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What makes us human?

Posted on Oct 8th, 2008 by Daniel : Human Daniel
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 08, 2008:

Idealism, Mysticism, Abstract Thought, Awe, Language, History, Culture . . . Exegesis . . . and thumbs.

We live in a meaningful, abstract, inspired reality AND a sensory, physical reality . . .  And, there is nothing we can't learn, despite the all-too-frequent, contrary evidence.

Peace and Love

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What do you know by heart?

Posted on Oct 10th, 2008 by Daniel : Human Daniel
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 10, 2008:

My Wife's . . . (mmm???) . . . laughter!!! 

A thousand songs. A hundred guitar chords. The color wheel. The Muse's aroma. The rules of baseball. The recipes for bread, chai, gravy and pesto. The sound of one hand clapping. My inner child. The way home.

Sh'ma Y'srael, Adonai, Eloheinu, Adonai, Echad!!!

Peace and Love
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What do you wish people spent more time discussing?

Posted on Oct 13th, 2008 by Daniel : Human Daniel
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 11, 2008:

I wish people spent more time discussing their highest ideals and how they are realized - who and what they love, what inspires them, their creative efforts, real world acts of wisdom, good ways to improve the bonds of community, good ways to healthy, expansive consciousness, individual transcendence and universal unity.

Oh, and humor, religion, politics, art, science, music, current events, baseball . . . and recipes.
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Which foreign country or culture do you feel most drawn toward?

Posted on Oct 18th, 2008 by Daniel : Human Daniel
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for October 18, 2008:

I spent my senior year of college (1994-95) in India. I would live there again in a heartbeat. Indian culture has dimensions that we in America don't even have names for, much less a well-developed tradition of understanding. I see this changing, however.

I would love to live in, or at least visit, Israel. So much history, so much significance. Another land from which America could learn something of priceless quality.

I would love to live a year or two or ten or more in England, my ancestral home. There just something about it that pulls me. Maybe it's the food . . .

I look forward to America becoming, once again, as great as it's promise.

Peaec and Love
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