Posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2006 | 3 Comments »
World Day should be a good day for resolutions, but New Year’s Day already has that covered, and I seem to have made my resolution with yesterday’s “truth, metaphor, peace, and blogging.”
World Week is a secular holiday that takes no position on religion, but I keep thinking it maps fairly well onto most religions. You [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged quotes, world week on December 31, 2006 | No Comments »
Antarctica is Greek for “opposite the Arctic.” It’s the third-smallest continent, larger than Australia and Europe. It has no permanent residents. In 1959, a treaty was signed by twelve nations, formally making Antarctica a continent without countries that is owned by no country.
A plaque in Antarctica bears this quote by one of its early explorers, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 30, 2006 | 9 Comments »
I used to think I blogged to share things that were true or helpful. Now I want to change the “or” to “and.” I used to think that literal truth was always good. Now I think it’s often irrelevant. We each choose different metaphors for the need to help others. Does it matter if the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 30, 2006 | 2 Comments »
It’s the sixth day of World Week. For us, it’s Asia Day!
Asia’s name refers to the east, the land of the sunrise, and probably comes from an Akkadian root.
Asia is the largest continent and the most populated. Geologically, it’s part of Eurasia. It includes the subcontinents of India and Arabia. The world’s most popular religions [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 30, 2006 | 2 Comments »
José Rizal was killed on this day. He’s a national hero of the Filipines, a writer and pacifist who has been called a precursor to Gandhi. He was executed for revolution, though he was a pacifist; some say his execution caused the Philippine revolution. I wish I’d known about him earlier. His life is astonishing. [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged world week on December 30, 2006 | 7 Comments »
Kon Tiki - Restaurant & Lounge - Tucson, AZ
It’s an excellent example of Hollywood Pacificana. Great classic tiki decor, good food and drinks. I don’t know why banana bread comes with the main courses, but it’s good banana bread, moist and not too sweet. The vegetarian options are limited: Emma and I shared the egg [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged wealth on December 29, 2006 | No Comments »
From World Distribution of Household Wealth:
The richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of global household wealth according to a path-breaking study released today by the Helsinki-based World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER).The most comprehensive study of personal wealth ever undertaken also reports that [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged world week on December 29, 2006 | 6 Comments »
It’s the fifth day of World Week. For us, it’s Australia and Oceania Day!
Last night, we made jollof rice and African peanut soup from a Vegetarian Times cookbook. The soup was great. The jollof rice didn’t turn out as well; the quantities for the recipe were insane, and I ended up with way too much [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on December 28, 2006 | 6 Comments »
BBC NEWS | Health | Time for rethink on the clitoris:
For two millennia it was a ‘little hill’ - the meaning of kleitoris, its root word in Greek.
But an Australian urologist, Dr Helen O’Connell, has revealed that the clitoris is shaped more like a mountain than a hill.
Her work is forcing a re-write of anatomy [...]
Posted in seeker, tagged world week on December 28, 2006 | No Comments »
It’s the fourth day of World Week. In Arizona, it’s Africa Day!
Now, you may think yesterday was Next Neighbor Day. That’s because World Week is still in beta. I didn’t like numbered neighbors, so I’ve tweaked the system: Neighbor Day, Near Neighbor Day, Next Neighbor Day, Further Neighbor Day, Far Neighbor Day, World Day.
I’m a [...]
