http://www.brainsprain.net Now Optimized for iPhones! Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:33:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My greatest challenge of late is becoming more tolerant of intolerance. I find it very difficult to deal with groups that rely on exclusion or judgment of others to build themselves up. I want to develop more compassion for people who spend more time trying to limit the choices and ... http://www.brainsprain.net/2009/03/19/quest-for-compassion/ In a disused field at the end of an untraveled road sits an abandoned warehouse a forgotten boy gives an unseen performance he has practiced for weeks charted the progress of the sun across the gritty floor so the light would be perfect he plays all the parts he is riveting and captivating and his audience which is also him gives him a standing ... http://www.brainsprain.net/2009/03/18/harsh-sun/ gentle wind on velvet skin fertile moon of glow-stick blue sated geese settle in beside the waving mirror cool air caresses grateful lungs gravel footsteps pass behind hands entwine and then relax a distant train howls unseen a carp erupts and then returns two travelers love without words Colleen Miller 2-27-09 http://www.brainsprain.net/2009/02/27/moment/ Ivory skinned, doe-eyed devastation. A slight tilt of her head elegantly murders time she sighs We again exhale. Yet for all the grace in her delicate, musical fingers, happiness seems to slide through them - unclaimed. She runs from desire, but baits it. It is her wound and balm. So quiet is her heartsong muffled by trivial distraction, demanding ... http://www.brainsprain.net/2009/02/27/venus/ Read this: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/us-stocks-tumble-biggest-drop/story.aspx?guid={01F6F134-2ECE-4D6B-8829-18D411D5FD94}&dist=msr_1 Or maybe just this excerpt: "Everybody is looking for the silver bullet to fix the economy, but there isn't one," said Chris Johnson, chief executive of Johnson Investment Research in Cincinnati. "I think what they're doing here is too little, too late." Johnson has recently been using options contracts and ... http://www.brainsprain.net/2009/02/10/dont-use-it-if-you-dont-get-it/ There has been much speculation in the press today about what W might have said to Obama in the letter.  I managed to get a copy of it, and am sharing it here in a world exclusive: Dear Mr. President, Make three copies of this letter and send them to three other ... http://www.brainsprain.net/2009/01/21/letter-from-w-to-obama-revealed/ I saw him again today, way off in the distance Under his rainbow, his lawnmower pushing him higher Does he know how it makes me feel to see him Way up in the sky, doing donuts around zephyrs? Like singing in joy at his freedom from the ground His distance from it measured not in ... http://www.brainsprain.net/2009/01/15/rainbow-lawnmower/ I finally found the a great example of irony. It is the titanium or "Centurion" American Express card. The card carries a $2,500 annual fee and requires the card holders to charge more than $250,000 a year. Word is that since they are so new, many Titanium cards are being ... http://www.brainsprain.net/2008/12/01/membership-has-its-suckers/ People who act like the rules do not apply to them make me crazy. There was a man in front of me in line at Walgreen's and he had a coupon for $1.00 off transferred prescriptions. The coupon said "coupon valid only once per transaction". The fellow decided that this ... http://www.brainsprain.net/2008/10/21/yes-the-rules-apply-to-you/ What if everything I know is illusion? Nothing more substantive than images on a television screen? The things I worry about are empty nothings? The things I hold dear are hollow promises? What if the illusion is me? Then so is my worry and so are my loves. And the empty hollow nothing is unworthy of self ... http://www.brainsprain.net/2008/08/27/ceci-nest-pas-une-pipe/