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Barometer of the Soul | Luminous Aether
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Light is a state-of-mind. Barometer of the Soul. November 17, 2016. My half-sister, eight-years my senior, has a given name represented by the “kanji,” or Chinese-based logographic characters that represent its pronunciation, which read something like, “ Ten-Thousand I.Q. Child. 8221; To me, my parents gave a more common Japanese girl’s name. When written, its. Mean something like, “ Forever Beautiful Child. Many years later, my bright but also stunningly beautiful o. Still, a certain romance seems to ha...
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Things Rare and Things Beautiful | Luminous Aether
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Light is a state-of-mind. Things Rare and Things Beautiful. June 2, 2015. Things rare or things beautiful. Here are wisely assembled. They instruct the eye to. Look at all things in the world. As if never seen before. 8212; Paul Valery. Some time after my brother was born, we moved to a small (. By American standards, anyway. 8220;Sama” was the formal suffix befitting of the expectation for reverent behavior toward an elder. It will be very sad if you dry up like a leaf and blow away in the wind. Accordi...
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Tears in the Land of Smiles | Luminous Aether
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Light is a state-of-mind. Tears in the Land of Smiles. October 15, 2016. A good person can make another person good; and that means that goodness will elicit goodness in a society…. 8212; King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand. Thailand’s monarch, King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Reigned from 1946 until his death last Thursday, October 13. He was the head of the House of Chakri. A royal family originating with King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke,. And Queen Sirikit Kitiyakara. The king’s influence on national politic...
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The Sounds of Underground Tokyo (earplugs optional) | Luminous Aether
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Light is a state-of-mind. The Sounds of Underground Tokyo (earplugs optional). October 14, 2016. Around sunset, just outside the Numabukaro train station in Tokyo, Yuki and I stopped at a police “kōban” to ask directions to Sanctuary. The two policemen inside looked at us curiously, then to each other with smiles before one of them shook his head, responding in Japanese that, yes, he knew how to get there. 8221; was little more than a basement dive hidden beneath a small restaurant. Since closed, it ...
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Fun | Luminous Aether
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Light is a state-of-mind. October 2, 2016. More-or-less well known to most outdoor enthusiasts are the three classifications of. Fun refers to the variety that is intrinsically and spontaneously gratifying. This might include a swim in a mountain lake, skiing a seamless line down velvet snow, or a roll-in-the-hay under the stars on a warm night. Fun denotes the kind that only becomes apparent. Why the Hell did I do that? Although some consider this to have its own category of Type IV. Lan, or a. Work But...
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Lightness Traveling | Luminous Aether
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Light is a state-of-mind. Author Archives: Lightness Traveling. March 8, 2017. 8221; My father was a physician, so I was sure that he would know. Unknowingly, my young mind had strayed into dark waters. My father put his arm around me and held me close. In a far away voice, his answer was uncharacteristically brief. “. It would be another two decades before I would be old enough to understand. According to Gerald F. Joyce. Of the Scripps Research Institute, “. Of life. On the earth, the only known ch...
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Bullies | Luminous Aether
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Light is a state-of-mind. October 29, 2016. We moved to our first home in the US when I was five. I only discovered why. Quite recently. Our house was atop a small rise, with a back-yard view toward a popular beach, maybe a quarter-mile away. I even recall my father once considering whether it might be a good idea to leave for higher ground, rather more inland in the event of a large earthquake. 8221; though admitedly because I thought the jab mildly amusing. Regardless, I made one last request to be...
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The Last Resort | Luminous Aether
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Light is a state-of-mind. October 18, 2016. It’s the last of the great human motivators, after. And it seems to be the most surreptitious, hiding itself behind human constructs like “success,” or “achievement.” But really, it’s just another instinct born of natural-selection, the drive to find out what’s just over that next hill and to stay productive in those moments when we’re not. Boredom is the instinctive urging of an otherwise untethered mind. My husband suddenly understood why I chose this particu...
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Upward Boundaries | Luminous Aether
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Light is a state-of-mind. January 11, 2017. Part I: Pushing Boundaries. Late last October, not long before we left for the mountains of Chile, word arrived that the Japanese mountaineer,. Had died from cancer at the age of 77. Well known in Japan, she was a remarkable individual, celebrated as the. First woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. During an expedition partially sponsored by Japanese media’s. Newspaper. Later, in 1992, this. Five-foot tall, 92-pound. Women’s Climbing Club. Would climb on ...
