it was more an effort to construct a place that would have something of the same ambience that Kay felt in Canyon de Chelly. Unfortunately, she never had the opportunity to do so. She died before the deal with Catherine was up. The altar, and the gifts, are still there. So I come out in the dark and sit, with a certain amount of ceremonialism, sometimes chanting the heart sutra and the three refuges. Labels: zazen Life with Kay.
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Brass nor stone: Birdwatching at Hueco Tanks
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Friday, July 18, 2008. Birdwatching at Hueco Tanks. The guy in the tent finally woke up and came out, blinking and yawning. I offered him some coffee. That was quite a storm" I said. He replied. I pointed out fallen branches from the scrub oak trees, the wet sand and some pools of standing water. Well I'll be damned.". We chatted a while. The guy turned out to be a serious birder. This is what I do for vacation. I'm from Cincinnati. I got three weeks off and I go birding every summer". I showed him a hor...
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Brass nor stone: April 2011
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011. Another direction for this blog. I'm thinking of returning this blog to what at one time I intended to do with it by making it a blog mostly devoted to photographs, mainly nature photographs, most of them taken in or near Austin. Some of the photos may have extended commentary, but more often little or none. Examples below. Click on pictures for a larger image. Hmm Google tells us the answer: 181 times before now.). Photo somewhere in Austin, I forget where.
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Brass nor stone: June 2008
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Monday, June 16, 2008. Eve and I at my mother's house in New Braunfels. Eve was home only for a few days, enjoying a moment of silliness well-earned after a second year of her PhD program. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Stone-bridge (my old blog, more or less inactive). Elusive. Sometimes found birdwatching. View my complete profile.
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Brass nor stone: September 2008
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008. Kleptocracy and its discontents. It seems to me that most of America rose in fury at the extortion note, and this scared the bejeezus out of many of the House members, who are all up for reelection. But I think a more muted ransom note will reappear in a few days, and its demands will not be as extreme- at least not overtly- and probably a few more congressmen will be coaxed into voting for it. I know. I know. But one can always dream. Labels: The bailout failure. This poem b...
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Brass nor stone: New Mexico Epiphanies
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008. In the winter time we would go up to see one of the great events of the world, the January congregation of birds at Bosque del Apache wildlife refuge on the Rio Grande north of Elephant Butte Reservoir. The main attraction was the cranes. Cranes are awesome fliers; for instance they reportedly having been seen high over the Himalayas by observers themselves at 20,000 feet. Some people named Shepherd lived at this ranch, at the boundary of the Mescalero Apache reservation. It...
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Brass nor stone: Kleptocracy and its discontents
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008. Kleptocracy and its discontents. It seems to me that most of America rose in fury at the extortion note, and this scared the bejeezus out of many of the House members, who are all up for reelection. But I think a more muted ransom note will reappear in a few days, and its demands will not be as extreme- at least not overtly- and probably a few more congressmen will be coaxed into voting for it. I know. I know. But one can always dream. Labels: The bailout failure.
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Brass nor stone: Ubi sunt
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Sunday, September 07, 2008. Ancient chant
called. 8220;Ubi sunt”. Where be’th they, beforen us weren? Where have they gone, who went before,. Who followed the hounds, forevermore? Whose falcons turn and stoop* no more,. Their woods and fields now they lie within,. And we must become, as they have been;. As they are now so we shall be. It's a beautiful translation, jim. Thanks for stopping by the Dharma Bums today and leaving a comment. It's been a while since we've heard from you. Often wonder h...Elusi...
