Archive for February, 2009

America Beyond Compare?

- - - “Anything you can do, I can do better.” -Irving Berlin, America’s songwriter Why does everything American have to be better than everything else? My mom lives in a comfortable community in South Florida, as does a friend’s dad, whom I saw recently for the first time in decades. His first words to […]

Meditating On The Recession

- - - On the 26th of January 2009, billions of Chinese and other Asians, throughout the world, will welcome the first day of its Ox Year, with much trepidation, fear of loss of jobs and changes in their life-style and wealth. Whilst their expectations are real, there is a noble way out! -Vietnamese Buddhist […]