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I Don't Live Near A Starbucks-I Live In One!

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Greeti ngs from Caffeine Central, Bean and Nothingness : the 800 lb gorilla - St arbu c k s . I don't live near one, I live in one; a mad, mad, Starbucks world. It's tomorrow,and tomorrow is my permanent address! Just like Seinfeld is a show about nothing---Starbucks has nothing to do with coffee. Starbucks is just like Seinfeld Every year I find myself watching a little more of it. SBUX---America's favorite drug dealer is serving up, what Europeans call "Dirty Water"They have persuaded tens of millions of people to spend $4 for what had been a $1 product." That's an amazing-getting less for more value proposition. Drinking OK coffee and standing in line to buy it. The cult of the amateur, the army of one, patronizing the YOUniverse. Now that's EGOomics. Thank you Kid Starbucks--open-minded, we-centric, candid, devoted to progress, personally accountable, curious, and confident ---Kid Starbucks, Thank you for taking some of the quo out of the stat...

In The Sky-

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I'm home from the sea, my soul(sole) melody I’ve been away roaming far away from here weathered some storms, my heart unafraid crossed every ocean in the boat (of love) that you made Been blowing my horn, scaring the spooks No crotchets or quavers in my books Gone sailing all night, straight in the vein like Perry (a bird) on his own flight in his domain in the sky Running in on the tide with the first of the stars the moon on the water and the sound of guitars Glide into the homing as the night falls to tie up in the haven by the old harbour wall And the hard-bitten stranger as deaf as a post who stands at the fire where a poet’s dreams roast He can’t know the story, he can’t feel the pain and all of the glory falls around him like rain in the sky You’re a light in the dark, a beacon of hope and strong as a sea boat, strong as a rope And the vagabond wind, whispers over the bay and the songs and the laughter, are carried away in the sky ... And Harry doesn't mind if he don...

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There's No Place Like Work When You're Home

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Greetings from the user friendly universe of the North Shore ---I got LOST this past week... feeling like an Oceanic Flight 815 crash survivor. Yes, I have clearly been affected by the lush vegetation and flower essences of the Hawaiian island of Oahu. This plane wreck is the best thing that’s ever happened to me ! Did the zero commute to the set. Got paid for the waiting, the acting was free. Put "The Strength Of Weak Ties" ( Craigs List !) into action and got a SAAB 900! for the same price Mom sold me her Dodge Dart back in the stone ages of 1975, $100 US Dollars! I am on the divine payroll these days... a cosmic free lunch. Gringos over the Rainbow in the Aloha State... There is no there there--it just is ...and it depends on what your definition of is is. For some it is: How high are you?"; for others, it's "Hi, how are you? and then there's just plain, "Hullo" Ah Hawaii! in a place where Maryjuana trumps Blackberries for productivity. Litera...

Lost And Found

Terry O'Quinn LOST Spoiler alert: This article contains plot points from recent episodes. In the two most recent episodes of "Lost," John Locke told a few lies, killed an "Other," blew up a hatch full of communication devices and then set off more explosives in the Others' submarine to prevent anyone from leaving or arriving on the island. It's a far cry from the weeks he spent in a hole in the ground last season, punching computer buttons, only to emerge feeling like he wasted his time. "Lost" mythology has cast Locke, played by Emmy-nominated Terry O'Quinn, as the show's most enigmatic character. When Locke has his mojo, it seems, so does "Lost." In fact, the arc of Locke, and even O'Quinn's own story, closely parallel the highs and lows of the ABC serialized ensemble drama that changed television three years ago. Now, 80 days into the journey of the plane-crash survivors, what most viewers intuited from the beginn...

Crash Course With The Infinite

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I do n't see things as they are; I see them as I am. Right no w, I don’t see the waves, I am the waves, I don’t touch the sandy beach, I am the sandy beach. I don’t feel the sunshine, I am the sunshine. T o live in this vastness is to bathe in the ocean that mystics call one taste. These are the good old days--- enduring moments when I say that this is the ever "me". I can drink the Pacific in a single big gulp, with one single big mind. I can be happy in the world only because I am free of it. I am not addicted to experiences and memories. I don’t need to gather any more experiences . I go beyond all that. Life is just as it is. I am as I always was.There was never any journey. What I was looking for is what was looking---the noticer. I can have all the love I want in the world for the asking. . Love flows through all that is — so I am that love too. I have access to love within my self, and it says, “ I ...

Love On $0 Dollars A Day-I'm Going On A Permanent Vacation

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I cannot avoid love in everyday life. I can only avoid seeing it. It is simple, free and easily available. Love lives in the moment. It is HERE and NOW. This is not love at first sight. This is love with insight. There are not kinds of love. Love is love, but there are degrees of love. I begin , right where I am. It is nothing short of ordinary. I have on ly to be willing to show up. I move to love. I will to love. I love because I mus t, because I will it. Love begins with the decision to love; saying yes to love, is saying yes to creating its joy. I am unique and I want to continually share this. I found a woma n who loves me for my differences and not in spite of them. I have found a lover for life . T he easiest thing in the world to be is what I am and what I feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want me to be. Real love is dedicated to continual becoming... Love on $0 Dollars A Day, I can’t afford not to tak...

Eating Up The Light-- The Sun Also Rises on Mt. Haleakala

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Write About Here Maui--Greetings from the global power spot and vortex of Mt. Haleakala's lava dome, aka,"House of the Sun"; where the first lunar astronuts trained and future space cadets get to blast off into nirvana. This is perhaps the most powerful energy zone on the planet. I've been repatriated back to the Valley Island; applying for citizenship in the comfort zone and state of mind of A s lo w ha; taking a few courses for my B.E: a Bachelor's of Enlightenment. At the summit, I met up with , Paulette, a Euro-Asian- British-Afro-Caribbean beauty. "Cause Im every woman. Its all in me" . Boy could her looks sing. Everyone else seemed like Karaoke Wahines, copycats. Faith: Apostle Phil Was Full Of It After the downhill descent, Paulete showed me around up country Makawao, an "off the grid" community where I participated in her shared halucination of new age Aquarian Moonwind Morningstar Jonathan Livingston Seagull proportions - at Dragon Den...