Thanissara – Time to Stand Up: An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth — The Buddha’s Life and Message through Feminine Eyes (To be published on August 18, 2015 – Pre-order at the Amazon link above for $7.47) About the Author Thanissara and her husband Kittisaro (Harry Randolph Weinberg) are the founders of Dharmagiri Hermitage … Read more
Ed Berge has been reviewing the new book from Jeremy Rifkin, The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism, over at his Postmetaphysical Spirituality forum. All of the individual posts from that thread have been organized into a lengthy article that was posted at Integral World. … Read more
From Bookforum‘s Omnivore blog, another collection of philosophy links to drag us down the rabbit hole. Included is a review of Mary Midgley’s Are You an Illusion? and an article on Midgley’s efforts to defend human consciousness against the likes of Richard Dawkins. There is also a good interview with John Searle, one of … Read more
“A handsome and likely intelligent guy, who wasn’t my best friend and gay, was something of a unicorn in my life. So I maybe let my eyes linger a touch too long on the front of his pants as he approached. And my posture might’ve stiffened to let him know I was tall and lean, but still … Read more
Isn’t the cover fantastic on this? That’s cause it’s by the blog world’s very ownRUSTY WEBB (or RUSTY CARL) or whatever he calls himself these days. Heblogs at “The Blutonian Death Egg.” I’m friends with Patrick who blogs over at his website: P.T. DILLOWAY. He’s a man of unflinching honesty. He never sugar coats anything, … Read more
This weekend I read “City of Light and Stone” by Laura Diamond. It’s a short story featured in the dark fantasy anthology: Day of Demons (cover pictured at right). In short, Day of Demons is a collection of stories featuring the conflict of demons and humans over the course of a day. The main character … Read more
I recently finished TransShifter by Cindy Borgne. This is a short story, and boy was it good. Here’s my review: Five stars out of five. This story is beautiful. Cindy Borgne is a titanic voice among new authors. Aside from having won multiple awards early in her career, she dares to explore a short story … Read more
For my weekend post I wanted to put up the official press release for the extremely talented writer, Theresa Milstein. She has a short story in this beautiful book, and I am so proud of her accomplishment. Additionally, I’m honored to be on Theresa’s blog tour and will be hosting her on October 12th, 2011. … Read more