forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack...a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
That is one of my most favorite songs of all time. Because I just LOVE finding cracks...like this one.
A group of disgruntled Republicans has jumped ship in Indiana’s U.S. Senate race.
The group, Republicans for Donnelly, said it won't support Republican Richard Mourdock because it doesn't like his rejection of bipartisanship and his refusal to compromise.
Outgoing Sen. Richard Lugar said he wants Mourdock to win, but won't work for him.
The small group whose formation was announced Thursday goes further, saying it will work for Democrat Joe Donnelly...
The half-dozen founding members said they are still Republicans, though some said they're struggling with what they see as an extreme rightward drift in the party.
Political expert Anne Phelan said the Republican Party of her youth is gone.
"They had Barry Goldwater, Gerald Ford and Nelson Rockefeller all in the same party,” said Phelan. “They had their tussles, but there was a respect for compromise. There was respect for different opinions. I don't see that in the Republican Party any more."
Interesting: he's got by all accounts a solid Buddhist practice, and here you have it in the lyric:
ReplyDeleteDon't dwell on what
has passed away
or what is yet to be.
I gather he practices right near where I went to school, at the Mt. Baldy Zen Center at the eastern end of Los Angeles County. A buddy of mine spent a week sitting on the cushion next to him on a retreat. Didn't break silence, either. In my drinking days, I'd go up to Baldy to a little lodge there and do my usual self-destruction. I haven't yet practiced at the Baldy Center but I am under the impression that Sasaki Roshi, who instructed a good friend, is still teaching well at 103 years old.
Tangential observation, but you reminded me that I think L Cohen is a good guy.
You know, if everyone in DC would just not dwell in the future or in the past, we'd be a lot better off.
Bill - I consider myself buddhist as well, albeit largely out of practice. I think that a person devoted to public service (including politicians) had better think about the future a lot more than any of those on the political right do.
ReplyDeleteAnyone on the left could have predicted the BP Oil spill, and thus we pour millions of dollars into a futile attempt to introduce green energy to America. We can also expect more war, inequality, corporate fascism and an absolute end of the middle class if Mitt Romney and a Republican Congress are given license to "outsource America" for fun and profit.
Florida: you plan in the present.
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