An audio version of this post is available. Please click on the link below to listen to the post in its entirety. https://anchor.fm/s/dbba7148/podcast/rss What's pitted and scarred and filled with pock marks, yet is considered one of the sexiest objects out there? If your answer is 'tektites', you would be absolutely correct! At least you'd... Continue Reading →
I was sitting on my favorite chair outside in my backyard the other day, minding my own business, enjoying the winter sunshine when something happened which caused me to rethink a very boring subject--geometry. Since it's almost spring here, and I live in a very mild Mediterranean climate, the flowers were starting to bloom and... Continue Reading →
(Continued from Human CCC 1: On the Confluence of Crows and Monkeys) You all know me by now. If there is anything I love about Taoism, it's that much of it can be backed up by science, with the rest of the more esoteric stuff, still yet to be proved, not because it's not based... Continue Reading →
Every culture around the world has a Great Deluge or Great Flood tale. For the Europeans, it was Noah's Flood and for the Hindus, it was the manvantara-sandhya. The Mesopotamians have their own flood stories that are very similar to the Native Americans in North America's recounting of a Great Flood. There is also the... Continue Reading →
It's 2023 everyone! Happy New Year to all of you. Hehehe. Let's drink and be merry, shall we? For those of you who have managed to make it alive and well to this point in history, I drink to your continued health, wealth, and happiness. 2022 was a tough year. In fact, it has been... Continue Reading →
It's that time of the year again, when the days will start to lengthen and we begin to move out of the shortened darkened days. I do realize that this vantage point only works if we are on this side of the globe, since those who live on the other side of the globe experience... Continue Reading →
Today, I am going to talk about nothing. Literally--NOTHING. In fact, I have a lot to say about nothing. Since Taoism has a lot to say about NOTHING, I'll start with Chapter 14 of the Tao Te Ching, translated by Derek Lin Tao Te Ching: Chapter 14 Look at it, it cannot be seenIt is... Continue Reading →
(Continued from 4D (Part 2) Hole in the Wall) I love pastries--just as much as I hate math. Anyone who knows me, even in passing, would agree that this is the truth. However, these exigent emotions of epic inverse proportion has just been summarily breached, thanks in no small part by three cool dudes who... Continue Reading →
(Continued from Ancient Việt 7: Văn Khoa Đẩu) I am one of those individuals who never learned my people's ancient history from a classroom. Everything I have learned all came from ancient books which I have had to painstakingly translate and/or decipher, using a very thick ancient Viet dictionary. Famous foreign sources (Chinese) usually have English translations,... Continue Reading →
Ever since Old Dude charged me with being a Tower, I have been trying my best to act like a bona fide, certified Tower. In my mind's eye, a Human Tower should be someone standing tall and proud, eyes slightly closed and facing into the stark cool wind of a fluctuating summer. I imagine myself as... Continue Reading →
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