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Pink for October

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Don’t Wash Your Bluetooth Headset With Your Laundry

Sunday my phone needed a charge. When this happens I plug my iPhone into the computer and put on my headset so I can walk around my house and still talk. The headset was bugging me that day so I put it in my shirt pocket. I proceeded to eat lunch and naturally spilled on my shirt. Since Sunday is a laundry day in my house, I dropped the shirt into the washing machine with the next load.
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A day at the museum

Milwaukee has an excellent art museum. Little people know that on Wednesdays the museum is free for Milwaukee residents. I took my 9 and 10 year old this week and we had a blast viewing and discussing all the great works. Milwaukee has pieces from ancient Egypt and Greece to Kansinsky, Lichtenstein, Picasso and Warhol. If you haven’t been there in a while check it out soon.

Quotes

I wish more people would follow these rules. Life is about experience, yet so many of us work so hard to shut ourselves off from the experience.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. - Buddha

Of course it goes without saying that even this comes from Buddha, it to should be subject to its own logic and only be taken once experienced.

Quote: From the Venerable Theodor Geisel

I read AmidaBuddha.org daily. It is always refreshing to learn something new or to see how others view the world. Sometimes I am inspired and other times I am confused and contemplative of the quotes they produce. Typically they will quote a great Buddhist author or teacher. Occasionally the reference people like Einstein. Today we have one from one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century. He is an author and illustrator that everyone in my generation grew up with. He has a musical that was produced about his work. And there have been several very successful conversions of his work into movies on both the large and small screens.

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere… If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good. - Dr. Seuss, One Fish two fish red fish blue fish, 1960

For me this quote touches base with something the Dalai Lama said yesterday in his speech at Colgate University. Everything can be viewed from different perspectives. In some of these perspectives the situation or object is good and others it is bad. If you take the time and practice to release yourself from the fears and preconceptions you have about all the time and carefully examine everything from all possible angles, you will be able to enjoy more things.