happy pancake

Nov 6

“It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English — up to fifty words used in correct context — no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.” Carl Sagan (via livejamie) (via dalasverdugo)

Nov 5

Big news for Buddhists/Feminists

“Time only will tell if the bhikkhuni ordination at Bodhinyana monastery in October 2009 will be seen as a key breakthrough in the acceptance of a Theravada bhikkhuni order, or as an overly hasty and confrontational move that alienated many of those it was intended to persuade.”

(Bhikkhunis are women-monks, not officially allowed in Thai Forest Buddhism)

Nov 4

Sweet costume.

via Josh Abramson

Oct 31

Calvin = Chucky this year.

Oct 29

dalasverdugo:

david: via benjaminpalmer and jayparkinsonmd

Very cool.

Oct 28

“…they should be taken with a grain of salt, he thought, because the most exaggerated speeches usually hid the weakest feelings — as though the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow into the emptiest phrases, since no one can ever express the exact measure of his needs, his conceptions or his sorrows, and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out crude rhythms for bears to dance to while we long to make music that will wring tears from the stars.”

Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (via psychotherapy)

Note to self: Read Madame Bovary.

Oct 26

It’s really raining out there this morning!

Oct 22

“Dog smells like greasy unwashed hair, but the reason the hair is unwashed is because you were camping and doing things outside and couldn’t be bothered. Also you were camping next to a weird steamy volcano hole in the ground and that is the inside of a dog’s mouth.” The fine folks on UHX are helping me learn about how things smell (since I don’t have this sense). Although I doubt they think of it this way, each description feels like an amazing, intimate gift.

Oct 16

The Danish practice of teaching preschool children in the forest all year round may be in for the chop

“From 8am to 4pm, five days a week, the 25 or so children come to school here, rain, hail or shine. They have their snacks here, eat their lunch here, build dens and play hide and seek. And there is no popping back home to use the loo. All that goes on outdoors too, with plenty of plastic bags on hand to remove the evidence.”

I want to go back in time and attend a forest school! This would have been a DREAM for me.

Oct 15

How Mindfulness Can Make for Better Doctors

Mindfulness is in.