To have peace of mind and contentment is easier when things are going well. But when things are tough, we can feel pushed around violently by our situation. The deeper and more entrenched our peace of mind, the less we are affected by our situation and the troubles in the world. When I say affected, [...]
Archive for October, 2007
peace of mind amongst the rapids
Posted in philosophical, reflective, tagged buddhism, peace of mind, peterborough, rapids, zen on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hello.
Posted in reflective, tagged conversation, cute, hello, instant messenger on October 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Hello.”
Am I the only one that does this? I load up the instant messenger program, take a look at who is online, find someone at least slightly interesting, and send them a message. “Hello”, and that’s it. I wait until they reply. “Hello”. I expect a conversation to follow. I [...]
Hilarious Philistines
Posted in creative, tagged coffee, convention, etymology, philistines, skydiving penguins, words on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Philistine! I remember you now, though you were on the tip of my tongue for a while. Must be because I haven’t had my coffee yet today; apparently coffee makes top-of-the-tongue syndrome worse. Philistine, you’re not really a nice thing to be called, at least I don’t think. Dictionary says you mean “smugly commonplace or [...]
moved from google’s blogspot
Posted in about, tagged boring, technical, welcome on October 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This blog has been moved from convergingonconfusion.blogspot.com to this location/service. While I felt blogspot provided a good service, I was unhappy with the lack of features (specifically, the ability to show only the first part of the post on the main page… with a ‘read more’ link). At least, I couldn’t figure that [...]
