My sis and I played incessantly with Barbies. This was the era of fuzzy-haired Cabbage Patch Kids and Strawberry Shortcake dolls with their faint scent of sweetness and Monchhichi, Monchhichi, oh so soft and cuddly (looking back, these stuffed monkeys with plastic hands were just plain weird)....
TD start their set softly, with Hoshiko Yamane’s violin parting the sonic rainclouds of the others synths then segueing to a version of Betrayal (Sorcerer) that completely melts my face off. Honestly, I always disliked this piece, and had always found it basic. This version, however was ...
darkness itself. This veil must be removed; the scales must drop from their eyes; their eyes must be opened and enlightened, before they can discern spiritual things contained in the word of God; and even good men need to have the eyes of their understandings more and more enlightened into...
5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: [but] peace [shall be] upon Israel. [Psalm 126:1-6 KJV] 1 [[A Song of degrees.]] When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream....
My life was transformed in so many good ways by these special creatures that have the body of an animal but the soul of an enlightened being. For that is what these dogs are – sentient beings, filled with unconditional love. Zach is missed every day, even as this year closes. ...
You Dong even explicitly said: “The SS chooses ways to be enlightened, and only selects the ear-root 《楞嚴》擇選圓通,獨取耳根。” (You 1996, p. 450). In the SS, the Buddha asked each of the twenty-five sages to speak of their methods to enlightenment and then asked Mañjuśrī...
Understanding the honor/shame culture is imperative for an accurate understanding of Scripture. Richards and James go a long way toward redeeming the positive usage of shame and helping readers understand that this culture isn’t just some backward way of thinking that our enlightened mi...
In the following paragraphs I intend to peel back the layers of the enigmatic root vegetable we call an onion. I’ve always been fascinated by its structure, pungency and why it tastes so good. It also serves as a unique analogy for understanding root meaning and the multiple layers that ...
He told me of other people on the production who’d worked for weeks, then not had their phone calls returned. After hearing all this, I asked him if he really thought the movie was going to be made at all. He said he hoped so…if only for the months of work he’d put into it...
of knowledge than to provide a context for the action, but one of Balzac's aims is to make us wonder whether there is ever such a thing as an irrelevant detail. Anything and everything may contribute something vital to our understanding of reality. The novelist Henry James, a great ...