Three years ago today

October 8, 2010

Three years ago today, I arrived in Portland, via my little red Toyota truck. It was loaded to the teeth with what was left of my possessions from my life in California. I was ready to make a new home. I knew I wanted to grow roots, and roots I have grown. I consider Portland [...]

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2 Camps, an Ignite and Erlang

September 27, 2010

Last week was a busy one. On Tuesday, I attended PublicMediaCamp, hosted by Oregon Public Broadcasting. Audrey led a session on location-based reporting and tools for reporting on local tech (sort of a hybrid session), for which I took some notes. During the second hour, Reid, Audrey and I had a good chat with Morgan [...]

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Fall Song (Mary Oliver)

September 22, 2010

Another by Mary Oliver to celebrate the first day of Fall and the autumnal equinox. Enjoy… Fall Song by Mary Oliver Another year gone, leaving everywhere its rich spiced residues: vines, leaves, the uneaten fruits crumbling damply in the shadows, unmattering back from the particular island of this summer, this Now, that now is nowhere [...]

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Our Vows

September 12, 2010

These are the vows that Sherri and I made to each other during our ceremony yesterday. I thought it would be nice to share them here (you can also read the text of the entire ceremony). Shared Vows (based on the Five Grave Buddhist Precepts) In the practice of our marriage, I vow to affirm, [...]

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A Few by Mary Oliver

August 26, 2010

In research material for our wedding ceremony, including vows, I picked up a couple of books of Mary Oliver’s poetry. A few pieces really amazed me and so I’m sharing them here. The Plum Trees Such richness flowing through the branches of summer and into the body, carried inward on the five rivers! Disorder and [...]

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Veganism Isn’t a Buddhist Teaching (Yet)

August 25, 2010

I’ve written here before about my struggles being a vegan in a non-vegan sangha. It’s been so painful of a process that I’ve taken several months off of sanga activities, including weekly group meditation. Recently I’ve had a breakthough on the subject that I wanted to share. What I realized, and it seems so simple [...]

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A Note on Prop 8

August 5, 2010

Note: This post comes from a comment I made on Facebook in response to the a comment on one of my status updates. In browsing online for reactions to the Prop 8 decision, I’ve noticed several complaints by folks who voted for Prop 8 about having their vote overturned. They seem to think that they had their rights [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-20

June 20, 2010

Listening to @pdxyogini explain "queer" to my mother (over the phone). # @wchogg Mostly awesome, I think, with a touch of hilarity (e.g. explaining that queer was not just a Portland term). in reply to wchogg # Really unimpressed with "PHP: The Good Parts", so much so I'm tempted to write my first Amazon review [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-13

June 13, 2010

That was an epic nap. # @cmartin0 With the light blue cover? in reply to cmartin0 # Listening to OPB's In House and making dinner with @PDXyogini. It's nice to be home in the evening after a week of super late nights out. # @tekniklr Congrats on securing a place to live! in reply to [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-06

June 6, 2010

Two more @osbridge errands and then hopefully some yard word, weather permitting. # I'm sorta tired of these "partly cloudy" forecasts turning in to "X chance of rain." # @built I just added them to the wiki: http://is.gd/cvVoA in reply to built # @built Welcome! @natronics deserves the thank yous, really. He did an awesome [...]

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