I attended Occupy Philadelphia City Hall on 10/23/11.  Occupy is the new form of protest where a mass of people literally occupy space.  It can be city hall, wall street, the federal reserve, major street or route, a college campus or a front yard.  As of the writing of this post, Occupy Wall Street has been going on for about a month and since I'm in New Jersey, I figured I head up there and occupy too.  But in my head it was "one day" I'll go up there.  And then it hit me, the time is right now! Why do I Occupy? Why do I care?  In 2008, while living in a condo complex, my...

Today I got angry.  Yes!  Just 13 days from 10 day retreat in silence.  And I had to use meditation to get to bottom of the anger.  (If you haven't read my previous article, I recently attended a Vipassana Meditation retreat, where I spent 10 days in silence meditating for 10 hrs a day, read the article here.)  When the anger crept up, the first thing I did was to stop it, but I really wanted to experience and ride the wave with it and I have to admit, I did for about 30 seconds.  But what I learned from 10 days in silence, and guys let me tell this was no party so I didn't want all...

I'm back and here to spread joy, love, peace and happiness!  I just spent 10 days in silence and meditating for 10 hrs a day at the Vipassana Meditation Center in Jesup, GA.  Vipassana meditation is a mind purification meditation so therefore no communication, entertainment or exercise or anything that brings the mind to outside of being in the moment and feeling the body’s sensations.  If you’ve never taken a Vipassana meditation course it is unlike any other practice of meditation.  Instead of just simply trying to quiet the mind, the purpose it to purify the mind by 1. Observing...

It's 30 degrees F in Camden, NJ and I go out to get a brisk power walk in the cold before I start my daily blog life excerpt.  I always take my camera just in case I find something interesting on the way.  And I come by a trash can full of neatly folded children clothes.  The clothes make me question, "How can the residents of city with so little of...everything... afford to throw out good clothes?"  Just so you have the stats for the city of Camden: Estimated median household income in 2009: $26,752 Estimated per capita income in 2009: $12,808 Estimated median house or condo value...

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Coincidentally my 1st post of the year is on the last day of the 2010.  I've been spending the last week clearing up loose ends and finishing projects for me and my clients' sites so that I can feel a since of accomplishment.  It's not like I need the New Year to make me work "harder better faster stronger," but the new year coming in brings everything that is unfinished into prospective. My blog is about my blog life, living and making life that is completely interactive online. My review of 2010 - What was all great - It was my get out year the Year It was the year Unleashed my Power...