Fusho Fumetsu

Rational behaviour therapy versus Confucius barring "shall," "must," "certainly" and "I."

Buddha enlightenment versus giving oneself over to Jesus by confessing one's sins.

I mentally write things/events on a piece of paper, wad up the paper, tear it into bits, rearrange and see if it still makes sense.

"Bride Trafficking Unveiled" on currenttv. Movies: "The Freshman" (1990) and "Chariots of Fire" (1981).

Rainy and Paradee at Thai Garden. Major "Q" Boothroyd and Emma Peel.

Achronia and anatta again.

Billionaires jerking my chain to tell me they want to get richer, to save the economy, of course. Where does materialism end and philanthropy begin? I honestly do not know. If I only gave a tenth of my leisure time to help others...

The progress of time as seen in scientific discovery and peer review.

We live in a moment. A lighted match or falling leaf.

How do you get people to pay for jewelery repair - assist customers, have an estate sale of unused/unwanted items in their homes so they can get the jewelery you hold that they hold so dear?

The more ideas you share, the better chance one idea will spark the right idea in someone's need in the moment. When we figure out idea generation is more important than idea possession, the weights chaining us to sluggish progress toward true enlightenment fall away.

Too bad LeBron didn't say, "I'll take the same salary at Miami but give 25% to improve education for underprivileged children in Cleveland." Now that's true love of your fans.

When race becomes the base issue du jour, all of us get baited and hooked on the chain gang, cannibals ready to chew our legs off to get a step ahead.

People seeking freedom travel liferisking journeys worth writing about. Most individual journeys go untold. My mother in-law paid for workers to harvest the tobacco crops on her farm, the workers' names, faces, and backgrounds unknown. Only the workers and their families can tell about life in those fields. Have they? Will they? Some were born of local, multigenerational families and some of recent migrant families.

All have had stories to tell. Our families have migrated at one time or another, no matter what we claim as vocational aptitudes or ancestral land.

Billionaires or not, we are family. Who wants to listen when we whine? Let's offer family-centered ideas first, whatever we are.