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Kotatsu

2009-11-19T07:12:08Z

A traditional Japanese house isn’t sealed and centrally heated in winter. The heat is localized in particular rooms. Or even a part of a room, which part might be a table with a quilt covering and an electric heating bulb underneath. This heated t...

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9.25

2009-11-15T00:16:12Z

NC Tate

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Sunset

2009-11-14T22:59:58Z

In the late afternoon after the storm, I looked up from my desk and noticed the house across the road was bathed in pink. Rushing to an upstairs window, I saw the western sky was rivers of crimson. Minutes later--by the time I grabbed a camera--it...

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The Greatest Athletic Achievement . . .

2009-11-14T07:31:00Z

. . . by a man on a psychedelic journey. —David

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Tear Down the Wall

2009-11-14T07:19:31Z

From Coyote Crossing: During the 28-year history of the 87-mile-long Berlin Wall, 136 people are known to have died attempting to cross it. That’s an average of just under five people a year. Since 1994, an average of 373 people have died attem...

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Storm on a Saturday morning

2009-11-14T01:17:35Z

A gusty wind roars up the valley, twisting the trees and bending the bamboo. The spiders webs under the eaves and in the garden hang in tatters. A fine, dense rain falls, then is whipped and carried by the storm. Clouds barely visible, gray upon g...

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Sunday, Hayama

2009-11-11T06:52:06Z

Sunday was warm and sunny and we made our way down the coast to Hayama. The local people were enjoying a slow afternoon on their beautiful, sheltered beach, picnicking, reading, playing badminton, jogging, strolling, walking the dog. We cycled al...

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Simply Capitalism

2009-11-09T21:35:01Z

Slavoj Zizek in the New York Times: Where does this resurrection of anti-Communism [in the former Eastern Bloc] draw its strength from? Why were the old ghosts resuscitated in nations where many young people don’t even remember the Communist ti...

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Sailors

2009-11-09T13:00:40Z

—David

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Hakim Bey

2009-11-08T05:50:59Z

Rick Fields believes that the current trouble with authority in American Buddhism arises in part from the attempt to transplant an oriental monastery/temple tradition into an occidental setting of laymen and women, neither monks nor priests. By...

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