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I need to get back here and write more about my experiences intentionally sleep-walking this week (thta's not really an accurate description, but it will have to do), but in the meantime, here are a few links to what I've been very busy writing about lately. Here are some of my latest articles over on the devdaily.com website:
A friend reports on Champion Farms crime (Champion Farms apartment crime)
A friend of mine wrote this story about crime at the Champion Farms apartment complex in Louisville, Kentucky, and all I can say is "move out, asap". Your own safety and security is more important than trying to save a few dollars. Break your lease, and get out.
First migraine of 2009
Argh, my first migraine of 2009 tonight. After running errands all day, including taking Zeus to the vet, I decide to get a coffee at Starbucks, and while waiting for the coffee, I know the migraine is coming. I crash at 5pm, and wake up near midnight, still with a little pain, and my hands shaking.
A Zen book for children for Christmas
If you're in the market for a Zen book for a child, teenager, or anyone young at heart, "Zen Master Raven: Sayings and Doings of a Wise Bird" by Robert Aitken is one of my favorites. The "chapters" are very short, 1-2 pages at most, and usually include a sketch of one of the animals in the story line.
Here's part of the product description from Amazon.com:
Newspaper ad with Terry
Most recent dream. Sitting at a table with Terry (brother-in-law), looking through a newspaper ad. It's a 10-12 page ad, big like a newspaper. As I'm flipping from page to page the first time through it's all about chocolate, and the last page has a big peanut butter cup ad. I mention that to Terry, and as I flip through it again, there are ads on pages, they show up magically ... they're mostly DQ ads.
Vibrations end in stomach pain
This morning, just before 12:45am, I had a bout of those "You're about to have an OBE" vibrations. Unfortunately they ended with a pain in my stomach, and no OBE (out of body exerience). I tried to relax when the vibrations kicked in, but it was to no avail, it was just going to be one of those stomach cramp times.
Here are the notes I made following the vibration episode:
A dying bird on the road
Today gets to be remembered as the day that I drove over a bird on the road as it was fighting for its own life, and rapidly losing that battle.
Best written text on a car, 2007
The award for "Best written text posted on a car, 2007" goes to:
You laugh at me because I'm different.
I laugh at you because you're all the same.
WWSD
Bumper sticker of the week:
What would Scooby do?
On hearing voices
Of course I hear voices, doesn't everyone? What, you think I'm crazy? :)
Okay, I exaggerate. What really happens is that when I meditate, or some nights just before I fall asleep and I'm in a hypnogogic state, I hear, hmm .... not voices, but something more like sentences or thought fragments. Here are a few recent examples:
