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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Closing Thoughts On The 2008 Transplant Games
I realize I am going on and on about these Games but they were a big deal for me, both as a goal to strive for and use as motivation to rehab, and also as an experience. Over 6,000 people attended including athletes, living donors, donor families, and volunteers so it was pretty […]
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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
“Greatest Embrace” by Lisa Lynne Mathis
This road’s been long
Now I must go
If I could I would stay
But what is true
In your heart you must know
I’ll see you again someday
I’ll see you again someday
I held on
As long as I was meant to
I held on longer still
I’m safe in this place
Where I’ll be forever
And I will wait for you
Yes, I’ll be waiting […]
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
My US 2008 Transplant Games 800 Meter and 20 K Results
Tulasi went with me for the last two days of the Games. On the way to Carnegie Mellon for the track and field events, I was expressing to him the intrepidation I was feeling about the 800 meter (1/2 mile) run I was registered for. I was seriously, at least emotionally, considering not doing it. […]
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Baptizing A Drunk
A man is stumbling through the woods totally drunk when he comes upon a preacher baptizing people in the river. The drunk walks into the water and subsequently bumps into the preacher.
The preacher turns around and is almost overcome by the smell of booze. He asks the drunk, ‘Are you ready to find Jesus?’
‘Yes I […]
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
2008 Transplant Games Opening Ceremony
The night before the 5K run, I attended the Opening Ceremony. There are something like 1300 athletes participating in the Games plus living donors and donor families who are being honored. Everyone marched into the ceremony, first the athletes by teams, then the living donors, and then the donor families.
Prior to walking in, we […]
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
5K Run (er, ah, walk) At 2008 Transplant Games
The 5 K race had over a thousand people it seemed to me and I may have even heard that figure at some point. It was a big mass of humanity at the beginning and took me a while after the starting horn blew to even get to the starting line. It was pretty crowded […]
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
Ball Illusion
In this illusion, leaning toward the center leads to the brightness expanding outward, while leaning away does the opposite. Credit: Mark Changizi, RPI
Similarly our opinion of things can change depending on how close we are emotionally to the subject.
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
Srila Prabhupada’s Jan 1977 Train to Allahabad
Referred to in yesterday’s post. Here are some excerpts:
Localized economics — a revolutionary social concept…back to the land, back to freedom…education made simple…give everyone a higher taste…how to get good leaders…farms are the future
Prabhupada: Yes. The department, the sinful departments, illicit sex, meat-eating, this will be closed, and that will make simple.
Ramesvara: Completely?
Prabhupada: No, at […]
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
New Approach Needed For Addressing The Global Food Crisis
I sent the link to my post about her son to Hare Krishna dd and got this response:
Thanks, Madhava Gosh. Readers might also be interested in Asto’s recent editorial (below) in our local newspaper, the Brunswick Times Record (Brunswick, Maine).
Astottara-sata dasa (108) is Alexander Petroff - raised at Gita-nagari in his early childhood. Then […]
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Gosh’s 1000th Post
Yup, this is the 1000th time I have hit the publish button on my blog. As such, I thought it would be interesting to see what posts have been most read by my readers.
The tops by far in number of viewers and ongoing popularity is one from my Illusions category. I collect illusions, […]
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
“Transition” by By Kaumadaki dd
Transition comes
And life moves on –
A sunset here,
And there, the dawn.
(Kaumadaki dd left her body July 3,2008)
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Transplant Games This Coming Weekend!
Saturday I leave for Pittsburgh for the 2008 Transplant Games. I am not ready. The months have slipped by and all the conditioning I had wanted to do has mostly remained undone and I am weak with little stamina. Between bad weather and fatigue, my efforts have been way off the ideal.
I have recently […]
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
One Bright Spot Amidst The Gloom
First the gloom, from the New York Times, April 7, 2008:
Grains Gone Wild
By PAUL KRUGMAN
“These days you hear a lot about the world financial crisis. But there’s another world crisis under way - and it’s hurting a lot more people.
“I’m talking about the food crisis. Over the past […]
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
A Swami Goes Golfing
A swami was feeling bored one Sunday and decided to take the day off from the temple program. He told his servant he wasn’t feeling well and drove away. He stopped at a golf course about forty miles away where no one would know him and decided to play a round of golf.
Up in Heaven, […]
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
A Quest For Him Who Is Above All
“It is well known that in the Orient, in China, India, Japan, and Indonesia, the religious and contemplative life has been fostered for centuries and has known a development of unparalleled richness. Asia has for centuries been a continent of great monastic communities. At the same time the solitary life has flourished, […]