I Am


Human love, the spiritual union of sex. Opposites as aspects of the One. An angel holds out her hands in blessing upon a man and a woman, Adam and Eve, the primal couple, the original mother and father. Behind Eve is the serpent in the tree of knowledge and behind Adam is the tree of life. Between the lovers are the clouds of unknowing, holding further fertility and mystery. At their feet runs the path of life, ascending to the mountain of knowledge. All is illumined by the great sun of Oneness. This is above all the card of Human Love.

Which tarot card are you?

I want to leave the world like this, too:

COLFAX, Calif. (AP) - In the hours before he was found dead, two people saw the body of Colfax editor A. Thomas Homer on the office floor, but neither raised an alarm because they thought he was sleeping, officials said.

Homer, 60, was discovered dead by a secretary who arrived at the Colfax Record office Monday morning.

But a janitor twice saw Homer's body on Sunday, and a woman who dropped by the newspaper office also saw it early Monday, said Placer County Sheriff's Sgt. John Addoms.

``It's an unusual thing that nobody would have investigated further,'' Addoms said. ``The fact is, everyone thought he was asleep.''

A janitor standing outside the office saw Homer lying just inside the front door on Sunday morning, Addoms said. The janitor wasn't worried because Homer frequently worked when no one else was there, Addoms said.

The janitor returned Sunday afternoon and cleaned the office, even picking up a plaque that had fallen off the wall and was lying 12 inches from Homer's feet, Addoms said.

``He shouted at (Homer) and believed he had made an audible noise back at him,'' Addoms said. ``He believed he was still sleeping.''

At 5 a.m. Monday, a woman dropped by the Colfax Record and saw the body on the other side of the glass door, he said. She also knew Homer to work before or after hours and wasn't concerned.

It is unknown whether Homer was alive or dead when seen by either visitor, Addoms said. An autopsy showed that he had died of heart failure.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/8342355.htm

Hiro was discussing his new definition of good music today in the car after he and I ate at Church's Chicken. (So good.) He said that good music is any music that can be arranged for another ensemble in other genres. I like that.

Hey Dave-bro, an a cappella group on campus (the Golden Overtones) did an arrangement of Maroon 5's This Love.

Isn't that weird? Remember when we watched them oh so long ago in that crowded Tower Records on Sunset?

Man.

Thanks to Cadence from OF for this. The close friend of one of our members passed away last Saturday in a car accident. We are discussing death and how to cope with it. This is a choir song, and I find it to be beautiful.

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there
I do not sleep
I am a thousand winds that blow
I am the diamond glint on snow
I am the sunlight
Sunlight on ripened grain
I am the gentle morning rain
And when you wake in the morning's hush
I am the sweet uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight
I am the soft stars that shine at night
Do not stand
Do not stand at my grave and cry
I am not there
I did not die

I carry a torch in one hand
And a bucket of water in the other:
With these things I am going to set fire to Heaven
And put out the flames of Hell
So that no one worships God for fear of hell or greed of heaven.

~ Rabia, 8th-century Sufi mystic and poet

I love this. Thanks to Rev. Joshua for posting this on OF:

I am reminded of a story I heard in my buddhism class. A young monk was meditating and suddenly jumped up and said "Master, I just had a vision of a golden buddha!" And the older monk just replied casually "Just keep meditating and it will go away".

You Are When The Levee Breaks

You are a dominating person. People don't stand in your way. Everybody basically does what you say. And if they don't, they better start, or you just might have one of your henchmen kill them.

Just like "When the Levee Breaks" dominates Led Zeppelin IV, you dominate your world. You don't have time for nonsense (it's surprising you even took this quiz) and you would love to be dictator of the world someday.

You are dark and scary, and you probably don't at all care about this quiz, if you even bothered to read your results.

Take the Which Led Zeppelin Song Are You? Quiz

Seriously, though. Visit this place:

CSS Zen Garden

I want its children. Or, I want it to have my ... yeah.

Today I went to go buy a red scented candle from Bath & Body Works, because I had been using a red scented candle in L.A. for meditation, and it worked really well. So I left the store and suddenly became very self-conscious of the Bath & Body Works Bag I was carrying. Then, almost just as suddenly, it hit me: why am I self-conscious? Is it because I'm afraid people will think I'm gay? Oh. Wait. I am.

It just goes to show you that even I have some social unconditioning to do, for all my talk. Nasta (a psychic I've visited fairly often) was right. You see, I'm very okay with the idea of being homosexual. In fact, I honestly don't care that other people are--and, mind you, this used to not be true. But regardless, it bugs me when others see me as gay. What a pair-o'-docks! That's the privilege of being a homosexual man who is able to pass himself off as heterosexual! It really is a privilege, but I shouldn't be proud of it.

Anyway, I'm listening to the theme from Flashdance, "What a Feeling," by Irene Cara.