silent thunder

My son and I love this series! He was about 8 when we first watched it together on netflix a few years back and the concepts and story lines inspired many potent conversations about some incredibly deep topics. Just last week he brought out the dvd's and we are now working our way through the series for the second time. We just passed the assault of Bah Sing Sei. I appreciate it even more this time around. General Iroh is a compelling blend of duty to his station and country while maintaining a non-judemental accepting openness to his former enemies while hiding among them as a refugee. And Zuko's overall storyline is an incredible journey of self discovery, and the painful systematic stripping away of projected notions of culture, self, family and duty. His story arch to the end of the tale is in a word stunning. Such writing and conceptual topics make it far more than a children's show to me. I deeply love this series.

sparklies!

*deep bow* thank you!

North is home.

long, loving exhale...

Looks like I'll have another great book on 'the pile' soon... thanks for sharing.

Grandmother!

it's not about my finger when it's pointing to the moon

nice! it's a coin toss with me... waders or barefoot armor or squishing toes either way, i'm not into socks

how does one clean their boots after walking through a bog?

microbiome

How incredible! What a great story! Thanks for sharing. It seems like this was surely the inspiration for that great Taoist film Being There. Peter Seller's portrayal of a taoist sage idiot in that is on another level.

Thinking of you GrandmasterP and missing your presence.

Running Wolf

Well said... science is not free from assumption and dogma. Due diligence always.

timely shift

mmm... science!!

the space between

flummoxed

satori

While it certainly seems to be beneficial in the long run, it's far from a pleasant process... inquiring into one's true nature. When successful, nothing withstands the process... all of our preconceptions about our self, notions of good and evil, projections and false senses of 'other', false notions, long held illusions, beliefs all incinerated in the unrelenting flame of authentic awareness.

soothing

return of the light! the longest, loveliest night. Solstice shining bright!

nope

Perfection! I'll bring the Ginger Tea.