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when I was red…

January 28, 2010
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An item today in The Hindu suggests the way to laughter, which is to look beyond anger to the absurdity of the situation. I glanced at the story and read only the big-lettered nut graf on my way to work and forgot all about the idea when we entered the gate, where, for two months [...]

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back to being Rip…

January 20, 2010
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I’m reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Finding the Flow, along with Natalie Goldberg’s Wild Mind and Tim Robinson’s Stones of Aran. All together: Wild Mind when I wake, Finding the Flow in the car, and Tim Robinson at bedtime. Alain de Botton’s book on the Pleasures and Sorrows of Work arrived from Amazon yesterday, and I’ll open [...]

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the eye and Madurai

January 6, 2010
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I spent an entire day at the Aravind Eye Hospital, founded by Dr. Venkataswamy thirty years ago, and which many say is the second great temple in Madurai. In the book From Here to Nirvana, which is a Lonely Planet kind of guide to ashrams and temples, the Aravind Hospital is one prominent destination. The [...]

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red in my head

November 22, 2009
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This week, on the treadmill, it has been The Who and Janis Joplin. It was Joplin today, and I finished my exertions to the tune of Ball ‘n’ Chain and her messianic advise to stay locked on today, to hang on to the moment. Zen. If I could do what she and zen ask I [...]

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the customer is a baby…

February 8, 2008
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Image via Wikipedia I’ve paid so much more for my tickets to the US, I thought all costs that go to flying a plane have gone up. Not true. I went today with a group of delegates to three plants that make aerospace components and subsystems. All three plants have elaborate programs that lower cost [...]

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A red week in January

January 21, 2007
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Image via Wikipedia They flew red hammer n’ sickle pennants on every vertical object in every major street last week. The pennants are there even now, wilting. They also painted the walls in many colors, some of them after the fashion of some European graffiti I’ve seen (thick tubular letters on collage backgrounds), proclaiming the [...]

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