Category Archives: life

On Being: Mirabai Bush and Contemplation

I’m really enjoying this On Being podcast episode called Mirabai Bush — Search Inside Yourself: Contemplatuon in Life and Work. I cherish Krista Tippet’s excellent podcast On Being whenever I make enough time to listen; it so often feeds my soul.

Here’s a description of this episode:

She works at an emerging 21st century intersection of industry, social healing, and diverse contemplative practices. Raised Catholic with Joan of Arc as her hero, Mirabai Bush is one of the people who brought Buddhism to the West from India in the 1970s. She is called in to work with educators and judges, social activists and soldiers. She helped create Google’s popular employee program, Search Inside Yourself. Mirabai Bush’s life tells a fascinating narrative of our time: the rediscovery of contemplative practices, in many forms and from many traditions, in the secular thick of modern culture.

Blog recommendation: kingofstates.com

If you like funny feminists or New Jersey — or both — then run, don’t walk over to subscribe to my friend and co-worker Michelle Weber’s stupendous blog http://kingofstates.com/

She’s just so goddamned funny. I mean, really — how does someone learn to be so funny and write so, so well? And how did she become so courageous, too? And if I move to NJ and sit next to her a lot, will it rub off on me?

Here’s a very funny, angry feminist post if you like that sort of thing: http://kingofstates.com/2015/06/20/got-a-second-racist-white-dudes/

Here’s a frightfully brave post that made me cry, if you like that other sort of thing: http://kingofstates.com/2015/04/16/on-survival-and-enough/

Blog recommendation: elizabeth.place

If you’re interested in poetry, feminism, rabbits, and reading, you should subscribe to my friend and co-worker Elizabeth Urello’s blog: http://elizabeth.place/

Elizabeth lives in Albuquerque, reads voraciously, writes brilliantly, loves to travel, and makes me laugh frequently — to be clear, I’m laughing at her jokes, not at her. 😉 She’s got a pet rabbit named Thomasina. In parallel universe, I’m certain she’s a movie star. I love the stories she tells.

Here’s a video of Elizabeth reading a hilarious poem that she wrote (at a company event): http://elizabeth.place/2015/02/19/poem/

Blog recommendation: chris.ink

If you like reading/talking about philosophy, liberal politics, equality, and tech, then you should subscribe to my friend and co-worker Chris Rudzki’s blog: http://chris.ink/

His wit is very dry and wonderfully enjoyable, he worked on the Nader campaign in 2008, and he lives in Pittsburgh. He also used to work in a neuroscience lab. To sum up, he’s crazy-smart, very funny, and deeply thoughtful.

Here’s a fun post to get you started: http://chris.ink/2015/06/how-to-buy-a-toothbrush/

New laptop: so fancy!

 

I have a gorgeous new WordPress branded laptop! Sunshine on the cover, and cool blue on the inside — just like me, right? 😉

   
Here’s the thing though: I am going to miss my stickers so much! I’m a little leery of personalizing my already-personalized laptop, so I’m not sure I’m going to put stickers on this computer, and I just adore the landscape of stickers I created on my old machine. It’s like a triptych of the last 2+ years of my work. Sniff! 

 

Are you woman enough to survive Bitch Planet? 

The cover of Bitch Planet #4

This piece in Ms Magazine on the feminist scifi comic Bitch Planet was so interesting!

Basically, Bitch Planet is a feminist sci-fi nerd’s Holy Grail. Adding to what is already a stacked lineup of feminist fist-pump-worthy moments, the end of each issue includes a feminist guest essay and the back page is filled with retro-style ads for humorous and ironic mail-order merchandise (that you can actually order!) My favorites include NC temporary tattoos for girls who want “that sexy, his-blood-in-a-bottle-around-your-neck CRAZY CHICK mystique…PUT IT ON YOUR FACE” and X-Ray Specs to see through a man’s intentions.

Find Bitch Planet comics here.