Michael C - Instablogs
Dec 12 2008
You may think that this question is very simple to answer, but to me things are a lot more complicated than they appear. Let me tell you why, in the form of two experiences I have been through this last few years. The first one began when I was...
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Dec 10 2008
He was late. Again. She’d kill him. Again. This is a busy part of the year for him, and his girlfriend just-will-not-understand that he can’t be home early right now. Money is money and it has to be made when possible, right? Right. He phones...
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Dec 8 2008
Well, um, I guess I must be. Or should I say I was. (Ok, I still am....) I am writing this because I was prompted to do so by the above photo which I took a couple of days ago, of some homeless guy’s shelter, right next to Perrache railway station,...
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Dec 6 2008
I was brought up to be polite. So I do my best to be. I hold doors open for people, I hold elevator doors open, I open my car door for women, I walk on the outer side of the path to protect women from tyre-splashes, I say please and thank you. And I...
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Dec 5 2008
At a time when most people are looking for scapegoats to blame for the problems of this world, when they cannot understand what is happening around them, when lashing out becomes the Modus Operandi, I thought it might be a good and soothing idea to...
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Dec 2 2008
I was lucky enough to discover the joys and pleasures of reading at a very early age. In fact, I have, since, read nearly every western classic there is to read! And many others from elsewhere too. Dostoyevsky, Hesse, Goethe, Hemingway, Joyce, no...
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Nov 30 2008
Hi, Sunday People, This is another heavily Indian-Influenced song by the Beatles, with lyrics and ideas borrowed from Eastern philosophical thought. It was the second big slap in the spiritual face I got in my life. It’s where I learned that I...
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Nov 29 2008
Listening to this song, of Indian influence, was the first event in my life that made me seriously consider that a spiritual existence was possible for me after my earlier, and disastrous, religious experiences and fiascos. It’s a song by...
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Nov 27 2008
My thoughts go to the friends and loved ones of all the innocent people who were slaughtered in Bombay yesterday. I would also like to express my solidarity with all peace-loving people in India and around the world. This video, with its simple...
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Nov 26 2008
Over a thousand students commit suicide each year in France. The photo is of a N° 47 bus here in Lyon, France. The connection between those two pieces of information is what happened to me two days ago. (Oh, and why ME?!) I was on a n° 47 bus and...
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