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Tuesday

Bullets I'm always open to blog recommendations. This one [http://www.serenityfarmcsa.com/] is by a family farm in Kansas that is trying some cool stuff. * * * * * * * This article isn't as interesting as its title implies, but it's not bad: Apocalyptic beliefs may explain why

Monday

Miscellaneous Rambling Boy, spring slams into us with a bang. From -2 temperatures on Friday to 42 on Saturday. That's a 45-degree swing in 48 hours. * * * * * * * I started up my garden over the weekend, erecting my little portable greenhouse, moving my micro-green trays from the grow

Sunday

My birthday is coming up. My mom gave me a birthday card early, since she'll be out of town. I present it here, virtually unmodified, to spite my three brothers and cause them much envy:

The Week of Coincidences

Three of 'Em I'm declaring this past week the "Week of Coincidences." First, there was the coincidence I mentioned earlier [https://thedailyeudemon.com/36181/] (regarding the Berry quote). And then these two: 1. On February 22nd, I blogged about the apparent virtues of essential oils

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The constant innovation that is America, even in the era of the jackboot socialist-wannabes in Washington:

Happy Birthday

And a BYCU, of sorts: Happy birthday to Marie. At age ___, she's as attractive as she was when we first met. That's an exaggeration, but not much of one. Last year, she got carded at a bar. When I then offered the barmaid my i.d.

Friday

47 pictures with incorrect use of quotation marks [http://news.distractify.com/avericlements/the-30-most-unnecessary-uses-of-quotation-marks-in-history/] . The writer's commentary beneath each picture is pretty good, too. Sample: ...Actually, this one is pretty on-point.

Thursday

The Zen of Lisieux Two passages from John C. h. Wu's The Golden Age of Zen that I ran across last week: "Tao is nothing else than the ordinary mind, every ordinary action is an expression of Tao." "[O]ne of the central insights of

Wendell

Great Quote So I took that Wendell Berry book off my shelf earlier this week and read a few pages. On the third page, I ran across this great passage: "What I'm arguing against here is not complexity or mystery but dualism. I would like to purge

Wednesday

I stated earlier that I like Zen because it represents the highest attainment of un-assisted philosophy. It dawned on me later that I should probably explain myself. What I mean by this is, Zen has sought the highest truths through naked thinking and meditation, without the assistance afforded by