Couple of quotes

"We don't create something sacred. We find it right where we are by the way we deal with experiences."

Abbot Robert Joshin Althouse, a Buddhist priest and founder of the Oak Park Zen Community

"We have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world."

Jill Bolte Taylor in her recovery memoir, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

Thanks to Cathleen Falsani's column, where I found these quotes.

Connecting curious things

How might the arts be in any way connected to the idea of a colon cleanse? With difficulty, I think! C/cleanses don’t appear to be the sort of things that opera singers get into, nor artists, nor musicians - or at least, if they do, they don‘t talk about it much. (Colon Cleanse might be a good name for an aggressive pop group however.)
One blog that talks about both writing and colon cleansing is Write Niche, where one writer mentions a diet called the Sacred Heart Diet (also known as the Cabbage Diet). Sacred Heart Diet? I wonder what Catholics think about that.
One of the writers on this blog is Peter Petterson, who apparently writes on New Zealand. Unfortunately, access was denied to me when I tried to get more information about him.