Category Archives: Faith and Belief

Leonard Cohen Karma and Kijiji

Leonard Cohen’s financial misfortune changed his Karma. Can it change ours?

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Leonard Cohen on stage Halifax NS (Blackberry photo)

By 2006, Leonard Cohen’s lifetime financial assets had been devastated by his close friend and business advisor.

Leonard Cohen’s karma has changed since then, and he is spreading joy and humility to his audiences.

That spirit travels ahead of him, with him and after him.  Leonard Cohen became part of my karma and I owe it all to Kijiji.

Travel that road with me for a moment.
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Joyeaux Noel

Time to get into the spirit of Christmas. Where we live there is no snow so we’re dreaming of a white Christmas.

Joyeaux Noel Joyeaux Noel photo

Merry Christmas with iPad art from Fransen (from Flickr all rights reserved)

My friend Fransen’s art captures the mood simply.  Blues artist Morgan Davis just got back from western Canada where he said there was three feet of snow in Regina.

Remembering Levon Helm

Bob Dylan, Elton John and me – remembering the Great Levon Helm

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Levon Helm at Newport Folk Festival 2008 (photo credit WFUV Flickr Creative Commons non commercial)

Rock musician, actor and author Levon Helm is being remembered by many people since his death last week. Some are of those people famous and some like me, not. When I saw Levon Helm in The Last Waltz, it changed my live forever.

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Body surfing at the Festival of Colors

A cross between a rock concert, paint ball party and religious festival

Festival of Colors Thomas Hawk Body surfing at the Festival of Colors photo

Holi Festival of Colors, Spanish Fork, UT (photograph Thomas Hawk)

If you thought Utah was just for Mormons and Mitt Romney, you missed the Hindi Holi Festival held at the Sri Sri Radha Krisha Temple, in Spanish Forks Utah on March 24-25th, 2012.

The Hindi Holi festival announces the coming of spring and the passing of winter.
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Witnesses are fixin’ for us to die

Jehovah’s Witnesses still calling on God to smite the rest of us 150 years later

Codey Bramley Witnesses are fixin for us to die photo

Ready to drive your call - 6 months of bible study and Codey Bramley is A NEW MAN: one of 28 people to be baptized at the 3-day Jehovah's Witness conference in New Zealand

Unlike the Catholic Church which has amassed gold, paintings and buildings in the current world, Witnesses are hoping we all die soon. They want to take our SUV’s and houses.

Good luck Codey with your new life that took only six months of bible study and a dunking.

You and 7 million Jehovah’s Witnesses are in line to collect the earthly goods of all 7 billion members of the human race alive today.

“Souls were saved by the masses in Palmerston North this weekend.  More than 3000 Jehovah’s Witnesses packed into the Arena Manawatu Pascal St Stadium to learn how to survive the end of the world.”

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The rapture is not coming

I’ve dandelions to pull and got to finish the recording of Bob Dylan’s 70th Birthday song

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Bob Dylan Saved, but not yet

I’ve heard it “all before and I know the score.”

The world is not ending nor will some religious people get raptured to Heaven.

There is a lot of work to do, here there and everywhere.

All the religious people who want things to come to a climactic end aren’t going to force God’s hand, despite trying to get some action for almost 2,000 years. Continue reading