Moments of Awareness

Don't Take This Lying Down - New York Times

Selling the Forests - New York Times

To All the Girls I've Rejected - New York Times

An interesting note: Anyone who's ever in their lives used Ritalin or Prozac is considered unfit for military duty. Panel Advises Disclosure of Drugs' Psychotic Effects - New York Times

Roberts Dissent Reveals Strain Beneath Court's Placid Surface - New York Times

TheStar.com - How to spot a baby conservative  [updated link (February 1, 2014): How to spot a baby conservative /Originally posted in TheStar.com]

The day begins with our external energies feeding our ability to nurture that which matters in our immediate world. We don’t confuse work with home and family, and as morning draws near we find new opportunities evolving to bring our dreams to fruition. Shortly after we arise (in MST) we find ourselves making new and reasonable resolutions with regard to career that promise, if carried through, to positively enhance our public standing. In the early afternoon our friends and dreams come together to enrich our lives in the little ways that sometimes get lost in the big picture. Later we’re motivated to spend some time engaged (truly engaged, not just present) in constructive discussion, which brings us back in a very positive way to the issue of making the most of what our ancestors have given us. In the early evening we find new motivation but keep it to ourselves lest it turn out to be illusionary. Shortly thereafter a bit of turbulence arises in our self-image, once again tied to th...

Gentle Christian Mothers - Christian Attachment Parenting

The Doctor Will See You for Exactly Seven Minutes - New York Times

The recent destruction and recreation of our philosophical stance is highlighted this early morning, and shortly thereafter we find ourselves gaining perspective in our thinking which will translate to clarity in our communication. Mid-morning MST the day takes on a rough edge as we find ourselves faced with reconciling several issues over the course of the next few hours. We feel fairly clear at this point about our career and effect in the wider world, but there’s dissonance between what we’ve come to in that regard and our internal journey. Later in the day we’re reminded once again that reconciling all the issues in our lives, from career to friends to finding our own time to balancing what we have with what we need and what we want, is simply a matter of going about life with an attitude of discipline, and taking pleasure in the rewards as they come. As the day draws to a close we’re in a good place mentally and emotionally, with growth and opportunity apparent on every front. L...

This early morning’s sleeping hours (in MST ) are spent pruning and shaping the growth our ideas have experienced over the last few days. By the time we wake, there’s a clear delineation and reconciliation between what we think and what we need to do. Over the noon hour everything is good as the past and present continue bringing growth and opportunity into our lives, but in the early afternoon a bit of tension arises as we feel that the rewards we deserve for our discipline are too long in coming. If we can put that aside our afternoon ought to be fairly quiet, but in the evening we’re faced again with apparent dissonance between what we have, who we are, and what we think is best. Every day we live we become, if we’re paying attention, just a little more aware that things tend to work themselves out given the time and space to do so. This too shall pass, and if we’re doing our part every rough patch brings us more tools with which to make life generally smoother. It’s just a matter ...

AFE :: Biofuels Team :: Home  [defunct (but Dude's nephew Zach Yatso, who was part of the project, is now an engineer and plant manager :) )]

It’s a quieter day than we’ve seen lately, but quite good. Just after midnight MST our dreams turn to creative uses for this energy with which we’ve been wrestling of late, and mid-morning it becomes apparent that our effort in reconciling these issues has brought us to a greatly enhanced sense of who we are – and we’re happy with what we’ve found. We drift through the midday enjoying this newfound sense of self, and in the late afternoon we come to a place of greater clarity regarding how it is that our past is going to translate into humanitarian work in the wider world, beginning with our friends and loved ones and rippling out from there. Near midnight some tension creeps back in as we find ourselves once again faced with dreams held back by pragmatic thinking, but time will bring solutions so we’d do well to let go wherever possible and allow our sleep to be refreshing and restorative.

We wake this morning ( MST ) after a night spent weighing the issues of the past couple days, realizing that part of our problem in releasing our attachment to what’s come down from our ancestors is that in many ways we define ourselves thereby. It begins to become clearer as we realize that we are so much more than that. We are our choices, and all those choices have made of us. After a few hours sitting with this, accepting the things we cannot change, deciding what of the things we can change we’d want to and seeking the courage to do so, we start with our home and family and begin to shake things up. The afternoon is spent setting a tone for future growth and by evening it becomes apparent how those very issues we thought were holding us back are indeed an integral part of our growth. As bedtime approaches there are still some unresolved points, but overall it’s been a productive day.

A Magical Childhood