September 30, 2008

Enlightened Transfiguration

Awareness, the capstone that lies between two inverted pyramids, is the place where energies from the cosmic materialize if the subject defined is the physical world of “Matter”. The balance between spirit and form, joined at the point, when focused, crystallizing into something capable of being perceived by the five senses.
The capstone, urged by [...]

September 28, 2008

Paul Newman, A Man For All Seasons (1925-2008)

As the news spread that Paul Newman, one of the most magnetic actors to be gifted to the film industry, had died on Friday Sept 26th, 2008, from cancer at the age of 83, a sense of passing filled the air as if nature had paused to recognize the last embrace of a defining soul [...]

September 27, 2008

Coq Au Vin - New York Style

“The secret to making a really good Coq au vin is not what you dump into the pot, but how you dump it.”
…a French cook in New York City
Coq Au Vin is a wonderful dish, easily prepared to bring out your French sensibilities, un repas chaud with a smile and a flourishing bouquet of aromas. [...]

September 26, 2008

The Nature Of Material Being

“You know we are living in a material world” is more than lyrics from Madonna’s signature song. It is something everyone is doing, consciously or not, molded by cultural impressions and symbols. The learned connotations suggest that limits can be broken by expanding imagination. A visualized horizon realized from the wisdom learned about the material [...]

September 24, 2008

What If I Were Elected President?

After the election, it occurred to me that I should read the constitution and clarify what my powers would be. It did no harm to explore being sworn in by the Chief Justice on a cold morning after a storm passed leaving a foot of snow. The stands where the ceremony would take place would [...]

September 22, 2008

Pondering Free Will

Whatever the void is, divine revelation or unanticipated existence or nothing at all, a residue must be left behind, if only as thoughts, memories impressed as the footnote of one’s life, as each one, individually unique, is part of the continuity represented by an endless string of pearls: a descriptive eastern analogy. Whatever the personal [...]

September 20, 2008

Buon 74 Compleanno! - Sofia Villiani Scicolone Ponti-Loren

Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.Sex appeal is 50% what you’ve got and 50% what people think you’ve got.
A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn [...]

September 19, 2008

In Defense Of Aristocracy

Members of the Aristocracy never asked to be born of nobility - a class that evolved from the respect for military prowess and competitive skill noted in many chronicles from the cradle of democracy, ancient Greece.
Over time, the meaning changed depending on society. The French viewed the aristocracy as the inheritors of elitism during their [...]

September 17, 2008

Is It Possible To Attract Attention Doing Absolutely Nothing?

Assuming that one is neither incredibly attractive, grossly ugly or of public notoriety, blending into the surrounding without notice would be easy.
Perhaps fashion, its obtuseness from the boundary of usual would also turn heads. Glumbert (Timefreeze) proved that it is possible to be average, do nothing, and “encourage” people to notice you.
They had 207 people [...]

September 15, 2008

Political Blockbusters or Reality Cinema?

I never thought there would ever be a President that I loathed more than Richard Nixon. George W. Bush fits that visceral category, a reaction to the last seven and a half years of his derisive administration. It’s difficult to know where to begin the list, a complex mix of premeditation and incompetence that pervades [...]

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