A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Via JMG: Vladimir Putin: I'm Not Homophobic, I've Given Awards To Those People
Vladimir Putin: I'm Not Homophobic, I've Given Awards To Those People
"I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don’t see anything out of the ordinary here. They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don’t love him because of that, but he was a great musician, and we all love his music. So what?" - Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking to the Associated Press.
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma:
Tricycle Daily Dharma September 4, 2013
On Silence
Silence
arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of
noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees,
as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.
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- Barbara Hurd, "On Silence"
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