Keith “Maggie” Brown
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Nevada Wildfire Could Snuff Out A Rare Butterfly : NPR
The Mount Charleston blue butterfly, a tiny insect about the size of a quarter, is found in a couple small patches high in southern Nevada’s Spring Mountains. These mountains are known as a sky island ecosystem because its relatively cool… Continue reading
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Roots and Ladders – Benedictine Monasticism & the Integral Christian Future – Pre-Conference Workshop #ITC2013
Originally posted on Evolutionary Landscapes: Hospitality As Kosmopolitan 9:00 AM. I picked this workshop to start with because the Christian Contemplative path has always profoundly spoke with me. There was a time where I kept The Cloud of Unknowing in my… Continue reading
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Bright Blue Dot
In this rare image taken on July 19, 2013, the wide-angle camera on NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured Saturn’s rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame. It is only one footprint in a mosaic of… Continue reading
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Ft. Collins, Colorado
The buddy-friend-guy and I are on our way to visit our good brother on the Way, Ronnie Pelton, the customer advocacy director at Toddy LLC. We’ll be visiting the Rocky Mountain National Forest, Estes Park, Boulder, etc. But we are… Continue reading
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Tannhäuser Overture | Richard Wagner
Sitting and waiting for the newest Teen Wolf episode on MTV and suddenly I think, “Hey, why not listen to one of Richard Wagner‘s greatest overtures?” Indeed, good brother and sisters of the Ether, why not? Now, I am quite… Continue reading
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Lessons from Mysticism
Originally posted on creating for Christ: Mysticism and the Church In one of my online theology classes this question was posed – What would mysticism as described by Placher in relation to Meister Eckhart say to the church today? My… Continue reading
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The Crisis of Finance Capitalism and the Exhaustion of Neoliberalism
The report “Changing Banking for Good” attempts to make bankers personally responsible, to reform bank governance and strengthen the powers of regulators. Some think that if the report’s recommendations are implemented, it will destroy London as a global financial center.… Continue reading
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This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is Gas Land
The Obama Administration has proposed new regulations for hydraulic fracturing on 756 million acres of public and tribal lands. The rules were written by the drilling industry and will be streamlined into effect by a new intergovernmental task force, established… Continue reading
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Daodejing 7
#7* Heaven is eternal; earth is everlasting. The reason why heaven and earth can be eternal and everlasting? Because they do not exist for themselves, [they] thus can live long. Therefore, the Sage makes himself go behind yet he comes… Continue reading
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when God’s not looking
Originally posted on coromandal: Here is a description of bait and switch on the macro scale. The worshipers of Dionysus experienced ecstasy – a feeling of communion and immortality – through rites of wine and dancing. One can argue –… Continue reading
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“Torn: Sixty Days of Calaboose” (Excerpt)
Originally posted on Tracy James Jones: Okay. So I write about controversial social issues. All of my characters are diverse in race, age, creed, and sexual orientation. And here I go again. :o) Not many would know the emotional impact… Continue reading
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People Believe in Luxury: The “Ground Control” Theory!
Originally posted on Blogverse Musings: We, the working class people in public sectors, entertainment, politics, marketing, education, medical, PR, sales, laws, media, etc. the entire skilled pretenders “the innocent liars!” We are devoted in thinking differently the same different things.… Continue reading
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Unfocus
Originally posted on HeartSphere: “People were created to be loved, things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved, and people are being used.” ~Unknown I came upon this… Continue reading





