Mystery
We put our dear cat Whidbey down last week, after a long drawn out illness. Now I have this tube of ashes and a few tufts of fur to bury later. She was my favorite of all the cats, and has been with us for 17 years. Born in our backyard. Sister to Gretel who […]
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The cat lays on my hand in my lap and stretches. When I look for my hand, the boundary between cat and hand is dissolved and in its place there is a sweet oneness or unity that binds me to the life of all animals.
To celebrate this Christmas season, Tame Bear is pleased to present these two reprise podcasts of “TameBear Radio” from 2005 and 2006. During a “sabbatical from church,” Tame Bear finds there is still great anticipation and wonder at the baby’s birth. What is this loneliness, this longing we cannot find words to express? Perhaps what […]
That’s the teaser for a live televised press conference at NASA scheduled for just a few hours from now — at 12:30pm EST. Something has been discovered by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Science researchers who will be on hand to answer questions include: Jon Morse, director, Astrophysics Division, NASA Headquarters in Washington Kimberly Weaver, astrophysicist, […]
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In a remarkably well-articulated story by Huffington Post blogger Robert Lanza, we are given a tour of recent research and contemporary thought into the nature of time. From the paradox of motion passing through many moments of time (like individual frames in a movie); Heisenberg’s inevitable uncertainties as to location and direction of moving objects; to the […]
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Saw the new summer movie (sure to be a blockbuster) “Inception” this evening at our local Linway Plaza theater. It was amazing — a movie about dreaming, that leaves you wondering what is real, and what is dream. I don’t think it’s a spoiler to say that one of the most original ideas in this […]
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THE MYSTERY DEEPENS (Who Is Tame Bear?) God knows I’m letting go Of the pain that’s deep inside God knows how hard it’s been and how I know how much I tried. As we sail on down the street In a multi-colored dream One by one together we can learn to be free. God knows […]
Camille 1994-2010 Camille was our first and oldest cat, and she has been a part of our family for 14 years. When Treesh and I first received her, she was probably already about two years old. She had been abandoned, left with a litter of kittens at the back door of Faire Isle […]
Late last year I started watching the new ABC series “Flash Forward” on Hulu. It began with a deep mystery: everyone on the entire planet experienced a coma-like black out for about two minutes. During that time, most experienced a “dream” that could only be understood as being their future, six months out. One scientist, […]
I am greatly indebted to Alan Watts for introducing me to many new ideas in Oriental Philosophy — eastern religious and spiritual thought. Through listening to the “Alan Watts Podcast” I’ve learned a great deal about Buddhism, Hinduism, Zen, and Taoism; and I am arriving at a new understanding about concepts such as the ego, […]
