Blog Entries tagged 'Spirituality'

Pray N Play

tony@tonyellis.com — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:00:00 +0100

I've just been on the phone with my wife discussing the movie Eat Pray Love or, as the local cinema in Ottumwa where she saw it billed it, Eat Prey Love, which I assume is the arachnid version.

I haven't seen the movie yet but I read the bestsellin

Navigating the Neo Nar Nor Nebula

rustinlarson@gmail.com — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:00:00 +0100

A Conversation with a Small Cactus

rustinlarson@gmail.com — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:00:00 +0100

Some thoughts about that: if not in an opera house then here under the girders of a new civilization in which the contemplative norm is that of a cheeseburger with a face full of sesames. McCheese is one's neighbor and mayor, and his clown same-sex partner is a cook of sorts, and I gues

A Few Things Straight about Flame Skunks, Abraham Lincoln, and the Endless Tunnels of Paradise

rustinlarson@gmail.com — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:00:00 +0100

Flame skunks. They is a problem to most home owners, be all they don't know it though. Pesky little fellers, git in your basement and start feedin off the lint of most furnace filters. You can tell 'em by their plumpish skunk bodies, but they's head's just like a gas broiler wi

Strawberry Fields Forever

tony@tonyellis.com — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:00:00 +0100

It is often suggested that economic crises lead people to more spiritual reflection (take the coins from the eyes of the corpse and suddenly it sees again), so it was interesting to read the cover story in this week's Newsweek magazine (April 13, 2009: http://www.newsweek.com/id/192583

A Tale of Two Minds

tony@tonyellis.com — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0100

In Soul Food by Jack Cornfield and Christina Feldman, there is a story by Forrest Carter about his Cherokee grandparents, which is a cautionary tale for our times. Granma, he writes, says we have two minds: the body mind and the spirit mind. The body mind deals with practical matters to do with keep

Event Horizon

tony@tonyellis.com — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:00:00 +0100

Event horizon: a boundary in space time used to describe the apparent edge around a black hole, beyond which nothing can be seen.

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I was on the phone recently with my friend Doug in San Francisco discussing the calamitous weat

It's Only Words

tony@tonyellis.com — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:00:00 +0100

Sifting through the usual well thumbed magazines in the waiting room at Dr. Love’s Alternative Health Clinic (yes that is his real name) I stumbled upon an interesting pam

One Heart or Two?

tony@tonyellis.com — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:00:00 +0100

During Dennis Kucinich’s 2004 presidential bid I was asked by one his party organizers what I thought might be a good rallying call for his campaign. “No more lies,” I suggested. One of the big political issues then was (and still is) the Iraq War. Kucinich was

Across the Universe

tony@tonyellis.com — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0100

On February 4th NASA beamed The Beatles’ song Across the Universe literally “across the universe”. The next day, His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation about which this song was written, left this world