VT Digger - access to criminal records

New access to criminal investigation records assessed by lawmakers

link to schedule of one of THE best bands right now in the USA:

http://lakestreetdive.com/tour_dates/

Is Shambhala a religion?

I will be collecting items of interest here over the next couple of weeks in preparation for a presentation.

Wikipedia on religion :

The word religion is sometimes used interchangeably with faith, belief system . . . however, in the words of Émile Durkheim, religion differs from private belief in that it is "something eminently social".

late summer reading -- The Infatuations

Here's a book I plan to get for some late summer reading --
http://www.npr.org/2013/08/12/209565333/addictive-infatuations-takes-a-metaphysical-look-at-crime

an excerpt from the review (by John Powers)

Like all of all of Marías' work, The Infatuations is unsettling, even slightly sinister, because it confronts us with thoughts we'd rather not hear: that morality is provisional and can be corrupted by many things, including love; that to survive, we invariably start forgetting the lost loved ones whose memory we once clung to — if the murdered Miguel returned, Luisa might actually find his presence inconvenient. Most unsettling of all, Marías suggests that our self, this thing we call "I," is not something solid and immutable. Like our narrator, we cobble ourselves together from moment to moment out of malleable memories, stories we've heard and fictions we tell ourselves to impose meaning on what's going on around us.

new photos at Samadhi Cushions

My latest product photos for Samadhi Cushions: offering bowls & box for powdered incense.

     

Article by Cara Thornley re Bridge Champion, Allan Graves

Here's a photo I took recently to promote Samadhi Cushions'

new limited edition Blue Iris Zafu: