(#30/365) Offerings

"On life's journey Faith is nourishment,
Virtuous deeds are a shelter,
Wisdom is the light by day and Right mindfulness is the protection by night.
If a man lives a pure life nothing can destroy him;
If he has conquered greed nothing can limit his freedom."



Title: Buddha & Nicely Rosetta
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Kate is a sun worshipper - and this morning was no exception. over at the middle school on the steaming asphalt watching the sun come over the trees. With all the heavy rain last night - everything that the sun touches this morning is steaming like a pasta pot. It's a beautiful morning out!

so utterly, completely inexcuseably contemptable!

So - Gunn High School here in Palo Alto has seen a tragic deaths of four of their young people committing suicide in front of Caltrain trains this year.

I wish I was making that up - it sounds so unbelievable. The campus has been struggling to find healing and to help the students make sense of these awful events.

so - Fred Phelps and Co - sang outside of Gunn High School yesterday - to the tune of "America the Beautiful," Phelps and the other Westboro protesters sang: "Oh Sodomites, your kids are killed by trains. Your moral compasses are broken, your teachers are to blame."

Such terrible, awful hate speech. Oh how I dislike this. it makes my blood boil.

It is impossible for me to have compassion for such terrible people.

is your clothes washer having that not-so-fresh feeling?

David and I had a tender emotional moment over breakfast this morning. David had been trying to tell me something over the last few days; you could see him pacing wondering how to bring up the difficult subject... and it finally came out over breakfast this morning - that he has a deep seeded suspicion that I use too much clothes washing soap per load.

He produced a clipped out copy of this Wall Street Journal article for me to read as the basis for his suspicions. The article is titled: "The Great American Soap Overdose: Too Much Detergent Makes Our Clothes Dingy and Our Machines Smell. Can New Products Break Our Sudsy Habit?" The article basically says that Americans use too much detergent - and it can make clothes loose colour AND make them more wrinkly. (and he had just asked me about what was I doing to laundry that was making things more wrinkly; I suggested it was leaving his laundry in the dryer for several days rather than taking out it right before the buzzer and folding it while it is toasty warm...)

We've been wondering what to do about a mildewy smell in the laundry room - and he has suspected it was something with mold in the washer. and so - we discussed the article and agreed to use less soap (or perhaps actually measure rather than "once around the load" like he's seen me do previously).

LOL! It was a laundry soap intervention!

So we were soon off to Best Buy - where we picked up a package of the WSJ article-reccomended deodorizer/cleaner for our washer and it's now churning its way through the first tablet in the washer. Dave feels like we've taken a step forward in our relationship - I'm glad that I also picked up a 2G memory card (upgrading from a 256mb) for my camera on sale! NATCH! So it's a good day.