Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Via NYTimes // Larry Kramer, Playwright and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84

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Larry Kramer, Playwright and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84 He worked hard to shock the country into deali...

Via White Crane Institute // From Oscar Wilde’s DE PROFUNDIS

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From Oscar Wilde’s DE PROFUNDIS I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should ...

Via White Crane Institute // RACHEL CARSON

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L to R: Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman 1907 - Marine biologist RACHEL CARSON was born on this date. She was born in...

Via White Crane Institute // WILD BILL HICKOK

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This Day in Gay History James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok 1837 - WILD BILL HICKOK is born in Troy Grove, Illinois. His...

Via Daily Dharma: What You Discover Through Buddhist Practice

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Practicing Buddhism is about discovering ourselves to be in a great, flowing river of continuities. —Roshi Joan Halifax,“Giving Birth to A...

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - May 27, 2020 💌

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"Being conscious is cutting through your own melodrama and being right here. Exist in no mind, be empty, here now, and trust that ...
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Via Daily Dharma: How to Unearth Natural Freedom

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Exposed to the lucidity of simple awareness, practice dissolves into a practice of no practice (which is not the same thing as abandoning...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Via White Crane Institute / SIR IAN McKELLEN

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Sir Ian McKellen 1939 - Today's the birthday of beloved stage and screen actor and long time Gay Rights advocate and hero...

Via Daily Dharma: Imagine the War Being Over

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Victory is no balm for loss. Any of us may celebrate a moment, but we live a long time, and finality is not what we need, compassion is w...
Sunday, May 24, 2020

Via Modern MET // Giant Buddha Is Surrounded With Harmonious Mound of 150,000 Lavender Plants

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Renowned Japanese architect Tadao Ando brings harmony to the landscape by enclosing a large stone Buddha in a lavender covered hi...

Via White Crane Institute // Tales of the City

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1976 - ARMISTEAD MAUPIN'S serialized epic Tales of the City makes its debut in The San Francisco Chronicle. That first appearance b...

Via Ram Dass - Love Serve Remember Foundation // Words of Wisdom - May 24, 2020 💌

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"One day I was sitting in a motel in middle America, and it was one of those really plastic Holiday Inn type places, and I had arrived...

Via Daily Dharma: Extend Compassion Toward Yourself

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Compassion for oneself... is the basis of an authentic and openhearted life. —Aura Glaser, “Into the Demon’s Mouth” CLICK HERE TO READ ...
Saturday, May 23, 2020

Pixar Sparkshort “Out” Disney+ Teaser Trailer

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The Saint of Dry Creek

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The local Toucan made a visit to a friend´s house

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  There are a pair of toucans who have und around OP for almost 15 years... a buddy posted this of one of them sporting the flag

Via Kalachakra by His Holiness the Dalai Lama // Happy Saga Dawa 2020

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🙏 — Happy Saga Dawa 2020 — 🙏 Today marks the first day of the “Saga Dawa” observed during the fourth month of the Tibetan calendar...

Via Daily Dharma: Concentrate Your Effort

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Intelligence or lack of it does not matter; between the dull and the sharp-witted there is no distinction. If you concentrate your effort...
Friday, May 22, 2020

Via White Crane Institute / Happy Harvey Milk Day!

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The Harvey Milk Forever stamp 1930 - Gay rights pioneer, martyr and San Francisco city supervisor HARVEY MILK was born on this...