Augustina: Hi Alan,Of Luis Borges’ dog. It’s a stubborn presence unmaking, as the questioned perspectives do, the bluntness of word-based linguistics. Photography is easier, there is a visual reminder and remainder of the image, and the supposition is that something is captured of the spectra of the thing, but the event eludes the blunt ...

Day 3.Grits.  All I'll say is never again.Being driven home in the rain, there on the corner stood a man, getting wet, holding up a piece of cardboard saying, ''Please help.  Any work, any job.''  I don't see that in London.  And I didn't ''see'' it when I saw it.  I felt it.  And I was appalled that it should come to ...

Alan: related ...  a while back someone gave me a CD by Pema Chodron on shenpa (''hooked'').  What she said wasn't quite right for me personally, but it wasn't that far off; it got to something that I recognized and helped me think about it more clearly.  Instead of trying to define it, I'll quote from an online essay of ...

Augustina:Quantum Soup-Week 8  ''The more fully she learns to live, the more the seemingly hidden ‘mysteries of the universe’ begin to appear. They do not necessarily make themselves known with great clamor or fanfare, but suddenly the most innocuous, innocent bird song or the sight of a leaf might reveal knowledge of the profoundest ...

Religious  ''The final portion of her essence is her religious-focus. This is her personal expression of her essence in relation to itself, and also in relation to nature, and in relation to The Creating Universal One And Whole.'' Elias session 1587   ''Individuals that are religiously focused process information, intake and output, ...