September 2011
5 posts
Impossible logic puzzle, #51
Biathlon: Skiing and shooting
Triathlon: Swimming, running and biking
Quadrathlon: ?
Met a sweet little black girl who told me her name and then proudly “I’m named after Lena Horne.” Here’s to honoring the good works of the past and continuing them through own.
Horne was long involved with the Civil Rights movement. In 1941, she sang at Cafe Society and worked with Paul Robeson. During World War II, when entertaining the troops for the USO, she refused to...
“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are...”
Impermanence
On the drive out from Burning Man, reflecting on the lessons I’d experienced there, I wrote notes to myself. The first, most important lesson was “Impermanence.”
Immolation as a reminder of Impermanence
What would motivate people to create great works of beauty only to destroy them? Why would they place reminders of loved ones and their own past in a temple only to see them...