Long ago, when the skies darkened under a solar eclipse, our ancestors shot arrows at the sky and banged drums to scare away the dragon who was eating the Sun. Today we’ve traded the hungry dragon theory of eclipses for the understanding that eclipses are perfectly natural phenomenon involving synchronized path crossings of the Sun, Moon and Earth. [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Moments Out of Time: On Eclipses
Posted in Uncategorized on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Oprah’s Surprise Ending
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Oprah Winfrey came out of the closet this week. In the final hour of her iconic talk show she revealed that she is not the generic new age seeker she has presented herself to be. Underneath the public persona she has nurtured so religiously (as it were) over her two and a half decades on the air, Oprah is, it turns out, an unmitigated, “To [...]
O Canada: Post Election Blues
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Look around you. The Apocalypse is in full bloom. The Revelations are coming through like hardballs. We are trying to adapt to the heightened surrealism of the evening news. Things on the Matrix are not looking good. There are extremes and emergencies everywhere. Sometimes I am frozen in the headlights. I tell myself to remember [...]
