Dr. Evil’s Guest Blog

April 1, 2010

Some readers have suggested that I can be a little too peace and love, a little unrealistic in all this “Isn’t life wonderful?  Aren’t kids beautiful?” talk.  And so while I like to think that I’ve somehow earned my optimism, even I feel like I might be starting to gag on it sometimes. As T.S. […]

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Out like a Lion

March 31, 2010

Maybe it was some sort of dyslexia; maybe it was the tendency for late snowstorms to hit Chicago well after you thought winter was over, maybe it was the nature of the Windy City itself, but I always thought that March came in like a lamb and went out like a lion. I think the […]

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Chicken Soup for our Broken Society

March 30, 2010

An Op-Ed piece in the New York Times by David Brooks, “The Broken Society,” caught my attention, primarily because I tend to agree that our society is broken (as for why I think so, see Myth-Maker, Myth-Maker make me a myth). Brooks outlines the brokenness and then turns to Brit Phillip Blond who “lays out […]

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Freedom

March 29, 2010

While literal slavery is an abomination against the sanctity of the human spirit, not to mention an ego inflation that strives to elevate certain humans in a place of dominion not just over others but over nature itself (as if we can master life and death by bossing others around), we can also be all […]

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A Broken Bone

March 28, 2010

A broken bone unlocks energy   Near drowning is near waking       Deep cuts pierce the veil                   Of our skin          And we find that inside and       Outside co-exist          Until the doctor sews us up […]

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Kar Kulture

March 27, 2010

Every morning I pass Jay Leno, going opposite directions each on our respective ways to work—he in a different car every day, me in the same car every day. LA is a car town.  But I’m not a car guy.  I stopped dreaming of getting a sports car when my best friend died just as […]

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Fate and Freewill

March 26, 2010

Lindsey at A Design so Vast ended an excellent and provocative post on finding our paths and letting go of order with a quote by E.L. Doctorow, which is where I wanted to start today: “You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” Lindsey concludes, […]

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Can thinking deeply make us happy?

March 25, 2010

A recent, much emailed, piece in the New York Times by Roni Caryn Rabin, Talk Deeply, Be Happy? draws from a psychological study that found that people who talked more about substantive things in comparison to those who favored small talk, were actually happier than their surface-dwelling peers. The researchers write, “Together, the present findings […]

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Maybe old age IS the New Age

March 24, 2010

A few years back I attended a mindfulness conference at UCLA that featured the likes of Daniel Siegel, Jack Kornfeld and Thich Nhat Hanh.  Yet one of the presenters that has stayed most in my mind was a researcher from Harvard named Sara Lazar.  Her work looking into how the brain changes with yoga and […]

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When did we stop being us?

March 23, 2010

I love this picture of Andy.  To me it’s just adorable, but it’s also very real—a kid just being a kid, being her true Self. Andy and I were talking about how we’re just starting to feel like ourselves again, those Selves that we were when we were five or so… after all these years […]

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