Archive for December, 2008
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Solar panels 2
Here are some pictures of our recently installed solar panels. Now we just need some sun!
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Hladini 1987
While I was visiting Laxmi Honest in Florida she gave me some pictures of when a lot of devotees had visited her home in Meadeville, Pennsylvania, in 1987.
A couple of ashrams of boys were visiting for a week. A women and a men’s sankirtan parties stopped by as well as Radhanath Swami. As the winter […]
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
4 Stages Of Life
You believe in Santa Claus.
You don’t believe in Santa Claus.
You are Santa Claus.
You look like Santa Claus.
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
The Reward of Faith
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe that thous mayest understand.”- St. AugustineFaith is something that must be put to the test, that must become an active part of our lives, ap…
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
“Credo” by Robinson Jeffers
My friend from Asia has powers and magic, he plucks a blue leaf from the young
…blue-gum
And gazing upon it, gathering and quieting
The God in his mind, creates an ocean more real than the ocean, the salt, the actual
Appalling presence, the power of the waters.
He believes that nothing is real except as we make it. I […]
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Sunday, December 28th, 2008
Alachua Go-stuff
I didn’t get to the computer yesterday as it hit 67 deg (19 C) and so used what energy I had available outside doing some belated fall cleanup. I also chopped some cook stove wood and wheelbarrowed that to the kitchen porch stash and also refilled the basement stove wood bin, which is about a […]
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Friday, December 26th, 2008
Back Home, Back to Mundanehood
We are home and the trip is officially over.
I had a great idea for a blog post but didn’t put the energy into developing it.
If I had, I would have posted it here.
Just thought you’d like to know.
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Friday, December 26th, 2008
Where Are All The Half-Evolved Dinosaurs?
I don’t profess to have a very proper understanding of the mechanics of the Darwinist theory of evolution, so I’m always a little wary to blindly refute it based on the little knowledge I have, and so I keep an inquisitive mindset into what exactly is …
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
The Turning Point
We are leaving Laxmi and Dave’s this morning so we are officially on the return trip. We are going to take a different route home for the first part of the journey.
We are going up the Gulf Coast an hour to another beach then crossing over to the Atlantic Coast where we will take Route […]
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Alachua To The Gulf Coast
After arriving from Alachua yesterday I spent today building up a need for aloe vera to avert the sunburn I would have otherwise acquired on a Gulf Coast beach in Florida. Endless clear sky over ocean to the horizon. Watching the pelicans fish and every time they dove in and struck a sea gull was right by […]
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Bicycle! Bicycle!
In our college programs at Ohio University and U. of Pittsburgh, we invariably always meet up with the “Critical Mass” people. What is “Critical Mass”? It’s not as dire as it sounds. Instead, it’s the bi-weekly/monthly get-together of local biking e…
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Saturday, December 20th, 2008
New Vrndavana overrun by zombies!
In Krishna consciousness, dreaming about the Krishna is a very auspicious thing. Also in Krishna consciousness, serving the devotees is often seen as more glorious than serving the Lord. So naturally, one can draw the conclusion that my dream about zombies and Madhava Gosh is pretty much as auspicious as I’m going to get.
The […]
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
Chilling Out
Two and a half year old Sydney arrived with Manjari and 5 year old Deva Gracie drove in with Clint and Vraja so we doing the family thing.
Not recommended for preaching programs but we have been playing Apples to Apples which is a game based completely on subjectivity so you learn about people and pass time. […]
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Mary’s Homework
We arrived at Madhu’s just as 8 year old Mary got home from school where she is in the third grade. Before she could play she had to do her homework which was to write a story about reindeer.
She has given me permission to publish it (I avoided the urge to proof read):
Fire antler, Rosebud, […]
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Christmas Strikes Back
After driving all day in snow turning into rain, we arrived at Isani and Vaikunthanatha’s.
Newer devotees will know Isani from the work that still graces New Vrindaban. Old timers will recognize Vaiki, Isani and Suta. Some might remember cute little Adam. While he may still be cute, he is now 17, and 6′ 9″ (2 meters 9 […]