Disco is My Cosmos

My cat is my little Buddha. She is a reminder of the impermanence of everything. She is a bit like life...she has about 50 personalities and you never know which one you are going to get next. Sometimes she's really cute and purring; sometimes she's attacking (and more than in a playful way); sometimes she's running 50 miles an hour across the living room, being completely psycho. When she graces me with her presence by sitting with me on the couch or bed for a few moments, I pet her and think, "this is only going to last for a few moments. Soon she is going to run away and turn into another cat." And thus is life: and, why would we expect it any other way? But we do. We expect things to last forever, or we hope they don't, but I'll tell you what: when Mrs. Meow Meow feels like attacking, she's going to attack until she feels like stopping. Do I really have any control over her? I can get her down off the computer keyboard; I can yell at her to...

I am just going to preface this post by saying right now: it may seem controversial. And that is because it's my opinion. But I just had to share it. I received an email today about a "magic wand" that is supposed to heal. Looking at the site, I then learned that in order to buy it or sell it, it is necessary to "join" and become part of what is similar to a multilevel marketing program. So I've seen a lot of this before: products that you drink, eat, play with, watch, or read, that are apparently "so special" that you have to sign up immediately to sell them instead of just buy one. This makes me skeptical. I'm going to quote from Carl Sagan: "Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence." It seems to me that if something is really, really good, and it can potentially help millions of people, why the secrecy? Why the extraordinary cost? Now, I am not suggesting a person who has worked on something marvelous and ground break...