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Paul Simon ~ slip slidin’ my way from the blues to the rainbow’s loving hues

Written by Patrick on June 12, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: Blues, Insight, Music

A day of sunshine and warm summery breezes, moving conversation and revealed transformations, a day of intimacy and worries unburdened, of gratitude and the most difficult of life’s moments shared… A day not so much impervious to the hardships, the horrors, the blues, but one that finds itself on the other side of them, finds the lessons [...]

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We’re too good to be this political ~ Be the change you want to see in the world

Written by Patrick on May 29, 2010 - 15 Comments
Categories: Insight, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Political, Social, Spirituality, Stories

My first mistake today was climbing into the bathtub and picking up the May 31st, 2010 edition of Canada’s weekly news magazine, Macleans, rather than the copy of Stephen Mitchell’s The Second Book of the Tao, in which I’d thought to have a nice, long spiritual soak along with the hot water, and possibly bubbles. [...]

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Quotes and notes regarding Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram

Written by Patrick on February 18, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: ...a quote, Books, Fiction, Literary

A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.    ~ Gregory David Roberts      from Shantaram I love this passage from the spectacularly enthralling “Shantaram.” Nonetheless, I disagree with it. When the wish and the fear are [...]

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