I was touched by chaos; Excerpt from a book of Robert Fulguhm's

“Aspirin. We don’t know everything about how it works. We know what it does, but we don’t know how.” So said a medical researcher to me during the making—small--talk part of a dinner party. Wait a minute. This guy is a Ph. D. and an M.D. and has government grant money running out his pockets, and he doesn’t know about aspirin? This is not small talk. But it’s true. He doesn’t know-nobody else know-not even the guy in the TV ad dressed up to look like a doctor. Big mystery, which has been around for a long time. Chinese doctors prescribed it a thousand years ago. “Chew up some willow bark and call me in the morning” is what they said back then. Willow bark has acetylsalicylic acid in it. That’s aspirin, which is easier to pronounce and easier to get down your gullet than willow bark.
There’s some comfort in knowing that the Ph.D. and M.D. types are thrown by something so common and simple as aspirin. Mystery remains as close at hand as my medicine cabinet.
In my working journal there is an old list under the heading: “Ordinary Things We Don’t Know About.” The list got started when I read a statement in some science magazine to the effect that “we don’t know how water moves from the ground up through the trunk and out to the leave of a tree.” Amazing! I thought we had trees figured out.
So I started the list. Every time I read of an expert saying we don’t know about his very simple ordinary thing or another, it went on my list.
Homing pigeons came next. Then the common cold. Followed by hair loss. But when I read about Heisenberg’s Principle of Uncertainty in a physics course, I realized my list was a fool’s task. Electrons are everywhere, and we not only don’t know if they are a wave or a particle, we can’t know. If electrons are a problem, well, everything is.
So I began a new list. “Signs of the Cosmic Glitch” is the heading. The information about electrons pointed at a basic untidiness. Example: The earth wobbles seventy-two feet off center. Like a top spinning on its axis somewhat cockeyed. Right this very minute we are all wobbling just a little. If you ever feel kind of queasy for no particular reason, it may be the wobble.
Now. We learned that the earth is slowing down, so we have to mess with the clocks and throw in a leap-year from time to time-and we know why this is. But the Wobble? Lots of theories, but nobody can explain it. Cosmic Glitch.
Science has tended to dismiss such matters as being in the range of permissible error. In almost all research in almost every field, there has always been some persistent little inconsistency. The Glitch. And it has always been easier to build it into an equation and discount it rather than try to explain it.
It’s like knowing that no matter how carefully and long you may stir your hot breakfast cereal, there will always be at least one small lump of dried, uncooked cereal hiding somewhere in the mix. After a few years you learn to expect and accept the lump and assume it just goes with the territory. But the WHY is the interesting part, as it turns out.
For suddenly science has become very interested in the behavior of your breakfast cereal. This pattern that always seem to include the unmixed lump has become the business of something called “Chaos Science,” the most important shift in scientific thinking since Einstein’s little formula.
Chaos Science is the study of the Cosmic Glitch. And the Glitch is in every field of science and every realm of experience. Chaos Science suggests that the problem has not been one of small errors, but one of larger information. The pattern of existence turns out to be far more complex and complicated than we thought—on every level.
Chaos Science has led researchers back tot the most fundamental everyday matters—the formation of clouds, the mixing of paint, the flow of traffic, the spread of disease, and the freezing of water in pipes. The cycles of earthquakes and the eruption of volcanoes fits into Chaos Science, too, which is pretty important these days if you live in California or in the Cascade Mountains. The problem of the larger pattern pervades every activity we know of.
The language being used to label the new fields of study is itself appropriately glitchy. When I attended the 155th national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in San Francisco, I heard discussions in the field of Chaos Science about such topics as “fractal fingering,” “strange attractors,” “dangling bond defects,” “folded-towel diffeomorphisms,” “Eden growth,” “smooth noodle maps,” and “lattice animals.” There’s more poetry and metaphor in Chaos Science, and I think it’s because we’re talking about something so far out on the edge that even though we sense a mighty truth, we don’t have language symbols to accurately nail down what we sense.
So we call it Chaos Science. By “Chaos” we mean simply what we can’t understand.
It’s as if we were the most numerous and oldest and most established ant colony in Chicago. And every once in a while, some of the most brilliant ants wander out together and take a look at Chicago—or what they can see of it. The farther away from the ant heap they get, the more mysterious thing seem to be. Recently they happened to be standing alongside a formerly quiet area in their universe when there was a mighty tremor, a huge darkness, and a mighty blast of wind. They had not predicted such activity. They sensed something unimaginable was going on. And reported a new condition of the universe when they returned to the anthill—something that would force a revision of their understanding. Some wanted to call this Chaos. Some wanted to call it the Mysterium Tremendum. Others, the Backfire of the Big Bang. The Wrath of God was also suggested. A new science—a new chapter in the Great Book of the Way It Is. Little did they know that they had happened onto a seldom-used railroad siding when a freight train passed by.
The bad news is that the ants will never ever comprehend Chicago. The good news is that they sense they are right in the middle of something infinitely wonderful and the more they try to understand it, the more amazing it seems to be. Seems to be in the nature of the ants to keep going out and pushing the limits of the known until they come to a new edge. Naming what’s beyond seems to help accommodate that which cannot be understood. It is the ants’ way.


Chaos Science is the study of process—that which won’t hold still. The study of that which is still becoming, rather than of what is.
Chaos Science is my kind of science. I like knowing that no matter what, there is this cosmic untidiness—an unexplainable hiccup in the order we thing we perceive, an unpredictability, a mutational inclination, a glitch in the works that anchors mystery and wonder to the center of being. And that the aspirin I hold in my hand and the clouds overhead remain as mysterious to the experts as to me.
Chaos. I can relate to that. My life is chaos most of the time. I am in turn with the universe. It feels like home.
by Robert Fulghum
"It was on Fire When I Lay Down on It"
1989, Villard Books, a division of Random House, Inc. New York.

2010 BOSTON MARATHON

By Buzzy Buzz Blogging
{Ticking the title redirects you to their site}
Boston Marathon 2010 Results – In case you missed the Boston Marathon 2010 yesterday, we have the top 10 race results for both the men and the women.

The Boston Marathon that took place yesterday was the 114th Boston Marathon. If you’re from Boston, like I am, then you would know that this day is treated like a holiday. Unfortunately, I was working so I didn’t get to enjoy it like most people. Though, I know someone who actually participated in the race and he finished with a pretty good time. Unfortunately, it wasn’t in the top 10 spots.

Also, this is the first time that I found out how much money you could winning by finishing in the top 10. It breaks down similar to finishing in the final table in a poker tournament!

Below are the Boston Marathon race results (name, country, time and winnings) for both the men and women:

Women’s Race Results

1. Teyba Erkesso (ETH) 2:26:11 $150,000
2. Tatyana Pushkareva (RUS) 2:26:14 $75,000
3. Salina Kosgei (KEN) 2:28:35 $40,000
4. Waynishet Girma (ETH) 2:28:36 $25,000
5. Bruna Genovese (ITA) 2:29:12 $15,000
6. Lidiya Grigoryeva (RUS) 2:30:31 $12,000
7. Yurika Nakamura (JPN) 2:30:40 $9000
8. Weiwei Sun (CHN) 2:31:14 $7400
9. Nailya Yulamanova (RUS) 2:31:48 $5700
10. Albina Mayorova-Ivanova (RUS)2:31:55 $4200

Official Men’s Race Results From Boston Marathon Website

1. Robert Cheruiyot KEN 2:05:52
2. Tekeste Kebede ETH 2:07:23
3. Deriba Merga ETH 2:08:39
4. Ryan Hall USA 2:08:41
5. Mebrahtom Keflezighi USA 2:09:26
6. Gashaw Asfaw ETH 2:10:53
7. John Komen KEN 2:11:48
8. Moses Kigen Kipkosgei KEN 2:12:04
9. Jason Lehmkuhle USA 2:12:24
10. Alejandro Suarez MEX 2:12:33
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And the Seattle Post Says;;;
BOSTON -- The up-and-down course of the Boston Marathon ended just in time for Ethiopia's Teyba Erkesso.

She held off a charge from Russian Tatyana Pushkareva on Monday to win the women's race in 2 hours, 26 minutes, 11 seconds. Erkesso beat Pushkareva by three seconds in the third-closest women's finish in race history.

Erkesso grabbed the lead after 12 miles, when Pushkareva wasn't even among the top 10 women. But by mile 21, Pushkareva had narrowed the gap to about a minute. With six-tenths of a mile to go, Pushkareva was just 15 seconds behind, but she ran out of room.

Pushkareva said the late surge was part of her strategy and she had no doubt she made her move at the right time.

"In today's race, I did everything that I could," she said through a translator. "I would not change anything."

Last year's champion, Salina Kosgei of Kenya, finished third in 2 hours, 28

College Scholarship Quiz

From newfreearticle.com
(cheers to freeing my fallangies) and I don't know how real helpful this is. Most in the know citizens are just that.

The Farmgirl Movement~~~The need to know where your food comes from people

Mary Jane's Outpost~~Tick the title to redirect to Amazon~this book is one you can read a page or two on. I love those kinds.

MaryJaneFarms~PO Box 8691~Moscow, Idaho836843
(888)750-6004 toll free~iris@maryjanesfarm.org
$20 membership fee. FYI; She's on book tour and such, so no B&B this summer.
I was thinking that'd be great, and so would starting a chapter or such here in the PNW. Just thinking~~~

My personal favorite 'Mary Janes Outpost' excerpt;

..You pull up in front of the town’s general store, grab your hat off the seat, and step out and into…your next fantasy.
“Got any night crawlers?” you ask the young gal who’s already seriously wondering what you’re about. Everything else you already have in tow behind you-the beauty of a trailer (or a pickup truck with a camper or shell). Your stuff is always packed and ready to go.
Now you’ve just planted another seed, this time in someone else-the young gal who checked you out and spied your rig out front. Here’s what she saw:
Either a woman completely unafraid of being alone or doing her darndest to contront head-on her “alone-out-there” fear. She sensed your strength. She envied your spirit. Your gumption. She asked, “Where you from?” She wanted to know more….
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Meet Mary Jane; article from Mountain Rose Herbs

If you have not yet visited Mary Jane's Farm, let today be the day!
Mary Jane Butters pioneered the Farmgirl movement, which focuses on organic farming with a do-it-yourself attitude. Articles in her magazine, as well as the beautiful videos on her website, will inspire you to harvest green garlic scapes, sew a garden apron, or bake fresh biscuits from your own home milled flour.
Mountain Rose Herbs has been working with Mary Jane for over a year now and we continue to draw inspiration from her story and her efforts to spread the message that choosing organics will lead to a healthy future for all of us.

Check out her website. The title redirects to amazon. This link goes to her own website. Just cut and paste, if need be...
http://www.maryjanesfarm.com/
here is her video bio
http://www.maryjanesfarm.com/video-library.asp

The Dalai Lama

Cosmic Happiness from Dalai Lama

What is enlightenment? What is that state of Cosmic Consciousness, the ultimate awareness called variously - enlightenment, nirvana, satori, samadhi, self-realization, rapture, salvation, ascension, unity consciousness, voidness, and many other terms by many various religions? It is the goal of life, the ultimate destination of every individualized being. It is brought about when the individual personality ascends beyond the illusionary perception of self separateness to merge in the Universal Self from which it originated so very long ago. Spiritual evolution towards this goal takes place over ages but the final ascent of Spirit can happen in an instant of time.
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Our true nature is not limited ... it is like the vast ocean. ... When we touch Supreme Consciousness through meditation, then we are boundless, we are everywhere, we are eternal. (Amma Karunamayi)
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To the enlightened one, the world as he knew it ceases to be, and everything now stands enmantled (shrouded) by a shining vesture of divine effulgence, hitherto invisible to his normal vision.(Swami Chidananda, Light Fountain Divine Life Society)
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Everything that occurred to me while I was in this state of consciousness was vastly beyond anything that I had ever experienced and yet at the same time it was familiar - as if I had always known of its existence. Even now when I try to describe something so beautiful I am mute with awe. There are no words in any language to describe such grandeur.
(Anonymous, Unbounded Light)
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How to Achieve the Goal ???

How does one proceed from the normal human condition to the goal of enlightenment? The easiest way to achieve this Ultimate Goal is to follow in the footsteps of those who have passed this way already. The sages, saints and ascended masters of all times have found this path - sometimes through their own unaided efforts but more often by following the written or spoken guidance of a previous Teacher or Guru. The enlightened master sees the grand achievement and encourages others to find the immense treasure within the reach of every sincere seeker. They point out the path, warn of dangers, offer encouragement, and elucidate the methods of advancing on the way.

Short of direct guidance by a living enlightened one (a rare piece of good fortune), there is no better way than to read the lives of saints and pay close attention to their words. These powerful beings are alert on the other side, watching for the seekers, waiting to help and remove hindrances in the path of all those aspiring to the higher life in spirit.

Read their stories. Draw forth their grace. Create that subtle link of consciousness with them. Their photographs are full of power; their words highly instructive; their stories saturated with the essence of enlightenment. Meditate on their actions and you will approach their subtle perfection.

This is a very special time during which spiritual evolution is being immensely accelerated. Powerful beings are working behind the veil with all who are consciously cooperating to change Earth and bring us into a radically new pattern of human attainment. Never before have even small efforts on the spiritual path been so greatly rewarded. So do not miss this rare opportunity - it may not come again for a long time. As it says in the Upanishads, Arise! Awake! From this very day vow to become the Self that you really are and join the army of lightworkers that are even now transforming the planet.


Cosmic Happiness link
http://www.cosmicharmony.com/index.htm#Tibet

Susan Weed and her Wise Woman Traditions Link

http://www.wisewomantradition.com/healingwise/
and this one
http://www.wisewomanweb.com/
and this one for grreatTTTtt bOOks!!
http://www.ashtreepublishing.com/

Lets just say that a very wise young woman I know showed me Susan's books. She has several. Look her up, she's fantastic!
Thanks LD! I can't say enough about all of the lessons and listenings you've givin' me. It was nice chatting the other morning!
Caio!
OX