Posts Tagged ‘Buddha’
Wanting Within, Wanting Without
I have a tendency to fall victim to the most prevalent diseases in the Western world: I am ill of want. I’ve got a case of the “Gimme Gimme’s”. The moguls of media have me dead in their sights and have hit me with a barrage of advertisements that me sick of the things I have, and […]
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Tags: advertising, avett brothers, Buddha, children, Health, heroic, ill with want, kids, Laughter, Nike, peace, Surfboard, Television, wanting, writing
What is love? Baby . . .
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns Over the holiday season, we are all bound to see some extended family at some point. This class of relatives is definitely a source for stress for everyone, good or bad. I can say, as a dad, as a person with […]
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Tags: anxiety, Buddha, Christmas, expectations, family, George Burns, Holidays, love, Margaret Mead, mental-health, Opinions, Robert Frost, sontag
Do you have a Second?
“Your problem is you think you have time.” – The Buddha That is quite the problem isn’t it? We think we have time to do so many things later. ‘Not now, I’ll get to that later’ – this is what we say about so many things. I was reminded in the last couple of days of the […]
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Tags: Activism and Peace Work, Arnold Bennett, Buddha, debt, human-rights, Mark Twain, peace, politics, time, Walt Whitman
Bipolar 2 Dad 