“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.” – Ben Okri

http://thinkexist.com/quotes/ben_okri/  

Also the rebirth of reason:

http://rebirthofreason.com/Articles/Schieder/Our_Capacity_To_Think.shtml

 

Here Pidgie Pidge :-)

 

21 Amazing Facts You Didn't Know About Pigeons

http://forums.manhattanbirdclub.com/post?id=2335098

Pidgeon Talk

http://www.pigeons.biz/forums/f35/

I can bring my chicken inside!

This is Spirit, and she is available for adoption in San Francisco.
http://www.rescuereport.org/2010/01/spirit.html
I was so excited to find out there is such a thing as "chicken panties"
http://www.birdwearonline.com/gallery.html
I want an inside chicken, and now I can have one!
Here is how to use "bird wear"
http://www.birdwearonline.com/using.html
Here is how to measure your chicken
http://www.birdwearonline.com/considerations.html

Move Over America

http://www.moveoveramerica.com/
It's the law!!!!
I did not know this!!!!

Bibliography
Internet Sources

Born to a prosperous Danish family and educated at Copenhagen, Kierkegaard deliberately fostered his public reputation as a frivolous, witty conversationalist while suffering privately from severe melancholy and depression. In a series of (mostly pseudonymous) books, Kierkegaard rebelled against the prevailing Hegelianism of his time and developed many themes that would later be associated with the philosophy of existentialism. Much of his work, including Frygt og Bæven: Dialectisk Lyrik (Fear and Trembling) (1843), Begrebet Angest (The Concept of Dread) (1844), (Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing) (1847), and Sygdomen Til Døden (The Sickness unto Death) (1849), expressed a profound interest in religious issues. Kierkegaard also produced several more directly philosophical writings. Om Begrebet Ironi (The Concept of Irony) (1841) was his dissertation at the University of Copenhagen. Enten-Eller (Either-Or) (1843) provides an extended contrast between aesthetic and ethical ways of life, with emphasis on the ways in which radical human freedom inevitably leads to despair. The massive Afsluttende Uvidenskabelig Efterskrift (Concluding Unscientific Postscript) (1846) describes a third way of life, the possibility of living by faith in the modern world by emphasizing the importance of the individual and developing a conception of subjective truth. Kierkegaard's influence on twentieth-century thought has been rich and varied. Most obviously, existentialist thinkers like Jaspers and Heidegger drew extensively on his analysis of despair and freedom. Although he directly addressed few of the social concerns that most interested his contemporary, Karl Marx, Kierkegaard has received ample attention from more recent Marxists, including Marcuse and Lukacs. Philosophers from Adorno to Wittgenstein have expressed great respect for the Danish master's thought.

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Recommended Reading: Primary sources: Søren Kerkegaards samlede vaerker, ed. by A. B. Drachmann, J. L. Heiberg, and H. O. Lange (Gyldendal, 1962-1964) Kierkegaard's Writings, ed. by Edna H. Hong and Howard V. Hong (Princeton, 1978- ) Vol. 2: The Concept of Irony (1992) {Order from Amazon.com} Vol. 3: Either / Or 1 (1988) {Order from Amazon.com} Vol. 4: Either / Or 2 (1988) {Order from Amazon.com} Vol. 5: Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses (1992) {Order from Amazon.com} Vol. 6: Fear and Trembling / Repetition (1983) {Order from Amazon.com} Vol. 8: The Concept of Anxiety {Order from Amazon.com} Vol. 12.1: Concluding Unscientific Postscript 1 (1992) {Order from Amazon.com} Vol. 12.2: Concluding Unscientific Postscript 2 (1992) {Order from Amazon.com} Vol. 19: The Sickness Unto Death (1983) {Order from Amazon.com} Edna H. Hong, Howard V. Hong, and Nathaniel J. Hong, Cumulative Index to Kierkegaard's Writings (Princeton, 2000) {Order from Amazon.com} The Essential Kierkegaard, ed. by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, 2000) {Order from Amazon.com} Søren Kierkegaard, Either / Or: A Fragment of Life, tr. by Alastair Hannay (Penguin, 1992) {Order from Amazon.com} Secondary sources: Patrick L. Gardiner, Kierkegaard (Oxford, 1988) {Order from Amazon.com} The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard, ed. by Alastair Hannay and Gordon Daniel Marino (Cambridge, 1997) {Order from Amazon.com} Feminist Interpretations of Søren Kierkegaard, ed. by Celine Leon and Sylvia Walsh (Penn. State, 1997) {Order from Amazon.com} Merold Westphal, Becoming a Self: A Reading of Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript (Purdue, 1996) {Order from Amazon.com} George Pattison , Kierkegaard's Upbuilding Discourses: Philosophy, Theology, Literature (Routledge, 2002) {Order from Amazon.com} Additional on-line information about Kierkegaard includes: William McDonald's article in * The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong Kierkegaard Library. The thorough collection of resources at EpistemeLinks.com. Interesting pages from virtuSens. D. Anthony Storm's Kierkegaard Site. Kierkegaard on the Internet from Ilse Morgensen. The article in the Columbia Encyclopedia at Bartleby.com. Luc Desautels's essay on Kierkegaard (in French) at Encéphi. Antoinette Stafford on Kierkegaard's notion of subjective faith. Katharena Eiermann's tribute to Kierkegaard at The Realm of Existentialism. Björn Christensson's brief guide to on-line resources. Robert Sarkissian's summary of Kierkegaard's philosophy. The entry at Biography.com.

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CoExist

The coexist sign is one of my favorite peace symbols.
It's message is that all people can live peacefully together
if we are just tolerant of the beliefs of others.
Here's what each symbol means:
C = the symbol for Islam
O = the Pentacle for Pagans/Wicca
E = Male/Female symbols
X = the Star of David for Judaism
I = the Peace symbol (in the dot)
S = the Yin-Yang symbol for Taoism
T = the Cross for Christians

Goats in Oakland??

OH, or was that cows in Berkley??
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1914584_1918332,00.html
which ever, Oakland or Berkley, I love urban farms!!

Missionaries of Charity

Just to share......
http://www.angelfire.com/md2/poor/mother.html

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1672062_1463713,00.html
See the story at the above link.

My girl......

Rosie the Riveter (1944)

Cell Phones through time

From Time Magazine!
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1636836_1389493,00.html

Need to wake up??

http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/accessories/5a65/

Digital Blasphemy

Wonderful site, beautiful art!!

http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/dbhome.shtml

worth visiting and supporting!!

Very Useful Website :-)

http://www.sanitarium.net/personal/

This is what

I want for my birthday!!

The New iMac

Talk about eye candy.......

Yum Yum iMac

C.S. Lewis

Quote worth noting:
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

IBM put on its Thinking Cap :-)

IBM Home Page:
http://www.ibm.com/us/en/

A Smarter Planet:
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/smartplanet/20081106/index.shtml?sa_campaign=message/ideas/learnabout/all/smarterplanet

THINK:
http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/think/index.shtml?loadSect=planet2&ca=agus_brthinklp-20081111&me=banner&met=words&re=nyt&s_tact=106aw01w&cm_mmc=agus_brthinklp-20081111-106aw01w-_-b-_-words-_-nyt

DistroWatch

I really like this website:
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fedora
as well as VersionTracker for Windows or MAC:
http://www.versiontracker.com/windows/
I also like cnet downloads:
http://www.download.com/windows/
Just FYI
:-)