Change the World Smiley
Smiley people make the world a better place simply through being alive. Happy people change the world by getting up in the morning. You want to change the world? Find your happiness and smile often!

Quotes to Inspire Change
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.- JOHN F. KENNEDY
The efficiency [...]

Create Your Day
Hi Everyone - life is busy and I am working on an essay about liberty and freedom so much of my writing time is going into that right now. I did want to share something a work colleague of mine (Thanks G.) turned me onto. This is very related to the [...]

9-14-02
(This post was a continuation from my last one where I am drawing a distinction between pain and suffering)
A couple of days ago I referred to a master (Buddha) saying something to theeffect of “Nirvana is the cessation of suffering”. I don’t think that thathis understanding is different than your own and I will explain [...]

Sharing the Dream with Shelby and Scott
On a hilltop on the Northern California coast, surrounded by wild purple irises I found the words I wanted to say to my friends Shelby and Scott during their wedding ceremony. Of course I cried my way through most of it so I thought posting them here would [...]