As I was walking home, it started raining one and a half blocks before I got to my house. I had an umbrella in my backpack, but I opted not to use it. I wanted to have the experience of being rained on. I highly recommend the experience.
Category: spirituality
i am a total Baha’i calendar geek
I have had a geek-fascination with the Baha'i calendar (also know as the Badi calendar) ever since rediscovering the Baha'i Faith last summer.
five years in Madison, Wisconsin, part III
I mean, it was as if bricks and mortar were falling out of the sky in front of me and mysteriously arranging themselves into a house right at the point I desperately needed shelter. And I wouldn’t have even walked in the direction of such a miracle had it not been for a mysterious gut feeling 2 ½ years before.
five years in madison, wisconsin, part II
This left me with no time to take my extra posessions to Goodwill. Instead, a dresser, a nice coffee table, a couch, and a chair ended up in the alley. I think the dumpster divers named the alley after me.
it’s almost Christmas Day
To me the song is about feeling lost and being found again due to God's grace. I soooooo identify with that. My first few years in Madison were very difficult for me. This year I feel like I've been through the wringer again, too, but I also feel like I've been showered with the grace of God. So I would like to reprint these lyrics for anyone who has felt or feels lost. If anyone knows who wrote the song, please tell me. I want to shake the person's hand, and of course give credit where credit is due.
declaration
So for now, just mark the time at 7:52 p.m., November 19, 2007. At that very moment, I declared myself a Baha'i.
documentary night at the co-op house
A housemate of mine has decided to start a weekly “documentary night” at the co-op house in an effort to get housemates together and enjoy some good video documentaries.
the day the sun crossed the equator
Now here I was again at Gillson Beach with the dome of the Baha'i Temple behind me in the distance--this time as a Wisconsin resident writing 150 miles from my home. Nevertheless, Lake Michigan was once again witness to the many conversations going on in my head, and boy, they were talking up a storm this time.
on a quiet walk through James Madison Park after dropping a heavy piece of news
After I made my last post, I decided to go out for a walk to James Madison Park for some exercise and to think quietly to myself.
i am leaving Mahikari
But what I’ve posted about Mahikari is only half the story. It was only half of me talking.