Entries from July 2008
The “God” Part of the Brain: A Scientific Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God . . . and a Personal Journey (2006, originally published 1996) by Matthew Alper is an essay, really, and it’s hardly scientific. Rather the book is a general and incomplete survey of religious practice and persecution undertaken by the author ostensibly to discover for himself whether there is a God, a subject of interest to him because he knows that he will, one day, die. Read more... (498 words, 2 images, estimated 2:0 mins reading time)
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Tags: Emotional Freedom · Non Fiction
I happened to be halfway through Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion when I went to a dinner party. I was sitting happily on a bench in some cool people’s garden and getting pine sap on my $98 silk skirt, while trying to make conversation like I know what I’m saying. I offered “I think people who believe in God are idiots.” Read more... (533 words, 4 images, estimated 2:08 mins reading time)
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Tags: Emotional Freedom · Non Fiction · Social Psychology
Much has been made lately of Chinese and Japanese doing better than Americans on IQ tests. Specifically, they score better on the abstract/spacial thinking and not quite as well on verbal thinking, for a net higher average IQ, as it’s measured. Read more... (181 words, 2 images, estimated 43 secs reading time)
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Tags: Non Fiction · Social Psychology
Shine (1996) turns out to be a rather romantic movie. It’s the story of a young prodigy pianist who loses it at music college, turns into a pleasure-seeking adult without proper social constraints, an idiot-savant, if you will, and ends up getting lucky in middle age.
The movie is a loose adaption of the life of David Helfgott, an Australian concert pianist. Read more... (1 word, 2 images, estimated 0 secs reading time)
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Tags: Emotional Freedom · Movies Worth Watching · Relationships
I just watched a very sweet movie, Sex, Lies, and Videotape(1989).
Andie MacDowell shines as a newly married housewife, Ann, caught in a love quadrangle. The movie has a slow, dreamy pace that runs at the speed of Ann’s unfolding. We follow her as she figures out what’s going on and brings into alignment what she wants and who she is with what she has. Read more... (8 words, 2 images, estimated 2 secs reading time)
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Tags: Emotional Freedom · Movies Worth Watching · Relationships
Claire's Original Art Greeting Cards
There is nothing that says I care like a real snail-mail greeting card!
Click on a picture above for a plain-paper printable greeting card pdf.
Print on regular 8.5 by 11 printer paper. Fold twice so that the art is on the front and the title and copyright are on the back.
Write your greeting on the inside.
Mail in an A2 Invitation Envelope.
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