Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

– Andre Gide

I sit weekly with an Insight Group in New Orleans, and during the recent dhamma talks, we started working through the Noble Eight Fold Path. Larry, who is leading the group, passed a link to read about Right View at http://www.vipassana.com/resources/8fp0.php

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First published on: May 1, 2011 on another blog of mine.

Last night, I attended an event that I found on Meetup. Local photographers get together to shoot interesting events, movement and help each other get better. I arrived at 8pm, just as the event was about to start. As I unloaded my car, two men in their 60’s were across the street, asking me what I was up to. The conversation lead into talks about Katrina, fish-eye photography, and ultimately my new friends poured me a Screwdriver. Read more »

I found this list as a downloadable, and is therefore not mine. I am republishing it for the general benefit of the NVC community, and will remove it if the author requests. This list references groups that exist in different themes using the technology of NVC, as defined by Marshall Rosenberg.

I am a member of a few, lurking to gather information and plan to interact soon. Read more »

This was a picture taken of Hugo, my sister’s Golden Doodle.