Category Archives: Challenge 7 – Ways to Give (WTG)

Making Waves with Tubas – Online Adventures in Personal Boundaries

Another cloudy day has brought me here to repent.  I thought perhaps writing this article in this place, would be appropriate, especially since it is here that I have typed long and hard about the good things I think about.  I am kind of proud that in close to 400 posts I have really had [...]

Two Minutes of Hate – Give the Proud What They Want

I suspect that every one who found their way to this post is aware of the Andy Warhol quote, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” With this meme Andy meant to characterize the impermanence of celebrity as it was then in the late sixties, but how much more true has the [...]

Applying Spaciousness and Beginner’s Mind to Work – Zen and the “Skillful Design” WordPress Theme

Just another step in a long series of steps: I have decided to develop a “Skillful Design” site.  This”design”  site will house some of my public design and creative work.   I plan to host some of my goofier stuff there while continuing to blog from this site.   I am excited about this new adventure. One [...]

Getting to the Essential: Developing an Aspect of the Candle – Lemon

In my last post, Not Your Grandmother’s Flan: Breaking with Tradition – An Inspiration I typed about an inspirational smell, I also mention attempting to create that scent in a candle.  This article I mention trying to create just one aspect of the candle scent. –DV – There is particular aspect of myself that I [...]

Not Your Grandmother’s Flan: Breaking with Tradition – An Inspiration

I should have known I was on to something as soon as the smells wafted up to my nose.  It was a warm smell that closed my eyes and reached the tip of my brain. The smell was not new to me, it seemed all too familiar.  It seemed also seemed like pure comfort in [...]

What a neat gift – Customized M&M’s!

I was just trolling the chocolate posts and just found something that just seemed the coolest thing, a site that allows you to create a bag of customized M&M’s.  Is that cool or what?  You can even put pictures of people’s faces on them.  Here is a picture of the customization web site over at [...]

Setting up for an SL Birthday Party

  Well, I have been putting off the SL Birthday party for sometime now, and of course the much talked about new “house” warming party.  We have finally settled on a date this Saturday at 7 PM SLT at my place.  Dogen and I have got working on setting up the fun (and hiding it [...]

A Moment of Smiling for Paul Newman

  Paul Newman died at the age of 83.  We need more like him.  Thanks Paul for trying to make a difference.    [vodpod id=ExternalVideo.700817&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] more about “Bicycle Scene – Butch Cassidy and the…“, posted with vodpod   Articles that may interest you: More ways to give

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