(Un)Impressed in NYC

Impressed:  Taxi dispatcher from JFK immediately prints out the dispatch number for the Taxi you take to the city.  If you lost something, or was rude to.  You have the number right on your fingertips.
Unimpressed: The size of the room of the Hudson Hotel that I paid USD520 for.  College dorm rooms are larger.
Impressed:  The [...]

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Tarot Cards

FIRST CARD:
The card shows a tower being burned, destroyed, blown apart. A man and a woman are leaping from it not because they want to, but because they have no choice. In the background is a transparent, meditating  igure representing the witnessing consciousness.  You might be feeling pretty shaky right now, as if the earth [...]

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Heart Dog(s)

As I mentioned, I adopted a dog a month and a half ago.  Renzei — after “Firenze” but with an “i” since it is pronounced as such.   Since then, it’s not an exaggeration to say that life has been 24/7 with him.  But it’s funny how you don’t feel particularly inconvenienced by this lifestyle change.  [...]

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Juice Cleansing

Very last minute, I decided to go through Juice Cleansing.  Last minute since it was really never planned.  And believe it or not a whole week and a half opened up, due to a canceled trip to Bali to visit a friend who just finished building a vila there.  Talk about extremity of experience.
The cleansing [...]

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Fido the Cynosure

After many years of fantasy and contemplation, one last weekend of July, I co-adopted a 1.5-year-old Schnauzer, Poodle and Dachshund mix. A friend told me that during the process of selecting a dog, I will find out that the dog chooses you and not the other way around.
I don’t know if Renzei [...]

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