[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&hl=en&fs=1] No movie I have ever seen has made me as happy as this four and a half minute video. Here’s the YouTube link with a link to the high quality version: http://youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY&feature=user About Matt Harding and the video:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/arts/television/08dancer.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin The lyrics to the song were written by Rabindranath Tagore, from his poem, “Stream of Life”: …
From what I know, there are dozens of things to pay attention to when trying to hit a golf ball properly, from keeping your lead forearm straight through the back swing, to connecting with the turf just a smidge below the ball in such a manner as to make that perfect sounding “thump” at the …
I took the Keirsey Temperament Sorter test at www.keirsey.com. Here’s my report: Custom Keirsey Temperament Report for: Gerardo Your Keirsey Temperament Sorter Results indicates that your personality type is that of the ARTISAN. All Artisans (SPs) share the following core characteristics: * Artisans pride themselves on being unconventional, bold, and spontaneous. * Artisans are excitable, …
My friend once told me that when I wake from a dream, and I try to remember what the dream was about, that I should pay less attention to what happened in the dream, and more attention to how I felt during the dream, and how I felt as soon as I woke up. Every …
When I was eleven years old, I heard Billy Joel’s “Just The Way You Are” on AM radio. For the next fifteen years, I would do my best to sing just like Billy Joel—his tone, his inflections, from his ballad tenor to his growling rock and roll voice. My practicing how to sing like him …
A good number of years ago, while I was having a benign cyst removed from my back, my doctor asked me, “So, how do you see life? As a glass half empty, or a glass half full?” The question took me by surprise, especially since he was in the process of scalpeling the hell out …
What if: One day, we get a very short message from outer space, coming from a planet a million light years away. They tell us that they are building a virtual pipeline in space that will allow them to tap into our Internet, fluently translating our languages, images, and sounds. They would like to learn …
While organizing my e-mails I ran into this memo that I sent to myself: Life is infinite. Death is finite. If we limit ourselves, we become finite; we die. If we limit ourselves every day, every day we become finite. Every day we die. If we limit ourselves to finite measurements (money, status, etc.), we …
I just spent the last hour watching YouTube videos of Frank Caliendo. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Li6SgokJM&hl=en] What I like most about this video is the sound of everyone, including the TV crew, laughing their asses off. I too need a lozenge.
In recent years, I’ve been trying to understand the Why of traveling. If it is simply to see one more place than what has already been seen, then one could just keep seeing place after place, and not really know why. It would be like gluttony. If it is to go to a better place …
You knew that if you didn’t stay on top of the beat the beat would have its way with you. Your prayer of music wouldn’t be as sincere if you had followed someone else’s prayer. Your sound, almost indecipherable but we can hear your unrelenting effort, your patience carved as a psalm for us, right …
You keep going until your limbs catch a fever until your world becomes nothing but this one straining moment rewarded by a globe of air that you gulp down like instant mercy, giving you one more curl one more step one more crunch one more push one more past the number you thought was impossible …
in every moment a world is created a novel is written in the mind then burned as excess memory every bitterness is sweet every taste is reassessed to match the perfect vowel with the perfect tempo held in the hand and squeezed until there’s nothing but pulp every black becomes white and every white becomes …
Yesterday was Good Friday. While driving, I noticed the car washes had more than their usual number of Friday cars. I then remembered that it would be Easter Sunday tomorrow, and maybe a lot of people were getting their cars ready to go to church. I remember growing up, always wearing my best clothes to …
I began my day calling my spiritual big brother on the phone, to engage him in a 30-minute existential conversation, even before I had my morning coffee. During the conversation, we talked about the current state of the country, including the massive education and government layoffs in California. I mentioned to him that it seems …
In the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer, the young chess prodigy’s teacher tells his student that in order to win, a champion must regard his competition with contempt. The champion must believe that he is the only one who is worthy of winning. Only with that attitude can one continually win every match. In an …
Click on the video below, please. And listen to this guy sing. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZsoCW7hMvY] Instead of reading this, you will be better served if you simply went to www.youtube.com and did a search for “Arnel Pineda Journey“. And then read his wikipedia page. Arnel Pineda, a Filipino singer, is the new lead singer of the rock …
People are losing their jobs and their homes. People are struggling to survive. Some say that it’s a cycle, that it will work itself out if we just give it time. Meanwhile, people are losing their jobs and their homes. There is a moment when one simply gives up. That moment usually comes after the …
If I get enough sleep, I usually wake up with an empty mind. My bedroom is quiet, the sun is out behind the drawn shades, and over the next couple of minutes I recognize the different parts of the room. Everything in the room at that moment has equal importance. The TV is no more …
We gather at the failing tide singing our harbinger songs while dawn casts its amber net of morning. Then moonlight turns to a doubtable haze that sharpens to reveal the edge of a confident horizon Unyielding, unstoppable, it forces us to bury our petty woes under sand. Enough, it says Begin the day, it says …