Archive for the ‘James Brown’ Category
A Super 8 Spectacular: Childhood Memories
A compilation of Super 8 footage from my childhood and a small tribute to Norton Buffalo, who died recently. “Thank you lord for giving me another day” says Norton. My sister Kathy is unavoidably throughout this video, just as she is in all the footage I have. She seems the one constant throughout our entire [...]
Finding Wisdom among the White Mountain Masters
Once in the Jurassic about 150 million years ago, the Great Sun Buddha in this corner of the Infinite Void gave a Discourse to all the assembled elements and energies: to the standing beings, the walking beings, [...]
Work is love made visible
I’ve read quite a few passages on discovering your authentic work, or what some would refer to as a “calling”. Most recently, I completed a book by Jonathan Haidt named The Happiness Hypothesis in which he quotes Kahlil Gibran in a chapter about Love & Work and how it is linked to a calling or [...]
The Third Age by James Brown
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more; it is a [...]
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