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Won't You?

Playing For Change | Song Around The World "Stand By Me" from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.

Earth Hour

Saturday night I will be participating in Earth Hour in an effort to combat global warming. Maybe I'll try and have a little fun with it. Candle light dinner??

I hope you participate too.

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Prophets?

"What this world needs most right now, is a new generation of prophets. - Joan Chittister

Found this quote today after having a discussion with George Pants about this very subject on Saturday night after watching Luisa read her poetry. Who are the new prophets? Who can transcend the narrow boundaries of religion and race, etc.? Where are you? We need you now..

Luisa Pena - Poetry

Here's a vid I took this evening of my friend Luisa reading her poetry at Peet's in Belmont Shore. It was nice to experience a little coffee House Cabaret again.
Luisa Pena Poetry Reading from Dharma Bum on Vimeo.

Atlas Shrugged..

Imagine for a moment that you’re a self-absorbed, selfish asshole. That all of your life you’ve been a self-absorbed, selfish asshole and people around you have been telling you that you’re behaving poorly. That you need to be charitable, and love your neighbor, and not be an asshole, and all that other stuff that Western civilization prizes.

And then, when you’re 13 or 14, you find this wonderful book. And in it you read this lovely parable where all of the True Kings of the World are self-absorbed, selfish assholes and they’re right. Suddenly a new worldview appears: all of the people trying to make you change are wrong, and that you should just go right ahead and be a self-absorbed, selfish asshole. And anyone who tells you differently is a parasite.

That’s the appeal of Atlas Shrugged. It’s a book that tells them it’s okay to be a bunch of greedy fuckers and not feel bad about it. And that if you’re not a greedy fucker, you’re a bad person. You can see why greedy fuckers would really like the book and it’s worldview.

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Saltwater Buddha

Looking forward to this book..

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Love Story

I took this pic as I was leaving my track this morning. Tragically last year, in spring, this duck's wife was run over by a car in that very spot. He has come back this spring and most morning's when I leave for work he is there waiting, in the middle of the street, for the love of his life.

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Sound Advice Project

For all my friends that happen to be parents here's a website that I really like. The Sound Advice Project is an anti-drug campaign that that seems to have a little more heart too it.

Los Angeles-based agency Ground Zero teamed up with The Sound Advice Project to get parents to talk to their kids about drugs with the help of interactive wizardry. To start, parents go to the non-profit’s website and record a personal message for their child. The audio is then visualized as a sound wave and converted into a 3D bracelet. Parents can choose the bead and cord colors and then purchase the custom bracelet for $18, so that their words will literally stay with their kids at all times. Promo video is HERE.

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Spring is Near

Today Michele and I took a walk through Bolsa Chica. With the recent rains the wildflowers were out in full force. Not to be missed if you get a chance. Hurry, they won't be around long. Here's some pics:
 

Here's a quick vid I took of some of the art at Grand Central Art Center's 10 year anniversary opening. If you get a chance head on down for some of the greatest hits.
Grand Central Art Center's 10 Year Anniversary from Dharma Bum on Vimeo.

We’re witnessing the death of old business models.

Monolithic, centralized, non-transparent, boomer-based, last century, industrialized, inefficient, pre-internet, business processes.

Something new and better will replace them. I’m super excited to be alive and able to witness this. Via Jay Parkinson

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. --Carl Jung

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Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth. -Buddha