The life I live, The one I hoped To live— How seldom They coincide. Read this profound thoughts by Columnist David Brooks. The Way to Produce a Person Dylan Matthews had a fascinating piece about a young man named Jason Trigg in The Washington Post on Sunday. Trigg is a 25-year-old computer science graduate of [...]
Life &Meditation Entropy | 11 Apr 2013
This post is being reproduced from my friend Sandra Wells blog, whose thoughts & writing profoundly radiates and mediates our quest of wholeness .. John O’Donohue was a much loved Irish poet and philosopher who much too soon–at 52 years of age. As the poet, David Whyte, put it, John was a love-letter to humanity [...]
A Meeting with Wisława Szymborska- Documentary The film is a journey through Poland and the city of Kraków, guided by the Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Wisława Szymborska. A quest for the ‘fragments of human existence’, which she digs up and polishes into shining nuggets of poetry. Wisława Szymborska is a poet who doesn’t [...]
Books &Life Entropy | 10 Aug 2012
What is life? That, ultimately, is the question posed by Life List, journalist Olivia Gentile’ biography of Phoebe Snetsinger. Phoebe Snetsinger had planned to be a scientist, but, like most women who got married in the 1950s, she ended up keeping house, with four kids and a home in the suburbs by her mid-thirties. Numb [...]
The pursuit of wealth and power, for its own sake, is among the worst of a long list of ills that are the product of our misguided society,drifted increasingly toward anxiety about acquiring individual assets and accolades and away from a balance of looking after both the individual, family and the community. Read thought provoking [...]
DIANE ACKERMAN on the natural world, the world of human endeavor and connections between the two. The Brain on Love A relatively new field, called interpersonal neurobiology, draws its vigor from one of the great discoveries of our era: that the brain is constantly rewiring itself based on daily life. In the end, what [...]