Posted by: admin in: ● July 4, 2010
A week has already come and gone, but I’m still all smiles when I think about my recent trip to Chicago for Cyphan. Such an excited and welcome bunch, and a really well organized convention all round. I’m pretty sure everyone in attendance came away with some fond memories, some new friends and probably some [...]
Posted by: admin in: ● August 24, 2009
I recently spent some time in a country whose native tongue was distinctly different than my own. Though I conversed comfortably in English with most people and felt only slightly left out when they’d engage in more familiar or urgent conversations in the melodious tones of Spanish, I also found myself in situations where I [...]
Posted by: clynedestine in: ● May 7, 2009
“My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness. Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference.” – Dalai Lama Recently I had [...]
Posted by: clynedestine in: ● August 10, 2007
i’m not sure if anyone can relate to this, but sometimes i feel like getting up in the morning is like confronting mount everest – i used to compare this feeling to being covered by the x-ray blanket at the dentist; or sometimes i simply question my direction and the choices i’ve made in my [...]
Posted by: clynedestine in: ● June 19, 2007
if you woke up tomorrow and found out you had 24 hours to live, what would you do? who would you see? what would you eat? where would you go? why? i sometimes wonder if we even so much as asked ourselves these questions, how our lives might be different; how we might make different [...]