buddhist carnival: april 2009, poetry month

the 15th, buddhist carnival time. it’s april, poetry month, so i’ll post only poems and poetry-related articles. from last month’s montreal zen poetry festival i longed to visit the eastern cliff countless years until today i finally grabbed a vine and climbed but halfway there met mist and wind the trail was too narrow for… Continue reading buddhist carnival: april 2009, poetry month

thoughts, blogs, and not much to say

another paid review! haven’t done one of them for a while. let’s just make this a bit of a wild, woolly and completely inconsequential romp. so i’m supposed to review thoughts.com. this is what they say about themselves: thoughts.com is a unique site with interesting conversations and sometimes heated debates. membership is 100% free and… Continue reading thoughts, blogs, and not much to say

simplicity and the internet

as someone with a strong buddhist influence, i often think about simplicity, and make tiny, cautious steps towards it. my baroque mind finds this rather ridiculous because life is most fun and exciting when there are lots and lots of decorations and curlicues, when there is boundless abundance and variations upon variations on themes upon… Continue reading simplicity and the internet

in honour of the paralympics: some disability links

in honour of the paralympics, i thought i’d share with you some of my disability related links in stumbleupon. here they are: the people at profy have an article about social networking for the hearing impaired. tagdeaf is one community that is open to everyone, from deaf to hearing, though it focuses on the deaf… Continue reading in honour of the paralympics: some disability links