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08/22/10 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
Every time I try to write about the phenomena of the suburban ghetto I find it so displeasing that I can not write about it. Kurt Vonnegut was writing about the massacre in Dresden during World War II and how it was so horrible that he could not bring himself to write about it. He said it was like Jobes wife who was told by God not to look back at Sodom and Gamora but she looked bach anyway and was turned to salt. Unlike Dresden, there are no bodies of the dead that are in so many pieces that they have to be carried around in wheelbarrows. However in the suburban ghetto I did have friends that committed suicide with heroin and needles and other ways. And then there were those with no visible damage but if spirits were visble you could have seen that they had been blown to pieces.. Now I am only going to move forward and I am not looking back, I do not want to become a pillar of salt. Like Tolstoy realized before he died at the train station, there is a key to life
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08/22/10
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"this the best of all possible worlds" the statement made by Voltaire's Candide while he was being beaten and driven from his home and finally has half his butt eaten by savages. This was my first introduction to deep fiction in high school and it made me want to become a writer but like Cancice I had nothing to write about because I was perfecly oblivious to the realities of life. Life was comfortable in my middle class bubble so even though I was growing up in a suburbia which could be classified as a ghetto of spiritualism, I assumed it was the best of all possible worlds. Now I have wanted to write about this life that seems so twisted where youth have no code to live by , no good examples to measure themselves against, where parents ate sriving to keep up with the Jonses and work two jobs, where schools are somehow supposed to make kids right when they arrive broken, when thet get there and all we can hope is that they find some teacher that cares enough.
Keywords: Candide
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"this the best of all possible worlds" the statement made by Voltaire's Candide while he was being beaten and driven from his home and finally has half his butt eaten by savages. This was my first introduction to deep fiction in high school and it made me want to become a writer but like Cancice I had nothing to write about because I was perfecly oblivious to the realities of life. Life was comfortable in my middle class bubble so even though I was growing up in a suburbia which could be classified as a ghetto of spiritualism, I assumed it was the best of all possible worlds. Now I have wanted to write about this life that seems so twisted where youth have no code to live by , no good examples to measure themselves against, where parents ate sriving to keep up with the Jonses and work two jobs, where schools are somehow supposed to make kids right when they arrive broken, when thet get there and all we can hope is that they find some teacher that cares enough.
Keywords: Candide
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08/21/10 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
one more attempt at developing a future world for a sci-fi novel. I think I have a middle. All I need is a beginning and an end. I have been reading two Science fiction books. The first is Slauchterhouse - Five by Kirt Vonnegut. (the story of war in Dresden and Billy Pilgrim.) He talks about how he outlined his book using a piece of wallpaer and his childen's crayons. Each color represented a different character and he could see how the colors intertwined across the wallpaper. Vonnegutt is insightful 10 to the 13th power. The second book was Space Merchants by Pohl and Kornbloom. In a future world everything is run by advertising agencies and sales is a religion. Most of the world is enslaved by corporations but the upper class few are marketing executives trying to persuade the populace to colonize Venus. The plans are being countered by an undergound organization of conservationists. This book was too real . It was like 1984 come true and it was written probably 50 years ago.
Keywords: Slauchterhouse=5 and Space Merchants
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08/21/10
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"aster chron calender date 583 8:75 3rd sunrise The inhabitants of Triton have voted to shift the ionizatiom to 185 which will result in an orange pigmentation of human skin." Sean turned off his monotizer. This was good news . After six months on Triton, Sean was beginning to overcome the culture shock.. He had gotten accustomed to the three suns. He had adjusted to the metric clocks with i00 seconds,100 minutes and 10 hour days. However , he would never feel comfortable with his new bright blue skin. His color changed after three months of breathing the planets microbes Even though he knew that his skin color would change back after six months on Earth, this color was hard for him to accept, Would he be discriminated agaist for his skin color when he got home? At least orange would be a little closer to his original color. The change to less garvity would be welcome too. He had been intoduced to bright red and blue mushrooms to overcome gravity sickness but he felt like 400 lb's.
Keywords: my fiction novel
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"aster chron calender date 583 8:75 3rd sunrise The inhabitants of Triton have voted to shift the ionizatiom to 185 which will result in an orange pigmentation of human skin." Sean turned off his monotizer. This was good news . After six months on Triton, Sean was beginning to overcome the culture shock.. He had gotten accustomed to the three suns. He had adjusted to the metric clocks with i00 seconds,100 minutes and 10 hour days. However , he would never feel comfortable with his new bright blue skin. His color changed after three months of breathing the planets microbes Even though he knew that his skin color would change back after six months on Earth, this color was hard for him to accept, Would he be discriminated agaist for his skin color when he got home? At least orange would be a little closer to his original color. The change to less garvity would be welcome too. He had been intoduced to bright red and blue mushrooms to overcome gravity sickness but he felt like 400 lb's.
Keywords: my fiction novel
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07/02/10 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
To all my readers out there . All three of you. I took off my science fiction story because it was frustrating me. It just did not jell and when it did I planned to go back and rewrite everything anyhow. In college it usually took four or five rewrites before the word acceptible could be used. The problem is that I now want to write something from the heart, if I have any heart left? I think that I am also a frustrated romantic. Anyway, I have most enjoyed lately what might be called chick flicks and I have been reading The Notebook, after I read Nights in Rodanthe. Am I going downhill? In Nights in Rodanthe (Nicholas Sparks), eveyone in love is either seperated or dies, So why fall in love? It always ends in pain , but maybe we hope , like we romantics often do, that maybe this time it will workout, Maybe love leads to other virtues such as redemption empathy and the general polishing of the heart. One must gain in the exporation and understanding of such things, doesn't one?
Keywords: love,Nights in Rodanthe
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05/22/10
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At thr Goodwill I picked up three of Ian Flemings books (agent 007 stories ) and they may be first Editions , printed in the same year as the Copyrighy. Anyway, call me shallow but travel adventure stories are appealling to me right now. Ian Fleming is a good writer at the least. Thunderball, takes place in the Bahamas and the descriptions of the ocean diving and the island are written well and could only written by someone who knew the islands .My son lived in Jamaica for awhile and he told me that Ian fleming had a home there. There is even a James Bond beach. One wonders why he decided on Jamaica when he had visited many parts of the world, maybe it was the best place for a writer. Hemmingway was fond of the islamds and settled in the Florida Keys. I met a fellow , Abe Feldstein in Houston who was from Puerto Rico, He showed me some pictures of him and Hemmingway drinking in a Cuban bar before the revolution.Thunderball really made me want to go live on a Carribean island ..
Keywords: Ian Fleming Thunderball
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At thr Goodwill I picked up three of Ian Flemings books (agent 007 stories ) and they may be first Editions , printed in the same year as the Copyrighy. Anyway, call me shallow but travel adventure stories are appealling to me right now. Ian Fleming is a good writer at the least. Thunderball, takes place in the Bahamas and the descriptions of the ocean diving and the island are written well and could only written by someone who knew the islands .My son lived in Jamaica for awhile and he told me that Ian fleming had a home there. There is even a James Bond beach. One wonders why he decided on Jamaica when he had visited many parts of the world, maybe it was the best place for a writer. Hemmingway was fond of the islamds and settled in the Florida Keys. I met a fellow , Abe Feldstein in Houston who was from Puerto Rico, He showed me some pictures of him and Hemmingway drinking in a Cuban bar before the revolution.Thunderball really made me want to go live on a Carribean island ..
Keywords: Ian Fleming Thunderball
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05/10/10 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
I found a place to live but I have to comute from north to south Atlanta for two weeks. Commuting is insane enough but commuting in a car with marginal tires, a tendency to overheat, transmision and oil leaks and whatever else is hidden in a car with a190,000 miles, is at times frightening. I got this car after my son hit a horse. Then he blew a head gasket and I replaced the gasket (no small job) and the radiator. Then the water pump blew and busted the radiator. Another 200.00 in parts However the car still runs and I must say that I like this Nissan Altima and though it came to me by chance and would not have been my first choice, being a VW conniseur, an Altima was bought with low mileage would be a good purchase. As for appearances, imagine a car with leprosy , missing two hubcaps, with a big dent from a horse(possibly a unicorn, who hits a horse?) and missing a side miiror, possibly still imbedded in a unicorn. Image, Harry Potter knealing beside a unicorn, must be Voldemort
Keywords: cars
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04/27/10
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I think my life is getting better but this has been a crazy week. First , the house I am living in is being forclosed on so I have to leave by the end of the month. The good news is that I do not own the house. The bad news is that another person in the house was letting me use the computer and TV but they took them with them. More bad news , the radiator on my car started leaking. Good news , my son loaned me his car for the day, so I am at the library updating my internet business on the public computer. Bad news , I missed two days of work and I still have not heard from the radiator shop. Good news , with no Tv or computer , I started making pottery again , specifically Japanese hand carved tea cups. I am going to experiment with glazes but I have to find someone to cook them to cone 9 or 10. I bought three colors teal black and white. Good news , I have been working six days a week and will get paid Friday. Bad news , I will probably spend it all on renting a new place.
Keywords: life
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I think my life is getting better but this has been a crazy week. First , the house I am living in is being forclosed on so I have to leave by the end of the month. The good news is that I do not own the house. The bad news is that another person in the house was letting me use the computer and TV but they took them with them. More bad news , the radiator on my car started leaking. Good news , my son loaned me his car for the day, so I am at the library updating my internet business on the public computer. Bad news , I missed two days of work and I still have not heard from the radiator shop. Good news , with no Tv or computer , I started making pottery again , specifically Japanese hand carved tea cups. I am going to experiment with glazes but I have to find someone to cook them to cone 9 or 10. I bought three colors teal black and white. Good news , I have been working six days a week and will get paid Friday. Bad news , I will probably spend it all on renting a new place.
Keywords: life
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02/11/10 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
However, until the student goes through the process of playing the game and making the wrong moves, he has learned nothing. Sometimes a person has an idea for a small business. He thinks if I work hard and follow my dreams, then I will be a success. However, he has not learned through experience that even in a very small business, one is playing against the big boys and instead of memorizing a book on becoming an entrepeneur , he should have been practicing the art of war. The stakes of working for oneself are much larger than they seem and that is why so few acheive success. Most are forced out of game before they have barely gotten started. Those that are not flexible and willing change or learn by making mistakes will be the first ones to leave the game. Some say that it takes money to make money but that is only partly true as Terry Allen shows in no NO MONEY ,NO FEAR. in each business venture he recounts, he also points out the ptfalls along the way.
Keywords: No cas No Fear
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02/11/10
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"Education is a Process" -Jerome Bruner I read a book recently titled ,NO CASH, NO FEAR by Terry F. Allen and in this book he tells his life story which is a series of stories about starting small businesses and at the end of each story he summarizes what went wrong and what he learned. His point was that anyone in business can at some time have a failure or just break even but it is not a failure if one considers it a process of learning. I found this book very honest and endearing and having gone through a few business failures I could really identify with the some of the stories. Unfotunately, in business experience counts. A student can't just memorize this stuff in business school ,one has to do it to learn it. Take a chess game for instance. Our educational system would have students memorize the different pieces and what they do. they would memorize all the moves on the Chessboard and then they would be given a test in which they would regergitate all this information.
Keywords: No Cash,no fear
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"Education is a Process" -Jerome Bruner I read a book recently titled ,NO CASH, NO FEAR by Terry F. Allen and in this book he tells his life story which is a series of stories about starting small businesses and at the end of each story he summarizes what went wrong and what he learned. His point was that anyone in business can at some time have a failure or just break even but it is not a failure if one considers it a process of learning. I found this book very honest and endearing and having gone through a few business failures I could really identify with the some of the stories. Unfotunately, in business experience counts. A student can't just memorize this stuff in business school ,one has to do it to learn it. Take a chess game for instance. Our educational system would have students memorize the different pieces and what they do. they would memorize all the moves on the Chessboard and then they would be given a test in which they would regergitate all this information.
Keywords: No Cash,no fear
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01/30/10 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
The alternative world on the planet Triton is really a future world where the inhabitants both control nature and try to live in harmony with it. I am taking the idea from the Bahai writings that mankind has the duty to carry on the advancement of civilization. Obviously that advancement relies heavily on technology which at least gives the appearance that man is in control of nature but if this technology is not tempered with the other half of the equation,religion, then mankind might create its own demise. C.S. Lewis combines several religions and philosophies and comes up with what he calls the Tao. Most of it sounds very similar to the Bahai teachings but that makes sense because the essence of all religion is the same. Every religion has a similar statement , "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' C. S. Lewis also writes about the importance of divine attributes and discusses education or the lack of it when society's values are not clear. I will be reading more C.S
Keywords: C. S. Lewis
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01/30/10
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Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. —Mere Christianity I picked up a book by C.S Lewis titled THE ABOLITION OF MAN (1943) and I put this quote in from another of his books because I have been writing about religion and reality. It is also interesting that he wrote science fiction and fantasy. Frankly, some of this book was hard to understand but one section on how nature could not be controlled by man was interesting. He explains that usually our attempts to control nature lead to men controlling other men. Then I read parts of BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley (1930sabout a future world where men manipulate human embryos.
Keywords: abolition of man,brave new world
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Reality, in fact, is usually something you could not have guessed. That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed. If it offered us just the kind of universe we had always expected, I should feel we were making it up. But, in fact, it is not the sort of thing anyone would have made up. It has just that queer twist about it that real things have. —Mere Christianity I picked up a book by C.S Lewis titled THE ABOLITION OF MAN (1943) and I put this quote in from another of his books because I have been writing about religion and reality. It is also interesting that he wrote science fiction and fantasy. Frankly, some of this book was hard to understand but one section on how nature could not be controlled by man was interesting. He explains that usually our attempts to control nature lead to men controlling other men. Then I read parts of BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley (1930sabout a future world where men manipulate human embryos.
Keywords: abolition of man,brave new world
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A Thousand Splendid Suns As an American I can say that I do not know enough about the culture of Afghanistan. For this reason alone I found that Kite Runner ( which I liked more ) and this book are important. A Thousand Splendid Suns tracks the lives of two women whose fates are intertwined but we do not know this until the last half of the book. The author takes a long time to build the characters and get to point of the story. However, the book will reward you if you stick with it At times the reader wants to lay this book down because it is hard to imagine how people can live in these conditions. Tribal wars, then the war with the communists followed by the injustices of the Taliban, this book tracks it all through the lives of its characters. Houseni is a very good writer and I enjoyed these books.
Keywords: A Thousand Splendid Suns
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10/21/09
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{Rap} Lemurs learning lessons blend bling Words bleeding and blemished. {My Bad} Wall St.renders a little bit Lenders into lifeless lithos Of linoleum landfills leaking. Garden Rosa of Ria Dosa So tender an aroma Lemon smells of ginger Beats tortillas into splendor. Tamales, margaritas and Dos Equis.
Keywords: rap,my bad
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{Rap} Lemurs learning lessons blend bling Words bleeding and blemished. {My Bad} Wall St.renders a little bit Lenders into lifeless lithos Of linoleum landfills leaking. Garden Rosa of Ria Dosa So tender an aroma Lemon smells of ginger Beats tortillas into splendor. Tamales, margaritas and Dos Equis.
Keywords: rap,my bad
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09/27/09 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
I was reading drippy1's post on CMI .Visualization is great and I wish him the most success. But I have reservations about wanting a big office and makeing a pile of money. Acheivments are great as long as God comes first. My visualization is to acquie spiritual attributes and if wealth should come my way, be so detached that I could walk away from it any time I wanted to It is a rare and wonderful thing to see the virtue of detachment in someone and maybe I have only seen it a couple of times in my life. I started a businees that a friend of mine named ,told me about a saying in the Middle East , "The potter always drinks from a cracked cup" This is similar to the saying that the coblers children always have holes in their shoes. Only there are other meanings that are far deeper. Omar Khayam wrote a poem about how we should fill our cup with the good things in life because soon the cup will be turned over and return to clay or dust. We are all made of dust shaped by the potter
Keywords: the potter's cup
Lifebooks: spirituality
08/03/09
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Today I was thinking about getting out of my humdrum life and going to visit Mexico. I have a number of good reasons to visit. First I want to finish learning Spanish I need to be in a situation where I am forced to use it. Secondly i want to spend some time on the pacific ocean. I surfed Laguna Beach and Huntington when I was younger and I want to surf again before I get too old. Then I thought wouldn't it be nice to have an Inn or Cafe at the end of the universe or more specifically in a village on the coast of Mexico where friends could drop in when they wanted a retreat. Escondido looked pretty good in a surfer magazine but I want to look around before I decide . Now I need to make a plan to visit next summer. Maybe I should start taking Spanish classes or get a passport. Maybe I could live in Mexico in the summer and work here the rest of the year. maybe an import export business could provide some tax deductions for the trip? I definitely want to visit Mata Ortiz or CasasGrandes
Keywords: getting away
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Today I was thinking about getting out of my humdrum life and going to visit Mexico. I have a number of good reasons to visit. First I want to finish learning Spanish I need to be in a situation where I am forced to use it. Secondly i want to spend some time on the pacific ocean. I surfed Laguna Beach and Huntington when I was younger and I want to surf again before I get too old. Then I thought wouldn't it be nice to have an Inn or Cafe at the end of the universe or more specifically in a village on the coast of Mexico where friends could drop in when they wanted a retreat. Escondido looked pretty good in a surfer magazine but I want to look around before I decide . Now I need to make a plan to visit next summer. Maybe I should start taking Spanish classes or get a passport. Maybe I could live in Mexico in the summer and work here the rest of the year. maybe an import export business could provide some tax deductions for the trip? I definitely want to visit Mata Ortiz or CasasGrandes
Keywords: getting away
Lifebooks: relationships
07/18/09 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
I took off some of my Sci-fi stories because a few of the characters and events were real and I am not that negative about relationships most of the time. Eventually I would have portrayed characters that were happ yin relationship. They would test the theory that a man and woman could be helpmates under all circumstancesand beccome so close as to read each others thoughts and at some point merge as one person.
Keywords: sci fi stories
Lifebooks: relationships
03/25/09
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To correct a previous post. I started reading Outliers tonight and the magic number of hours to be successful is 10,000 hours or aprox. 10 years not 30,000 that I had written before. Other factors for an Outlier are culture, community , opportunity. and surprisingly genius does not play as large a role. I suppose Edison was right when he said it was 98 % perspiration and 2% inspiration. and if Edison had been born a few years earlier or later it might have been a different story and also look at the group he surrounded himself with. They were coming up with major inventions every 6 months. Another thing I need to correct is the pessimistic coment that only 2%of the global population is searching for spiritual truth. I was alittle down when I wrote that , loosing faith in humanity due to personal circumstances. However, I believe this is a new day, and ultimately though not without stuggle, mankind is in for a glorious time. Already the seeds of a new springtime are sprouting.
Keywords: Outliers,Edison,New springtime
Lifebooks: spirituality
To correct a previous post. I started reading Outliers tonight and the magic number of hours to be successful is 10,000 hours or aprox. 10 years not 30,000 that I had written before. Other factors for an Outlier are culture, community , opportunity. and surprisingly genius does not play as large a role. I suppose Edison was right when he said it was 98 % perspiration and 2% inspiration. and if Edison had been born a few years earlier or later it might have been a different story and also look at the group he surrounded himself with. They were coming up with major inventions every 6 months. Another thing I need to correct is the pessimistic coment that only 2%of the global population is searching for spiritual truth. I was alittle down when I wrote that , loosing faith in humanity due to personal circumstances. However, I believe this is a new day, and ultimately though not without stuggle, mankind is in for a glorious time. Already the seeds of a new springtime are sprouting.
Keywords: Outliers,Edison,New springtime
Lifebooks: spirituality
03/24/09 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
The stock market went way up yesterday and I only wish I had bought some stock. Its not too late and maybe I will get some on the next big downturn. Like a lot of people I am living from paycheck to paycheck , but Irealize the importance of setting aside 10% for investment. I work very hard for my money so I need to think about passive income such as didvidends and associate programs on the web. I do not trust pyramid schemes, but some of the associate programs are legit even if the returns are small. The idea is to start a pump by using other peoples' money.If it is successful I will put it in my book. I am beginning to see the form of the book but I have to put it into practice and then make a small nest egg and then i will retire to a tropical island. When I post onto this site from Tonga , Tahiti or even Hawaii , you will know I was successful. This is how I visualize spiritual economics, teaching from success in the tropics. Relaxing under a palm tree after a day of surfing.
Keywords: tropical island,passive income
Lifebooks: spirituality
03/19/09
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This law or truth is based on sacrifice. So, conversely, those who acquire wealth by luck or scheming are not likely to keep it very long. I have heard that there are many lottery winners who not only became miserable with their new found wealth but also go bankrupt. Abdul Baha said something like," money was like the sand that blows around in the desert." Great fortunes can be blown in a persons direction but fortunes can easily be lost when the wind is blowing the other way. Examples of those who have had their fortunes cut in half by the recent economic downturn are everywhere. The spiritualist should be content in poverty or wealth by knowing that these cycles are a part of life.
Keywords: wealth
Lifebooks: spirituality
This law or truth is based on sacrifice. So, conversely, those who acquire wealth by luck or scheming are not likely to keep it very long. I have heard that there are many lottery winners who not only became miserable with their new found wealth but also go bankrupt. Abdul Baha said something like," money was like the sand that blows around in the desert." Great fortunes can be blown in a persons direction but fortunes can easily be lost when the wind is blowing the other way. Examples of those who have had their fortunes cut in half by the recent economic downturn are everywhere. The spiritualist should be content in poverty or wealth by knowing that these cycles are a part of life.
Keywords: wealth
Lifebooks: spirituality
03/19/09 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
There are many spiritual laws on this planet which are just as concrete as physical laws such as the earth revolves around the sun. In fact, every physical thing has a transcendent spiritual meaning. Water represents spirituality, for there is no life without it . A drop of water falls off a leaf, joins a trickle of water that runs into a stream, which becomes a river that eventually flows into the ocean, the symbol of unity and the knowledge of God. However, with humanity being surrounded by spirituality, my guess is that at any given time 2% of the global population is open to searching for spiritual truths. Apply spiritual principles to work and careers and another law seems to take shape. I think this was addressed in the book Outliers which I have not read but it goes something like this. A person is entitled to wealth when he/she masters their given trade, whether it be a science , art or craft. His research reveals a reqired estimate of 30.000 hours
Keywords: outliers
Lifebooks: spirituality
03/19/09
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I have posted ideas about spiritual economics at times when news of scandals in government and on Wall St. have compelled me to write. I am glad to see that the situation may be getting better but health and order will not be forthcoming in our society until indviduals realign themselves with the reality of man and the realities of creation. Man is a spiritual being as well as a material being. The progression of our lives should be from the material to the spiritual. Now it would be easy to acquire spiritual attributes by becoming a monk, retiring from society and living in a cave meditating and reading the various religious revelations. However, the only way for society to benefit from individuals who are breaking through the veils of this material world is for those folks to get married , raise famililies and have careers. The trick is to be in the world and not of it, to be continually aspiring to the infinite and applying it to the finite. This requires work and action.
Keywords: careers detachment
Lifebooks: spirituality
I have posted ideas about spiritual economics at times when news of scandals in government and on Wall St. have compelled me to write. I am glad to see that the situation may be getting better but health and order will not be forthcoming in our society until indviduals realign themselves with the reality of man and the realities of creation. Man is a spiritual being as well as a material being. The progression of our lives should be from the material to the spiritual. Now it would be easy to acquire spiritual attributes by becoming a monk, retiring from society and living in a cave meditating and reading the various religious revelations. However, the only way for society to benefit from individuals who are breaking through the veils of this material world is for those folks to get married , raise famililies and have careers. The trick is to be in the world and not of it, to be continually aspiring to the infinite and applying it to the finite. This requires work and action.
Keywords: careers detachment
Lifebooks: spirituality
03/13/09 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
Obviously spelling is not one of my better skills. I meant to say Muhammad Yunus at the Grameen Bank. I just looked it up under www.grameen america .com and it appears to be thriving. .
Keywords: Muhammad Yunus,Grameen bank
Lifebooks: careers
03/12/09
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Starting to write a book using a few of the ideas posted on this site. It will have many pictures for visual learners. The book will be nonfiction and the purpose will be to support micro or smaller than micro businesses. In other words, I want to compile information and practices that will help give the spiritual entrepreneur some fredom to pursue a meaningful career or to participate in our capitalistic system. The idea is to compile all the useful information on spiritual economics in one place. Ethics and character education should be a priority in defining spiritual. Working independently(maybe in teams and with consultation but maximizing spiritual freedoms) with small capital outlays should receive priority in defining economics. I remember being turned down by banks because my business plan did not require a big enough loan. This does not make sense and the Grahemme bank seems to confirm my analysis. How this bank is doing in the US is the first place to start the research.
Keywords: spiritual economics
Lifebooks: careers
Starting to write a book using a few of the ideas posted on this site. It will have many pictures for visual learners. The book will be nonfiction and the purpose will be to support micro or smaller than micro businesses. In other words, I want to compile information and practices that will help give the spiritual entrepreneur some fredom to pursue a meaningful career or to participate in our capitalistic system. The idea is to compile all the useful information on spiritual economics in one place. Ethics and character education should be a priority in defining spiritual. Working independently(maybe in teams and with consultation but maximizing spiritual freedoms) with small capital outlays should receive priority in defining economics. I remember being turned down by banks because my business plan did not require a big enough loan. This does not make sense and the Grahemme bank seems to confirm my analysis. How this bank is doing in the US is the first place to start the research.
Keywords: spiritual economics
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Another thing that bothers me with my limited understanding of economics is that Cramer on Mad Money talks about the destruction of wealth. It seems to me that wealth in America is material things; structures, technology.food ,shelter clothing and also our human potential. Destroying wealth is like trying to destroy energy or matter. Nothing is lost, it just changes form. As far as I can tell, all our stuff and potential are still there but according to the news ,we have lost trillions. How strange, in the past we had wars where trillions (a guess in todays money) of dollars in destruction actually took place but World War II was supposed to have stimulated the economy. Does the destruction of wealth only take place when we lose employment? I do not believe that increasing the military is the answer to solving the economic problems. Therefore, we need to find non-military options that would provide employment on a scale equal to WWII.
Keywords: economics
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03/11/09
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Today I was reading Kurt Vonnegut's Jailbird and I came across a paragraph where he describes the end of the Great Depresion and the beginnings of WWII when suddenly there was this great infusion of money and people who had previuosly had to repair their shoes with cardboard were all of a sudden showing signs of wealth. I thought with all the headlines on Madoff and Stanford this was a particularly interesting quote, "I am now moved to suppose ,with my primitive understanding of economics, that every successful government is of necessity a Ponzi scheme." Even though I want to beleive that the stock market has hit bottom, a dark thought crosses my mind. If Madoff could keep a Ponzi scheme going since the 1960's, couldn't the government keep one going since the 1940's. A Ponzi scheme is when the borrower creates debt to pay off other debts never intending to pay the original debt and when the borrower can print money, then the Ponzi scheme never ends unless there is a paper shortage.
Keywords: Great Depresion,Vonnegut,government,Madoff
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Today I was reading Kurt Vonnegut's Jailbird and I came across a paragraph where he describes the end of the Great Depresion and the beginnings of WWII when suddenly there was this great infusion of money and people who had previuosly had to repair their shoes with cardboard were all of a sudden showing signs of wealth. I thought with all the headlines on Madoff and Stanford this was a particularly interesting quote, "I am now moved to suppose ,with my primitive understanding of economics, that every successful government is of necessity a Ponzi scheme." Even though I want to beleive that the stock market has hit bottom, a dark thought crosses my mind. If Madoff could keep a Ponzi scheme going since the 1960's, couldn't the government keep one going since the 1940's. A Ponzi scheme is when the borrower creates debt to pay off other debts never intending to pay the original debt and when the borrower can print money, then the Ponzi scheme never ends unless there is a paper shortage.
Keywords: Great Depresion,Vonnegut,government,Madoff
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Today is a beautiful spring day. Spring is for new beginnings and renewal. I have been thinking a lot about spiritual economics and I read a book called the spiritual entrepreneur and it seems to be on the right track but I am a little concerned that it recomends pyramid maketing. Sometimes one has to look at the best characteristics of a book or person and accept it because it is 90% right and it is inovative. I know Jim Cramer is not always right on Mad Money but he often has a new point of view that is worthwhile and that is why I recomend his book. I do not like it when he becomes too political but i understand that polotics effects the market . Likewise , if a markewting scheme helps good people to free up time to help others then maybe it has merit. I googled spiritual economics and found a few good web sites. the ones explaining the Bahai teachings were helpful and so were a few others. I do not care for most of the new wave, psychics and charging for what should be free.
Keywords: spiritual economics
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03/03/09
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OK lets all hold hands sing kumbuya and talk about how love will keep us out of the Great Depresion 2 --- Not . We are not supposed to use that word . So I will call it the melting ice cream sandwich. Have you ever noticed how fast an ice cream sandwich melts in the heat . I think we are already in the ice cream sandwich and we are headed for the bannana split. The problem is that things are happening so quickly, its hard to take steps to offset the impact. For sure, not acting and holding fast is to go down with the ship. The problem is that most of us have never experienced life after an economic meltdown so we do not know how to react. Should we move back to a farm and raise food, or go into real estate and stock brokering and take advantage of assets on the cheap/ Maybe one would be better of moving to a third world country and living in a grass hut . We definitely need to find solutions which include helping each other in these difficult times. Communities will be redefined.
Keywords: Great Depresion 2
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OK lets all hold hands sing kumbuya and talk about how love will keep us out of the Great Depresion 2 --- Not . We are not supposed to use that word . So I will call it the melting ice cream sandwich. Have you ever noticed how fast an ice cream sandwich melts in the heat . I think we are already in the ice cream sandwich and we are headed for the bannana split. The problem is that things are happening so quickly, its hard to take steps to offset the impact. For sure, not acting and holding fast is to go down with the ship. The problem is that most of us have never experienced life after an economic meltdown so we do not know how to react. Should we move back to a farm and raise food, or go into real estate and stock brokering and take advantage of assets on the cheap/ Maybe one would be better of moving to a third world country and living in a grass hut . We definitely need to find solutions which include helping each other in these difficult times. Communities will be redefined.
Keywords: Great Depresion 2
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02/24/09 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
Last wekend I went to the flea market in order to buy books to sell online. One vendor cleaned houses and was given a truck load of books. I bought them all for 35.00 and proceeded to sort them by genre. There were many hardcover Sci-Fi ,Romance novels and Mysteries. As I was sorting them into different categories, people started walking up and buying them. I decided to sell some for 25 cents because there were more than I could fit into my car. By the time I left I had gotten all my money back and still barely had room to move after I filled my car. Unfotunately the online bookselling has not gone so well . For instance, there was a stack of John Grisholm books but Amazon probably already has 10,000 listed for sale. So, I think I will donate most of these books and in the future I will be very selective. I already mentioned my interest in how to books but there seems to be interest in self help, and religious also. One other area would be first edition books by truly great authors.
Keywords: online bookselling
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02/24/09
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I started selling how to books on Ebay a couple of years ago. I have had employment in businesses where coworkers would not teach or train new employees because they want to keep information to themselves to maintain power. Empoyees had to pay on a very long learning curve to get information they really did not need in the first place. This seemed backwards and an impediment to people trying to find fulfilling work. So I always look for books (sometimes DVDs) where the author wants to share insider information. The right information can be more valuable than money. Look at all the corporations that lost fortunes by going into foreign markets where they did not understand the culture and broke cultural taboos. I love books and I was thinking of expanding my online bookselling when the economy tanked. In this market one has to be very selective about what books to buy. However there has never been a better time to sell books that will help people make money.
Keywords: online bookselling
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I started selling how to books on Ebay a couple of years ago. I have had employment in businesses where coworkers would not teach or train new employees because they want to keep information to themselves to maintain power. Empoyees had to pay on a very long learning curve to get information they really did not need in the first place. This seemed backwards and an impediment to people trying to find fulfilling work. So I always look for books (sometimes DVDs) where the author wants to share insider information. The right information can be more valuable than money. Look at all the corporations that lost fortunes by going into foreign markets where they did not understand the culture and broke cultural taboos. I love books and I was thinking of expanding my online bookselling when the economy tanked. In this market one has to be very selective about what books to buy. However there has never been a better time to sell books that will help people make money.
Keywords: online bookselling
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02/23/09 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
I went to see the movie Yes Man the other night, mostly because it was ar the dollar theatre. It was an upbeat movie and humorous too. Just what we need these days. Jim Carey played a loan officer who always said yes,even to very small loans and he became personal freinds with the people he loaned to. He had a 98 % payback on his loans. This sounds a lot like the Graheme bank started by Muhamad Yusuf. (see past post) Basically the movie was about opening oneself up to opportunity. I do not remember an exact quote but I read in a Kurt Vonnegut book that one should never refuse an invitation because it might be that one event ,that one meeting that fulfils a persons destiny. Herman Hess wrote a great deal about destiny and I really liked his books. Demian, Narcisus and Goldman, and Sid Arthur are a few that come to mind. I have had a rough couple of years and I am ready to live life again to the fullest. Maybe I wil take a photography class,repair my Vespa, take a trip to Europe-YES
Keywords: Yes,Jim Carey,Kurt vonnegut,Herman Hess
Lifebooks: careers
02/23/09
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Yesterday I found a new book in the business section of Barnes and Noble about the Code of the West and how it should be applied to Wall Street. It seems that people are beginning to realize that we lack a code to live by and that is how we got into this mess. I wrote in a previous post about the Code of the West but did not elaberate on it like this book does. Nice pictures of cowboy life too. However the solution is spiritual economics and I do not think the old Western code is up to the task. The old code was never written down. Second, it does not lay out a global plan and third it had a few mcho flws init. Still, a code is better than no code.
Keywords: Code of the West,Spiritual Economics
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Yesterday I found a new book in the business section of Barnes and Noble about the Code of the West and how it should be applied to Wall Street. It seems that people are beginning to realize that we lack a code to live by and that is how we got into this mess. I wrote in a previous post about the Code of the West but did not elaberate on it like this book does. Nice pictures of cowboy life too. However the solution is spiritual economics and I do not think the old Western code is up to the task. The old code was never written down. Second, it does not lay out a global plan and third it had a few mcho flws init. Still, a code is better than no code.
Keywords: Code of the West,Spiritual Economics
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01/30/09 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
In the design classes,I learned to work with a lot of different materials. It is important to know the material , to know its limitations and attributes. What happened was that I decided not lto limit my work by just working in one medium although I did get pretty good at making jewelry, I could not make a living at it ,but it was nver about the money anyhow. Maybe I am just ADHD but I think there is a method to my madness. There is not enough time in life to learn everything and although I am a fair potter and wood worker where I probably am best is at deigning metal projects . So I see makinfg a kife out of steel as a culmination of experiece. i aso work on cars, watck and clock movements and I want to design watch cases out of metal. I am accumulating metal working equipment and that is where my time has been spent. As an educator I really beleive that creativity is a culmination of experience.,, so we shall see.
Keywords: metal working,design
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01/30/09
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In the design classes,I learned to work with a lot of different materials. It is important to know the material , to know its limitations and attributes. What happened was that I decided not lto limit my work by just working in one medium although I did get pretty good at making jewelry, I could not make a living at it ,but it was nver about the money anyhow. Maybe I am just ADHD but I think there is a method to my madness. There is not enough time in life to learn everything and although I am a fair potter and wood worker where I probably am best is at deigning metal projects . So I see makinfg a kife out of steel as a culmination of experiece. i aso work on cars, watck and clock movements and I want to design watch cases out of metal. I am accumulating metal working equipment and that is where my time has been spent. As an educator I really beleive that creativity is a culmination of experience.,, so we shall see.
Keywords: metal working,design
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In the design classes,I learned to work with a lot of different materials. It is important to know the material , to know its limitations and attributes. What happened was that I decided not lto limit my work by just working in one medium although I did get pretty good at making jewelry, I could not make a living at it ,but it was nver about the money anyhow. Maybe I am just ADHD but I think there is a method to my madness. There is not enough time in life to learn everything and although I am a fair potter and wood worker where I probably am best is at deigning metal projects . So I see makinfg a kife out of steel as a culmination of experiece. i aso work on cars, watck and clock movements and I want to design watch cases out of metal. I am accumulating metal working equipment and that is where my time has been spent. As an educator I really beleive that creativity is a culmination of experience.,, so we shall see.
Keywords: metal working,design
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Once again I got sidetracked. My first projext of making Japanese pottery was put aside because I became interested in takintg up metalsmithing again. It all started when my son asked for a pocket knife. I started looking through a catalogue and noticed a knife with an inlaid turquoise handle. What one fool can do,another can, so I decided to make a pocket knife and also to do some wood carving. I ordered some burl walnut for handles and Iam going to buy a couple of books on the subject. I will get back to the pottery and I will find time to post all this to my website but here is the storry. After watching native American siversmithing in New Mexico. I took up the craft and I wanted to be the best I enrolled in a class at museum school in Houston. All I wanted to do was create silver pieces, but the teacher wanted everyone to learn design.So I had to wait through a year of design until we worked on metals.
Keywords: metal smithing
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01/30/09
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Once again I got sidetracked. My first projext of making Japanese pottery was put aside because I became interested in takintg up metalsmithing again. It all started when my son asked for a pocket knife. I started looking through a catalogue and noticed a knife with an inlaid turquoise handle. What one fool can do,another can, so I decided to make a pocket knife and also to do some wood carving. I ordered some burl walnut for handles and Iam going to buy a couple of books on the subject. I will get back to the pottery and I will find time to post all this to my website but here is the storry. After watching native American siversmithing in New Mexico. I took up the craft and I wanted to be the best I enrolled in a class at museum school in Houston. All I wanted to do was create silver pieces, but the teacher wanted everyone to learn design.So I had to wait through a year of design until we worked on metals.
Keywords: metal smithing
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Once again I got sidetracked. My first projext of making Japanese pottery was put aside because I became interested in takintg up metalsmithing again. It all started when my son asked for a pocket knife. I started looking through a catalogue and noticed a knife with an inlaid turquoise handle. What one fool can do,another can, so I decided to make a pocket knife and also to do some wood carving. I ordered some burl walnut for handles and Iam going to buy a couple of books on the subject. I will get back to the pottery and I will find time to post all this to my website but here is the storry. After watching native American siversmithing in New Mexico. I took up the craft and I wanted to be the best I enrolled in a class at museum school in Houston. All I wanted to do was create silver pieces, but the teacher wanted everyone to learn design.So I had to wait through a year of design until we worked on metals.
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01/26/09 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
.I wrote in an earlier post that I would come back to the theme of spiritual economics. Well, tonight I went to Barnes and Noble and picked up a copy of A world Without poverty by Muhamed Yusuf and he proved the point that I was trying to make that the only solution to the worlds problems is a spiritual solution. He won the Nobel Peace prize for his idea on microcredit and setting up the Graheme bank. .His book exposes the banking system as a hindrance to social progress. I loved this book for its honesty and its keen observation. I am going to buy it and put it in my website for less than what I pay for it.
Keywords: poverty,banks,capitalism
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12/04/08
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I was at a middle school this week and every morning over the intercom they announce," Failure is not an option.' I started thinking about that and wouldn't it be better to announce that '"Success is our destiny." but the real problem is that there is always going to be failure as well as success in life. In these hard economic times there are going to be a lot of failures. Just ask the people at GM or Lehman Bros. However, here is an area where we can all be successful. First do not beat yourself up about failures and just start over. Secondly, guilt and anxiety are clouds that cover the heart. In a society where writers and poets question the very survival of the soul, sometimes it is necesary to purge and cleanse off the dross. I prefer to be like Dylan Thomas ,,"rage against the dying of the light" not like the characters in The Wasteland or Metmorphosis . One dies with a whimper and the other turns into a cockroach and slithers under the table to hide.
Keywords: Dylan Thomas,T.S. Eliot,success
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I was at a middle school this week and every morning over the intercom they announce," Failure is not an option.' I started thinking about that and wouldn't it be better to announce that '"Success is our destiny." but the real problem is that there is always going to be failure as well as success in life. In these hard economic times there are going to be a lot of failures. Just ask the people at GM or Lehman Bros. However, here is an area where we can all be successful. First do not beat yourself up about failures and just start over. Secondly, guilt and anxiety are clouds that cover the heart. In a society where writers and poets question the very survival of the soul, sometimes it is necesary to purge and cleanse off the dross. I prefer to be like Dylan Thomas ,,"rage against the dying of the light" not like the characters in The Wasteland or Metmorphosis . One dies with a whimper and the other turns into a cockroach and slithers under the table to hide.
Keywords: Dylan Thomas,T.S. Eliot,success
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11/21/08 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
In the future arts and sciences will proliferate and there will be a flowering of a new renaisance. Workers will have more freedoms and time for leisure. In order to take into account the missed days that that are often taken from work, employers will create "soul day" which can be used for any reason, anytime but should be used to replenish the soul or do good for others. The side effect of a well ordered world will be that crime and domestic abuse are dramatically reduced. Homelessness and starvation nolonger exist. In the future, relics from the present day will be abstracted from excavations. Archeologists will exclaim as they uncover political memorabillia,"look, I found records from the barbarians of the 21st century."
Keywords: archeology
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11/21/08
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Invision the world in the not too distant future and here are some probable outcomes. Skin color will be moving towards a light mocha. Travel from one country to another will be as easy as traveling between states. The hassles with language , money exchange and passports will no longer exist. There will be a universal currency and auxillary language. The global economy will be run by an international board and resources such as oil will be regulated and fairly distributed. Dependence on oil is is no longer a problem because everything,including cars, runs on electricity made from renewable resources-wind, solar, geothermal,and biomass. The military will be compsed of two thousand troops from every country but there will be no renegade nations because the risk of having the entire world oppose them would be too great. Money that was once spent on oil and the miltary is being used for things like education , healthcare and magnificently architected cities.
Keywords: future world
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Invision the world in the not too distant future and here are some probable outcomes. Skin color will be moving towards a light mocha. Travel from one country to another will be as easy as traveling between states. The hassles with language , money exchange and passports will no longer exist. There will be a universal currency and auxillary language. The global economy will be run by an international board and resources such as oil will be regulated and fairly distributed. Dependence on oil is is no longer a problem because everything,including cars, runs on electricity made from renewable resources-wind, solar, geothermal,and biomass. The military will be compsed of two thousand troops from every country but there will be no renegade nations because the risk of having the entire world oppose them would be too great. Money that was once spent on oil and the miltary is being used for things like education , healthcare and magnificently architected cities.
Keywords: future world
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11/18/08 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
I have witnessed many historical events that I thought would not take place in my lifetime. One event would have been the tearing down of the Berlin wall . Another would have been the election of an African American to the Presidential office. However, the one event that I would really like to see is the coming together of the leaders of all nations to sit down to the table and draw up plans for world peace. Recently it occurred to me that this economic crisis miight just be the beginning of a whole new unified world. Traditionally it has taken huge calamities to form even rudimentary systems for global unity. The first plan was put forth by Woodrow Wilson after the war to end all wars. Witness the League of Nations which led to the United Nations which still does not have the power to bring about world peace. It seems that organizations which promote world unity with high ideals are slow to act but organizations which form unities which effect the pocket book are quickly accepted.
Keywords: IMF,World Bank,UN,Common Market
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11/12/08
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I am now ready to write about relationships .I am on shaky ground because of two failed marriages and I really feel like I will never understand the opposite sex. I saw a Woody Allen movie last night and he said, "A relationship is like a shark, it has to keep going forward to survive. What we have here is a dead shark." Right now that makes a lot of sense to me. Also, I am pretty sure that relationships can be measured by their depth. Two shallow people should not have a chance at a successful raltionship and yet I know many shallow people who are happy in their relationships. Maybe a shallow person has more tolerance for the flaws of his/her mate. What if one person is shallow and the other has depth which is the most likely scenario because everyone changes within a relationship? Something else to ponder is karma. If one person has bad karma, does the other one share it when they become mates ? What of the roles that different sexes play? And what of love?
Keywords: love marriage and a baby carriage
Lifebooks: relationships
I am now ready to write about relationships .I am on shaky ground because of two failed marriages and I really feel like I will never understand the opposite sex. I saw a Woody Allen movie last night and he said, "A relationship is like a shark, it has to keep going forward to survive. What we have here is a dead shark." Right now that makes a lot of sense to me. Also, I am pretty sure that relationships can be measured by their depth. Two shallow people should not have a chance at a successful raltionship and yet I know many shallow people who are happy in their relationships. Maybe a shallow person has more tolerance for the flaws of his/her mate. What if one person is shallow and the other has depth which is the most likely scenario because everyone changes within a relationship? Something else to ponder is karma. If one person has bad karma, does the other one share it when they become mates ? What of the roles that different sexes play? And what of love?
Keywords: love marriage and a baby carriage
Lifebooks: relationships
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Sometimes I listen to Jim Cramer on Mad Money just to check in on the economy and see how the financial crisis or as I called it in a previous entry "the mighty big wind" is doing. He seems to be a straight shooter and who can blame anybody that worked on the Street for 25 years for being crazy. I do not intend to buy any stock and I do not see having any money to invest in the forseeable future. I did however work as a basic materials broker and I still like to feel the excitement of being in the game. Also I have an antique/craft business which seems to have a direct investment relationship to the stock market. I like to invest in things that are functional and collectible but lately my investments are loosing money because people stop discretionary spending in hard times. So I am watching the market to see what businesses are protected in this economy. As Cramer said in his last show,"All our assumptions are wrong. " Listen to the crazy man who gets his info from Charles Dickens .
Keywords: Cramer,Mad Money,finance
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11/07/08
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In a previous entry I said that I wanted to make a somewhat authentic tea bowl (chawan)for the Tea ceremony. In the process I learned how little I know and probably will never completely know about Japanese culture. An American living in Japan has a good web site on Japanese pottery. www.e-yakimono.net. Mr. Yellin also writes very well -to quote him on the chawan,"What it all boils down to is very simple and very Zen -- unless you are the sort of person who, when you stand under the wide sky, whatever the weather, is simply not amazed, for there is no difference between that experience and holding a profound chawan. The soul of a chawan will evade such people as thoroughly as if they tried to grasp some mountain mist." Sometimes the path to spirituality feels like chasing evaporating butterflies, but if the endeaver brings with it, grace, balance and serenity then how can we resist?
Keywords: chawan,pottery
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In a previous entry I said that I wanted to make a somewhat authentic tea bowl (chawan)for the Tea ceremony. In the process I learned how little I know and probably will never completely know about Japanese culture. An American living in Japan has a good web site on Japanese pottery. www.e-yakimono.net. Mr. Yellin also writes very well -to quote him on the chawan,"What it all boils down to is very simple and very Zen -- unless you are the sort of person who, when you stand under the wide sky, whatever the weather, is simply not amazed, for there is no difference between that experience and holding a profound chawan. The soul of a chawan will evade such people as thoroughly as if they tried to grasp some mountain mist." Sometimes the path to spirituality feels like chasing evaporating butterflies, but if the endeaver brings with it, grace, balance and serenity then how can we resist?
Keywords: chawan,pottery
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11/05/08 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
I grew up in Texas,so I knew what to expect from George Bush. For many, years if a politician wanted to be elected to office in Texas, all he had to do was to promise to do nothing. I am very fond of Texas but I am not proud of this legacy. I also regret that "No Child Left Behind" was created in Texas and unleashed on the rest of the country.The statistics supporting this program were falsified from the beginning. Last night Barak Obama was elected President and I doubt that he will be a do nothing politician. I do not want to take away from this momentous historical event and I am very happy that an African American was elected, but I agree with Colin Powell that the importance of Barak Obama is his character and not his race. If he is half white and half black , can he be claimed exclusively by either race? Like Colin Powell , I do not see if it would make any difference if he was Arab. Americans need to look at the person and not be consumed by race. This is just the beginning
Keywords: Barak Obama
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10/31/08
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After writing about the economy,careers, education,technology and how to videos, I got an inspiration. Why not add all this research in educationto marketing skills plus how to projects and put it into a really different way to teach. I am going to have to acquire some more technical skills but I think it will be worth it. My favorite research was Howard Gardener's theories on multiple intelligences .I am definitely a visual learner but I heard that he was working on a new intelligence -- a spiritual learner. At least his theories address human diversity. The trick is to create a marketable educational product with cutting edge technology. that incorporates different learning styles. Wow!
Keywords: multiple intelligeces
Lifebooks: careers
After writing about the economy,careers, education,technology and how to videos, I got an inspiration. Why not add all this research in educationto marketing skills plus how to projects and put it into a really different way to teach. I am going to have to acquire some more technical skills but I think it will be worth it. My favorite research was Howard Gardener's theories on multiple intelligences .I am definitely a visual learner but I heard that he was working on a new intelligence -- a spiritual learner. At least his theories address human diversity. The trick is to create a marketable educational product with cutting edge technology. that incorporates different learning styles. Wow!
Keywords: multiple intelligeces
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10/31/08 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
I have made a few bowls but the Shino glaze did not impress me. The shape and texture were appealing.. Go to www.touchingstone.com and click on tea bowls and then the 2008 Show to see what the bowls or cups should look like. Cups for the tea ceremony should be a certain weight and size. I will come back to the pottery when I figure out a good glaze. On another note about How to projects, I have found videos to be very helpful. A site called Smartflix.com has about 5000 videos for rent . So far their service has been very good. I have rented videos on watch and clock repair but it seems that they have good videos on photography, woodworking, and pottery. What I do is view one disc out of a set and then if I like it ,I google the maker of the film and order the whole set directly.
Keywords: pottery,photography,how to videos
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10/29/08
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I am working on four projects and I would like to share them in the how to category of this site. The first is to make a somewhat authentic tea cup for the Japanese tea ceremony. I have consulted with a Japanese potter and I hope to go to the pottery supply store and by some needed glaze ,grog and tools for sculpting clay. I will have to put the pictures on my web site because I see no way to upload them on to this site. I will also review some books and sites that I think are exceptional. The second project is to restore a Bulova Art Deco wristwatch from the 1920's. The third is to restore a Seth Thomas #89 key wind shelf clock, probably from about the same time period and lastly but probably the most important is to start the restoration on my 1972 Karmann Ghia convertible that I use as a daily driver and it really needs some TLC. This is the plan and I am going to stick to it . I'll be driving my Nissan until I get to the Ghia restoration.
Keywords: Tea Ceremony,Karmann Ghia,Bulova,Seth Thomas
Lifebooks: how to
I am working on four projects and I would like to share them in the how to category of this site. The first is to make a somewhat authentic tea cup for the Japanese tea ceremony. I have consulted with a Japanese potter and I hope to go to the pottery supply store and by some needed glaze ,grog and tools for sculpting clay. I will have to put the pictures on my web site because I see no way to upload them on to this site. I will also review some books and sites that I think are exceptional. The second project is to restore a Bulova Art Deco wristwatch from the 1920's. The third is to restore a Seth Thomas #89 key wind shelf clock, probably from about the same time period and lastly but probably the most important is to start the restoration on my 1972 Karmann Ghia convertible that I use as a daily driver and it really needs some TLC. This is the plan and I am going to stick to it . I'll be driving my Nissan until I get to the Ghia restoration.
Keywords: Tea Ceremony,Karmann Ghia,Bulova,Seth Thomas
Lifebooks: how to
10/23/08 Subscribe to tularosa's Lifebooks
Since I started writng on Nethalo I have been writing about education ,careers and spiritual attributes. I wrote about the importance of action so now I am going to switch to the how to category and write about pottery, a craft and art which can also be a career. I am going to write about pottery in different cultures and also how to make whatever style of pottery that interests me. I am presently making Japanese tea bowls for the tea ceremony and I will explain the tools and and glazes with which I am experimenting.
Keywords: pottery
Lifebooks: careers
10/22/08
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One way to get ahead in difficult times is to develop skills in technology. An individual who wants to start an enterprise is like a developing country. The banks will lend you money if you have money but if you don't , especially during a credit squeeze, then you are out of luck. However, that does not keep an indivdual from getting skills in technology and later they can use those skills to aquire capitol. The transfer of technology has been a big issue in the global economy for years. The devoloped countries did not want the developing countries to get hold of their technology for financial and security reasons but technology can not be easily contained. India is a good example of a developing country that has benefited from technology and if you do not beleive me-- the next time you go to pay a credit card bill, see who answers the phone. Another way for an individual to get ahead is to develop skills in arts and crafts. Look at the story of Juan Quezada and Mata Ortiz pottery.
Keywords: technology
Lifebooks: careers
One way to get ahead in difficult times is to develop skills in technology. An individual who wants to start an enterprise is like a developing country. The banks will lend you money if you have money but if you don't , especially during a credit squeeze, then you are out of luck. However, that does not keep an indivdual from getting skills in technology and later they can use those skills to aquire capitol. The transfer of technology has been a big issue in the global economy for years. The devoloped countries did not want the developing countries to get hold of their technology for financial and security reasons but technology can not be easily contained. India is a good example of a developing country that has benefited from technology and if you do not beleive me-- the next time you go to pay a credit card bill, see who answers the phone. Another way for an individual to get ahead is to develop skills in arts and crafts. Look at the story of Juan Quezada and Mata Ortiz pottery.
Keywords: technology
Lifebooks: careers
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