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YouTube Video of the Day: The Tao of Jack LaLanne April 5, 2008

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from The Jack LaLanne Show, c.1950s

timeless words of wisdom from
François Henri “Jack” LaLanne,
aka the ‘Dalai LaLanne’…

know Jack, know peace:
official site | IMDb

~~kōans~~ quotes: Wikiquote
BrainyQuote | ThinkExist

Picture of the Day: from the Voyager Tarot - 0 Fool-Child April 1, 2008

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because an image speaks volumes in an instant.

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Like the fetus and dependent child, you live on faith
in the order of the universe. You know that you are taken
care of. In accepting this higher law, you can be the Fool;
you can relax, be yourself, take risks, play.

As the innocent Fool and wide-eyed Child, you are open
and curious. That receptive state of mind makes you
intuitive, original, spontaneous, and present.
You allow your natural genius its expression.

Like the child, you have tremendous vitality, a youthful
energy that wants to move about, experience,and learn.
If you occasionally fall on your face, that’s part of growing.

As the number of this card - zero - you are like spirit;
you are everywhere and nowhere, lost and secure,
young but wise, silly yet serious. You follow the spirit
rather than the practical and conventional.

Taking such a leap of faith may allow you to be fooled
in a worldly sense, but also gives you a rebirth through
a mystical, transcendent experience which brings
a breath of fresh air, a new life, and a new beginning.

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Why go on? March 25, 2008

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Why do i even do this?

i get hundreds of visitors a day @ this site, and people are hotlinking to it
left and right, but no comments, no thanks, no nothin’.

Does anybody out there even like what i’m doing here, or is this site just a source of free music and photos for your LiveJournal or MySpace or Facebook profiles or message board posts to try and help you look cool to your friends?

i’m tired of always sending letters and never getting any back.

~~i think i’m gonna quit this exercise in futility and delete everything pretty soon, so~~ download all you can while you still can, kids…

Picture of the Day: from the Voyager Tarot - II Priestess February 2, 2008

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because an image speaks volumes in an instant.

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As the Priestess, you symbolize the law of knowledge;
you know the truth. Through inner stillness
and equilibrium, you see what lies below the surface.

You know yourself. Equanimous and balanced like your
number, two, you are able to see yourself objectively.
Through your dreams and meditations,
you allow your moon subconscious to rise
to the surface of conscious awareness.

In your watery receptivity, you are the reflecting pool —
a mirror to others. You are a counselor, a wise owl.
Like the dolphin, you tune in to others through vibrations.
As the Temple of Delphi, you are an oracle. You see.

The Queen Nefertiti as a Priestess symbolizes your ability
to bring metaphysical perceptions into the material world.
You can apply the psycho-spiritual arts
in a practical, influential, worldly way.

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Picture of the Day: from the Voyager Tarot - XII Hanged Man December 12, 2007

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because an image speaks volumes in an instant.

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The upside-down Hanged Man symbolizes the law of
reversal. As in the crucifixion of Christ, victory and success
are achieved in a manner opposite from any expected.
Instead of assertive movement and forceful resistance,
salvation is attained through passive surrender.

When feeling hung up, encircled, netted, and walled in,
wait it out. Assume a holding pattern. You are in suspense,
a limbo that demands you tread water.
Acceptance of your limitations brings expansion.

The octopus tentacles signify that you are under
constrictive influences beyond your control.
Surrender your ego. The feeling that you are drowning and
being dragged to the depths is the “dark night of the soul,”
the preparatory stage for rebirth and new life.

The Hanged Man is also symbolic of compassionate
self-sacrifice. Like Christ, giving yourself up for the good
of others enables you to transcend the ego and achieve
union with the great spirit of the Universe.

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YouTube Video of the Day: Pale Blue Dot December 7, 2007

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THIS is here.

This is US.

∞ ∞ ∞

inspired by the essay Reflections on a Mote of Dust by Carl Sagan
and his book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

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Quote of the Day: from Jane Hirshfield December 6, 2007

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because i couldn’t have said it better myself.

Everything I think about the nature of this life
comes down to seven words:

Everything is connected;
everything changes;
pay attention.

And really, you only need the last two — if you’re paying attention, you’ll find out whatever else
you need to know.

~ Jane Hirshfield

Internet Map image by Chris Harrison

Jane Hirshfield photo by Shawn Cady Spelman

J.H. on the www: official site | Wikipedia

poets.org | csmonitor.com | poetryfoundation.org

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Picture of the Day: from the Voyager Tarot - V Hierophant December 5, 2007

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because an image speaks volumes in an instant.

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The Hierophant symbolizes the law of life mastery.
You are like a child learning through the tests of life,
and growing through experience into Buddhahood —
full enlightenment.

The Buddha’s bare feet on the ground symbolize that
the path to enlightenment is through the lessons
of this earthly plane. Like the flower which grows
out of the compost, it is out of the garbage of life —
the storms, rifts, and valleys — that you flower.

Like the Buddha, you are a sage who has already
mastered many tests. You are a guiding hand,
a teacher of others. Like the elephant, you can clear
the way for others. You are an enlightener like Venus,
the morning and evening star.
Listen to your inner voice of experience,
which is symbolized by the Buddha’s ears…

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Second Line… December 2, 2007

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. “Two years ago I was watching
. all the Katrina coverage on TV
. and knew another family coming
. down to do construction for the
. relief effort,” says Peter Spring.
. “I thought I’d join them, then
. thought about what I could offer
. with my own special skills
. and tools.”

Now living by the Mississippi
River in a warehouse that he
turned into a workshop and
performance space, Spring,
57, has donated hundreds
of musical instruments to
musicians, schools and churches
in New Orleans, while teaching a new generation of artists how to play. He’s been doing it since October 2005.

. His mission is personal.
. In 2002, Spring’s 22-year-old
. son, Steven, a talented
. musician in his own right, died
. of a rare form of bone cancer.
“The most amazing thing about my son is that not once through all the pain of his cancer did he complain or waste any time,” Spring says. “He just played as hard as he could right up to the end.
That’s what I had to live up to.”

Crushed by the loss of his son three years earlier, Spring was adrift when the floodwaters of Katrina began washing over the birthplace of jazz. Inspired to help, he founded the nonprofit Steven Spring Foundation, which he named after his son. Spring held a fundraiser in his hometown of Ashland, Oregon and began collecting instruments. By the end of September 2005 he had collected over 60 instruments — from pianos to flutes — loaded them all in a trailer, and started his first 2,800-mile road trip to Louisiana.

. “I feel a huge debt to this
. city — particularly the
. African-American people —
. for inventing jazz, which I think
. is the best thing that’s come out of America,” says Spring, who plans to stay in the city for three more years. “I have absolutely no doubt that I am in the right place doing the right thing.”

Spring arrived in New Orleans
soon after the city reopened,
at a time when most of New
Orleans remained uninhabitable.
On his first night, Spring repaired the piano at Donna’s Bar and Grill, a well-known jazz club on Rampart Street that had flooded after the hurricane. The next day he joined New Orleans’ first post-Katrina second line parade on Bourbon Street, marking the passing of the storm and the start of the city’s rebirth.

“At every point after deciding to do this, fortuitous things have happened that make it seem like it’s all been planned,” Spring says.
“Of course, that’s the essence of jazz.”

~~~||~~~

The Steven Spring Foundation:

3811 Chartres Street
New Orleans, LA 70117

phone: (504) 942-0495
fax: (504) 942-0452
email: SSF@stevenspring.org

website | MySpace

article excerpt via wweek.com

SSF summer music camp photos via stevenspring.org

Flickr photo from The Voice of Eye

YouTube Video of the Day: U2 - One (Berlin version) December 1, 2007

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Is it getting better?

One Love.

Un Amour.

Eine Liebe.

Μια αγάπη.

Un Amore.

Одна Влюбленность.

Un Amor.

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Picture of the Day: from the Voyager Tarot - XX Time-Space October 20, 2007

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because an image speaks volumes in an instant.

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Time-Space, known traditionally in the tarot as
Judgment or Aeon, is symbolized by Xipe Totec,
Aztec god of spring who, wearing the skin of a
sacrificed human, represents the new life which
attends the death-judgment of old karmic patterns.

As symbolized by the three Buddha judges,
this is a time for rendering justice to yourself
through objective and acute self-evaluation.

The law of karma, the law of laws symbolized by
Time-Space, means that with your telescopic vision,
you are able to see the causes and effects
of your mental and behavioral patterns.

You have the ability to see how your past
determined your present and what your present
will create for you in the future.
Through your vision, you are able to alter the future
and redirect your karma. You understand who you are
and where you are going.

You take great flights of mind. You are a futurist and seer;
your visions and ideas are seeds that bubble forth
to alter minds and perceptions.

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Picture of the Day: from the Voyager Tarot - VII Chariot July 7, 2007

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because an image speaks volumes in an instant.

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The Chariot, symbolized by the Greek
Charioteer of Delphi, represents the law of motion.
Your mind, body, heart, and spirit are constantly moving,
running toward their highest possible attainment.

You are moving onward and upward.
You take the challenge to explore all possible pathways
to reach the ideal. You are an adventurer, traveler,
conqueror, and hunter.

The trance-like stare of the Charioteer symbolizes
the meditative detachment and awareness that
give you an inner stillness as you move about.
Your movement then becomes effortless,
and you stay centered amidst changes.

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Quote(s) of the Day: from Martin Luther King, Jr. April 5, 2007

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because i couldn’t have said it better myself…

I’m delighted to see each of you here tonight in spite of a storm warning. You reveal that you are determined to go on anyhow. Something is happening in Memphis, something is happening in our world.

Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it’s nonviolence or nonexistence.

. The hope of a secure and livable
. world lies with disciplined
. nonconformists who are dedicated
. to justice, peace and brotherhood.
.
. Peace is not merely a distant goal
. that we seek, but a means by which
. we arrive at that goal.
.

One has not only a legal, but
a moral responsibility to obey
just laws. Conversely, one has
a moral responsibility to disobey
unjust laws.

. Power properly understood
. is nothing but the ability
. to achieve purpose.
.
. It is the strength required
. to bring about social, political
. and economic change.

What is needed is a realization
that power without love is
reckless and abusive, and
love without power is
sentimental and anemic.

Power at its best is love
implementing the demands of
justice, and justice at its best
is power correcting everything
that stands against love.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968)