His face was even darker from a growing beard and scorched from sun rays hitting the piteous side walk he sat on caked in grime, blood and sticky remnants of old food melting in the Athens summer.
We had just left our hotel clean, showered and all loved up, ready for a day of walking the ancient ...
I sit in an office chair (which is in fact a theatre chair used in the evening for audience members). I book the funny people for our Wednesday show, and deal with the kafka-esque task of managing the Monkey Barrel inbox. (I’d explain the term Kafka-esque to the child, as it will prove useful ...
Ricardo (Monkey) Morales Navarette, the 43-year-old Cuban who made a career out of dealing and double-dealing in the treacherous world of exile terrorism, was shot and critically wounded late Monday night in a Key Biscayne bar, Metro-Dade police said.
Morales was shot in the head in a dimly lit b...
Luke’s car back seat inflatey thing is no longer very inflated. There is condensation on all of the windows. My sleeping mat has deflated. It is kind of snowing and there is some snow on the ground. It is cold. Luke turns the car on and blasts the heater. There are some far off patches of blue...
Often, when we attempt to focus or quiet our internal awareness, we are left unnerved by the frequency and persistence of intrusive thoughts in our mind — anyone who has tried to meditate can attest to this.
Monkey mind is a way of describing this inner chatter. We know it best as the voice...
Itwas -14º with a windchill of about -35º in Iowa on caucus day as stalwart Republicans donned their Carhartts and found their way to places like the Legion Hall in Lost Nation to cast their ballots in the nation’s first presidential primary contest.
Those temperatures were cold e...
Your pROFOUND Enlightenment!
All over life, such advice abounds,
The funny thing is, ‘enlightenment’,
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Is acceptance of self,
SEEING The World clearly,
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