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My Dhyana Self-Knowledge
I am grateful to be feeling so much today. I have been particularly inspired by learning about Dhyana, or meditation of yoga. It actually brought me to tears this morning and I’ve been in a slow, positive, steady emotional recovery since. I am presently feeling refreshed with appreciation for my own self-knowledge. “…once it has…
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Online Poker
Last Thursday after accidentally eating an entire box of cereal, I headed to McKinney for a Texas Holdem tournament. I was greeted with a plastic party cup topped with home-brew beer and all-you-can-eat bratwurst. After meeting the competition we sat to a kitchen table, paid the entry fee and got to ragging on a guy…
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Burn The Candles
Some gifts you receive and set aside, no matter how special or how mundane they are, because they are gifts that feel “right” to save for the “right” moment. I’m not talking about the annually gifted ugly sweater you have to wear when your great-aunt comes over because she made it. You know these types…
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Negative Feedback
I realize that things had finally spiraled out of control the moment I tore open the sealed envelope labeled RENT to pay for another synthesizer. My collection: Three analog synthesizers, two drum machines, a digital sound sampler, a Nintendo Gameboy that had been transformed into a pattern sequencer,
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Inappropriate Beauty
In an ordinary environment at an inappropriate hour, do we recognize beauty? Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder. Beauty is much more than what meets the eye. It is a quality that satisfy’s. Obvious beauty comes in the form of sunsets and supermodels. There is beauty also in the noise of a…