http://garethjyoung.com/blog A journal on a Bohemian lifestyle: author, entrepreneur, and Zen Buddhist Thu, 01 Jan 2009 20:03:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a very funny commentary on the market collapse, made months before it occurred. It is quite prescient. http://garethjyoung.com/blog/2009/01/01/bird-and-fortune-on-the-market/ Dear World: The United States of America , your quality supplier of ideals of liberty and democracy, would like to apologize for its 2001-2008 service outage. The technical fault that led to this eight-year service interruption has been located, and the software responsible was replaced Tuesday night, November 4. Early tests of ... http://garethjyoung.com/blog/2009/01/01/blanket-apology/ I find the ongoing healthcare debate shocking for a reason that rarely even surfaces. It is an issue of paradigm, and the debate proves Thomas Kuhn's concept so right. As a society we have locked ourselves into the paradigm of regarding health as something we insure, and all discussion is ... http://garethjyoung.com/blog/2008/08/23/health-insurance-renamed/ This was sent to me, and it took my breath away. Watch it; it speaks for itself. In reply, a friend sent me this: http://garethjyoung.com/blog/2008/05/26/battle-at-kruger/ Atlanta continues to suffer from a drought resulting in the Governor's ban on outdoor water. This is a difficult situation, but it is being worsened by the lack of public response. I can understand people not understanding water table issues and questioning a lack of water when we have had ... http://garethjyoung.com/blog/2008/04/20/what-drought/ After writing last on balance, I had a powerful experience yesterday that brings to mind another important aspect of a healthy life. Out of the blue an old friend who I hadn't seen for years showed up at the Zen Center. It was pure happenstance that I was there myself, ... http://garethjyoung.com/blog/2008/03/17/the-importance-of-attitude/ Blogging itself is a good example of this point; I find myself accumulating ideas and forgetting them, then in a burst composing several and interacting with others' in a short period of time before going quiet for months. This intensity of effort comes at the expense of so much else. ... http://garethjyoung.com/blog/2008/03/05/the-importance-of-balance-2/ Blogging itself is a good example of this point; I find myself accumulating ideas and forgetting them, then in a burst composing several and interacting with others' in a short period of time before going quiet for months. This intensity of effort comes at the expense of so much else. ... http://garethjyoung.com/blog/2008/03/05/the-importance-of-balance/ I was fortunate enough to have my trip to the UK followed rather quickly by a visit from an old university buddy whose wife is doing a stint at Harvard. Their kids, Ailish and Kieran, were even better behaved that Bill and Aedin, and we had a couple of delightful ... http://garethjyoung.com/blog/2007/08/11/on-the-origin-of-language/ I just returned from my long-anticipated trip to the UK to visit my mother. She has been suffering from late-stage secondary cancer for well over six months, and gave up on chemotherapy that was not working three months ago. The first stage of the trip was a few days at ... http://garethjyoung.com/blog/2007/08/05/a-summer-of-insanity/