Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

-Margaret Mead

Live Like You Were Dying :: Tim McGraw


He said I was in my early forties
with a lot of life before me
when a moment came that stopped me on a dime
and I spent most of the next days
looking at the x-rays
Talking bout the options
and talking bout sweet time
I asked him when it sank in
that this might really be the real end
how?s it hit you when you get that kinda news
man what?d you do

and he said
I went sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named BluManchu
and I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter
and I gave forgiveness I?d been denying
and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying.

He said I was finally the husband
that most the time I wasn?t
and I became a friend a friend would like to have
and all the sudden going fishin
wasn?t such an imposition
and I went three times that year I lost my dad
well I finally read the good book
and I took a good long hard look
at what I?d do if I could do it all again

and then
I went sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named BluManchu
and I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter
and I gave forgiveness I?d been denying
and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying.

Like tomorrow was a gift and you got eternity to think about
what?d you do with it what did you do with it
what did I do with it
what would I do with it?

Sky diving
I went Rocky Mountain climbing
I went 2.7 seconds on a bull named BluManchu
and then I loved deeper and I spoke sweeter
and I watched an eagle as it was flying
and he said someday I hope you get the chance
to live like you were dying.
To live like you were dying
To live like you were dying
To live like you were dying
To live like you were dying

There is more harm than just caffeine due to a Coke can. Please don't support organizations like coke.

Please do your bit, it's just takes a minute to sign the petition.
The Nobel Prize for Sustainable Development

When I was young and bold and strong,
Oh, right was right, and wrong was wrong!
My plume on high, my flag unfurled,
I rode away to right the world.
"Come out, you dogs, and fight!" said I,
And wept there was but once to die.

But I am old; and good and bad
Are woven in a crazy plaid.

-Dorothy Parker.

The self hides in many ways, under every stone. The self can hide in compassion, going to India and looking after poor people, because the self then is attached to some idea, faith, conclusion, belief. The self has many masks, the mask of meditation, the mask of achieving the highest, the mask that I am enlightened, that ‘I know of what I speak’. All this concern about humanity is another mask. So one has to have an extraordinary, subtle, quick brain to see where it is hiding.


-Krishnamurti
Saanen, July 25, 1983

Scamway
Don't miss this.
Scamway

dark skies..
this is to those who love dark skies, and also to those who don't see anything to appreciate. For me, the dark skies signify the unfathomable mystery, and the twinkling stars - the joys of creation and the beauty of life. Too sad that we have to see the skies polluted with light.

one good news is that there is an association for people who love dark skies, and I stumbled up on it just today.

www.darksky.org

There are 10,500 people members in this organizations and it makes me glad to know that there are some people out there who love dark skies just like me...

Plastic bags consumed this year:*
173,526,157,350

173 billion.. can you believe that?

Top facts


Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are now consumed worldwide. That's comes out to over one million per minute!


Ireland has reduced plastic bag consumption by over 90% since the PlasTax was implemented in March 2002.


US annual plastic bag consumption requires an estimated 12,000,000 barrels of oil.


Hundreds of thousands of sea turtles, birds and other animals die each year from swallowing plastic bags mistaken for food.


"Plastic bags have been dubbed the national flower of South Africa because they are such a prevalent form of litter."


Each high quality reusable bag you use has the potential to eliminate hundreds, if not thousands, of plastic bags over its lifetime.


According to the American Forest and Paper Association, in 1999 the US alone used 10 billion paper grocery bags, requiring 14 million trees to be cut down.


According to the industry publication Modern Plastics, Taiwan alone consumes 20 billion bags a year – 900 per person.

one more attempt to get a GMail offer. However, to reward you for your interest in my blogspot, here is an useful link.
http://www.stumbleupon.com
Great site. Helps you stumble up on a lot of great sites, faster.

I am justing posting this blog so that I may get the offer to try Gmail. I dont want to append any numbers after my name, so hope I can get the mail id I want.

Have to research more on this one. An interesting find.
Life after the oil crash!

musings...
A poster in my room reads

"Balance. It's what keeps you steady despite life's craziest demands-from a one-legged yoga pose to a two-mile-long to-do list. Stop for a moment, find your equilibrium, hold it, protect it. That single pause- and the peace it brings- will help everything else fall into place. because somoetimes keeping your sanity is more important than keeping up. When you have a sense of balance, YOU HAVE IT ALL."

would like to get Google's COMPUTE to your notice. I know that this has been there for a long time, but I came across it very recently. I think there still might be a bunch of others who don't know about it.

Donate your idle computer time to worthwhile causes

I am jumping on the bandwagon, finally! Seeing so many blogs makes me wonder "Who is going to read my blog anyway? Either I should expect netsurfers with ample time, or I should become a celebrity soon :)" Nevertheless, this is one of the places to express myself and I shall do so!