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Saturday Mar 15, 2003
Friends, Romans, Countrymen
Julius Caesar, in Shakespeare’s play, does not heed the soothsayer’s now iconic and prophetic warning: Beware the ides of March, which, up until the bard penned that now famous line, had merely meant the 15th day of March on the calendar.
The play is ripe with omens. Why heed one omen and not another? Are you superstitious?
The play contains some of the most often quoted bits of biting dialog in Western literature. Here are a few that will certainly sound familiar.
Thursday Mar 13, 2003
A Beautiful Soul
Prince Hamlet must confront the duality of nature, murder, grief, and betrayal by his mother and uncle—little wonder then that he was troubled.
At the core of his thematic issue is this: What do you do when you know the truth and that the truth needs to be told?
Have you been there?
Monday Mar 10, 2003
Oh Maya, Oh Maya
Mayan Consciousness
There is no doubt that there is a human collective consciousness. The energy of the past is swirling about us in the present. Can you see it? Can you feel it? It exists on the sub-atomic level—the invisible matrix that creates the material world. It is transcendental knowledge.
The wisdom, mystery, and history of the ages are available to anyone willing to receive.
Saturday Mar 08, 2003
Last Days in LA
Toward my last days in Los Angeles some years back when I was living in the Hollywood Hills, I had a moving sale of various items, not art. A bearded man came to the door, looked around quickly, and went directly to an item leaning against one of my easels.
“How much is that,” he asked.
I said: “Do you know what this is?”
Thursday Mar 06, 2003
As Luck Will Have It
I heard this Chinese folktale many years ago and its meaning stuck with me as a true friend.
A man named Sei Weng owned a beautiful mare, which was praised far and wide. One day this beautiful horse disappeared. The people of his village offered sympathy to Sei Weng for his great misfortune. Sei Weng said simply, “That’s the way it is.”
