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It\u2019s 4am. I\u2019m \u201chome\u201d in Helena at my folks\u2019 house unable to sleep after a few fitful hours of rest. A silent snow blankets the city. Idyllic except for the drive to Butte tomorrow (today) with my father to pick up my sister.<\/p>\n
I found these first two quotes, bouncing around Buddhisty blogs to pass the time. So much wisdom out there, just clicks away. I didn\u2019t even realize that the themes overlapped until reading them again here together. <\/span>I\u2019ve heard a lot about Elizabeth Gilbert, and I have her book sitting somewhere to be read. I have been told that she\u2019s a great writer. And also that she\u2019s painfully self-absorbed and whiny.<\/p>\nAnd then perhaps we all are; at least those of us with leisure time to read and write blogs<\/span> (to be honest, one and only one blog comes to mind as a clear exception and that\u2019s Rev. Danny Fisher\u2019s<\/a>). And on a good Buddhisty note, I should say that I profess ignorance as to the self-absorption of all other beings. Oh, but that gives me an idea for the title of my own spiritual journey memoir, \u201cDrink, Meditate, Metta\u201d \u2013 or, better\/catchier, \u201cMedicate, Meditate, Metta.\u201d No, not as catchy as \u201cEat, Pray, Love\u201d (which will be out in theaters 2010), I\u2019ll admit.<\/p>\nDayamati tells a sad story about health insurance in his full post. Sad, and amazingly topical as Congress seems poised to pass a bill to \u201creform\u201d our system, though I have a hard time understanding much about it.<\/span> Reading today\u2019s paper on it makes it look like a football game: Senator so-and-so from Nebraska scores big with his vote, XX-millions of dollars directly to his state; cosmetic surgeons successfully block kick to tax, tanning-bed-lobby punts and winds up with the tax in return; Senator from Montana sneaks in XX-millions of dollars in technical loophole to help the down-and-outs in his state; etc, etc. <\/p>\n~\n
Finally, the last quote provides a reprieve.\n
It\u2019s not about stuff, or the world and its problems, or people making money off the world and its problems\u2026<\/p>\n
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