Archive for the 'Being Present' Category

Encountering the Treasures of Life

Monday, November 26th, 2007

The other day Rebecca and I drove by what looked like a small mound of feathers on the side of the road. We did a quick u-turn, and a moment later we pulled up in front of a rare sight.
“It’s an owl,” Rebecca breathed.
Indeed it was. A little screech-owl, just over six inches […]

Role-Playing Firefly, or ‘Who Am I, Anyway?’

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Playing Crash
A few weeks back, I participated in a Firefly-based live-action role-playing airsoft game. I was Crash. The pilot of a ship that had touched down on a backwater planet to do some smuggling. Around me were many of my friends, but they too had strange names and new roles. We […]

Momentary Wealth

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

You can imagine that there are two ways of moving through life. In the one, we live in a world of fixed ideas, while in the other, we live in a world of pure existence. In the first way, our lives are full of anxiety, because the real world never quite matches up […]