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Kat's Handy Memory Blog: March 2015
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog. Tuesday, March 17, 2015. Malaysian Wayang Kulit Shadow Puppets. Last weekend I experienced my first Malaysian shadow puppet show in Gainesville, Florida, seeing “Wayang Kulit: The Shadow Play of Kelantan”. There was a second projection screen to the left of the puppet screen where a few sentences were listed in English to explain each scene. They were quite general and did not reflect dialogue or drama. Why couldn't I see their hands or arms? So I kneeled there in total awe of th...
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog: February 2015
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog. Monday, February 9, 2015. Vippassana, 10 days of Quiet. And what was that? We were there to look at our minds. Sort of. The first three days of the retreat we focused on our breath to enhance the ability of the mind to detect subtleties of breath sensations in our nose, on the edges of the nostrils and on the upper lip. This he called Anapana meditation. It was easy not to lie, since we were speaking only to the assistant teacher and lady manager. I scanned myself. I felt fle...
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog: November 2014
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog. Wednesday, November 12, 2014. Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life energy." - Nikola Tesla, quoted in Waking up: Freeing Ourselves from Work. A book by Pamela Satterwhite. Someone told us that we need big homes with big yards, and big cars to take ourselves to long-working hours in jobs where others tell us when to work, and allow a few weeks a year which we use for a "getaway" vacation. giving us benefits that pay for exorbitantly unaffordable insurance.
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog: December 2011
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog. Friday, December 30, 2011. I watched a documentary by this name. And I was awestruck and encouraged and inspired, and I came to love Jesus more, believing that he did explore the east and their meditative and puja practices. There were 18 missing years (from age 13 to 30)! Some say he just lived with his family and learned the craft of carpentry with Joseph. but we all know deep inside that a boy who at the age of 12 was disc. What did he come here for? The silk road provided the...
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog: March 2013
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog. Tuesday, March 12, 2013. Soil Landscape Art to Radiolab. I wrote a letter to Radiolab the other day. they wrote back saying the idea of patterns in nature is a good one and that the idea would be forwarded on. It was from a nice intern. Here is my letter:. I can envision these beautiful images hanging in a big office lobby in San Francisco or Portland. or lined along a wall of my local organic-foods restaurant. I have made art with nature! But across many miles. I wrote to you be...
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog: March 2012
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog. Tuesday, March 27, 2012. I feel a huge sense of affirmation and YES after discovering the work of Craig Chalquist who wrote the book. Terrapsychology: Re-engaging the soul of place. Where we inhabit, love, laugh, run, sing and cry is not simply a backdrop curtain to our experiences, it is an active player with life energies, or lack thereof in some more urban settings, and how do all those life energies combine to influence our views, feelings, modes of being and memories?
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog: June 2012
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog. Sunday, June 3, 2012. I read Island, by Aldous Huxley. I have been co-reading some books with my godson nephew, Robert. Right now we are reading The Life of Pi, but last fall we read Island, by Aldous Huxley (his last book, published in 1962). It is a favorite book of my friend Evan, and a book about an ideal society, so I was interested. Here is an email to Robert when I was on page 100 (November 2011):. I had to look up Manichee. So interesting! He terms "Manichaean" and "Manic...
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog: September 2013
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog. Thursday, September 12, 2013. Learn about 9/11 please! I feel it is important not to loose sight of the incredible evil acts of September 11, 2001, and to understand who created the situations in New York, Washington DC and Penssylvania that killed 1000's of innocent American people. 2nd edition of Loose Change. Very well-produced for understanding the explanations. I think some stuff is off the mark (flight 93? Made by architects/engineers discussing the truth of the physics tha...
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog: June 2013
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog. Saturday, June 29, 2013. My Old Ignorance of the Elephant Spirit. I read the book the Elephant Whisperer by Lawrence Anthony, and was so moved, awed and shocked by the interactions and society of the elephants including their long-distance communication and ESP-type perception. The book is an autobiography of Anthony's chapter in life of saving a unruly herd of elephants that required many sleepless nights camping by an enclosure (a boma) to. We all know dolphins communicate and ...
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog: May 2013
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Kat's Handy Memory Blog. Wednesday, May 29, 2013. Saturday morning of Memorial Day weekend, going through a long list of Ted. Talks to get podcasts for a 4.5 hour drive. So many of these talks were about science, engineering, technologies. I was seeing the main categories: technology, entertainment, design, business, science, global issues. I was in the mood for the non-material. Why weren't there categories like Nature. Is she learning to love herself and all her own emotions and thoughts? TED is a nonp...
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