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Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:12:45 -0800

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Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:38:07 -0800

Chronicles of Narnia and Dreams

Two things on my mind....

First, my brother emailed from MN that he remembered the name of the song that the Saturday Night Live guys were singing in one of their 'digital shorts.' It was the "Chronicles of Narnia." I don't know if anyone saw this but it's so amazing. Here is a link to it if you want to see it. "Narnia SNL"

Second, I slept a lot yesterday and my excuse is that I drank too much red wine while making cookies the day before, and I'm still tired from travelling over the holidays. After sleeping I stayed in bed reading a magazine that I only seem to find when I'm travelling. It's called "Seed," and it's a magazine about science and culture. I like, although some of it is too heady for me. I started reading an interview between Michael Gondry and a scientist named Robert Stickgold about dreaming. Gondry wrote and directed many music videos and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind."
In this article they are talking about what dreams are, or aren't. They talk about memory, but also about how science doesn't know much about dreams. Being a Tibetan Buddhist, I have the same feeling over and over again when reading this science stuff... the Tibetans, and Indian Siddhas, have already looked into this stuff, and already know more than you do (western science). Western science is trying to figure it out in their own way I guess. But Tibetans and Indians have been studying the mind for a long long time, and it was almost exclusively what Tibetan lamas did. This is what meditation is. It's studying your mind. Maybe I'll say more later, but that is it for now.

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Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:58:53 -0800

Here is a picture taken out of my dad's picture window of my first snow storm of the year.

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Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:30:55 -0800

Happy New Year! Thanks to my friends for messages. I hope everyone has a great start to their new year.

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Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:17:14 -0700

me with my bike in williamsburg.

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Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:09:36 -0700

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This is one of my paintings- more i'llustrative than most, but anyway... now it belongs to Rhese

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Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:51:32 -0700

Blair, Arnie 'global warming pact'

Monday July 31, 2006
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Britain and California are preparing to sidestep the Bush administration and fight global warming together by creating a joint market for greenhouse gases.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger plan to lay the groundwork for a new trans-Atlantic market in carbon dioxide emissions, The Associated Press has learned.

Such a move could help California cut carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases scientists blame for warming the planet. President George W. Bush has rejected the idea of ordering such cuts.

Blair and Schwarzenegger were expected to announce their collaboration Monday afternoon in Los Angeles, according to documents provided by British government officials on condition of anonymity because the announcement was forthcoming.

The aim is to fix a price on carbon pollution, an unwanted byproduct of burning fossil fuels like coal, oil and gasoline. The idea is to set overall caps for carbon and reward businesses that find a profitable way to minimize their carbon emissions, thereby encouraging new, greener technologies.

Monday's meeting was being hosted by Steve Howard, CEO of The Climate Group, and John Browne, chairman of British Petroleum. British and American business leaders planned to use it to also discuss other ways of accelerating use of low-carbon technologies.

The world's only mandatory carbon trading program is in Europe. Created in conjunction with the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 international treaty that took effect last year, it caps the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from power plants and factories in more than two dozen countries.

Companies can trade rights to pollute directly with each other or through exchanges located around Europe as long as the cap is met. Canada, one of more than 160 nations that signed Kyoto, plans a similar program.

Although the United States is one of the few industrialized nations that hasn't signed the treaty, some eastern U.S. states are developing a regional cap-and-trade program. And some U.S. companies have voluntarily agreed to cap their carbon pollution as part of a new Chicago-based market.

A main target of the agreement between Britain and California is the carbon from cars, trucks and other modes of transportation. Transportation accounts for an estimated 41 percent of California's greenhouse gas emissions and 28 percent of Britain's.

Schwarzenegger has called on California to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to 2000 levels by 2010. California was the 12th largest source of greenhouse gases in the world last year, bigger than most nations.

Blair has called on Britain to reduce carbon emissions to 60 percent of its 1990 levels by 2050. Britain also has been looking at imposing individual limits on carbon pollution. People who accumulate unused carbon allowances -- for example, by driving less, or switching to less polluting vehicles -- could sell them to people who exceed their allowances -- for example by driving more.

Bush has resisted Blair's efforts to make carbon reduction a top international priority. After taking office, Bush reversed a 2000 campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide emissions, then withdrew U.S. support from the Kyoto treaty requiring industrialized nations to cut their greenhouse gases to below 1990 levels.

The United States is responsible for a quarter of the world's global warming pollution. Bush administration officials argue that requiring cuts in greenhouse gases would cost the U.S. economy 5 million jobs.

Instead, the administration has poured billions of dollars into research aimed at slowing the growth of most greenhouse gases while advocating a global cut on one of them, methane.

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Mon, 17 Jul 2006 07:52:47 -0700

Thanks to everyone who has been visiting my page!

I have been out of town in Vermont doing a Tibetan Shambhala Buddhist meditation retreat for the last few weeks. It was so amazing! Now I'm trying to get used to all this technology again (we had no computers, cells, tv or radio- and it was so nice!). I got to meditate, meet amazing people, have parties, play a little basketball, look at my mind and hear great teachings. I slowed down a lot and am resisting speeding up again.

My heart is continually broken and it's like melting pudding all over inside this body. Good, sweet, warm, mushy, annoying and amazing.

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Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:37:21 -0700

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Check out "An Inconvenient Truth." I saw it this weekend and it was very good. http://www.climatecrisis.net/thescience/
I also read the book "The Long Emergency" by James Howard Kunstler a couple of months ago and highly recommend it. It has information on the oil crisis, alternative energy options and global weather shifts. It changed the way in which I see and live in the world... and although it is scarey - I am so glad that my friend MADE me read it.
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Tue, 16 May 2006 15:08:20 -0700

One of my recent paintings.