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Happy Solstice the Return of the Light

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Winter Solstice Promises Return of the Young Light, December 23, 2004

Poem2 — Optimism I Dec 23, 2003

Return of the Light,December 22, 2007

I have made a tradition out of posting on the Winter Solstice and this year is no exception. What I like about the Solstice is that from now on, the days start getting longer rather than shrinking as they have for the last six months.

The idea that the days are getting longer but its still getting colder has always been somewhat enigmatic to me and probably to a lot of other people 

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Still Blogging and Some Changes

Hello world. You may have noticed that I have not posted much here recently. But do not worry, I am still  blogging.

I'm making some changes to  this blog. I'll introduce you to a few of them in this post.

I took my Mindware Forum blog on personal growth technology which has coexisted with Vision thing in the http://bruceeisner.com/mindware since I stared writing them in 2003. and moved it to its own domain at http://mindwareforum.com. 

That is still a bit of a work in progress and I have spent a lot of time just getting the programming plumbing right with Read more »

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It’s 12 Minutes to Midnight on April 16, 2010

Link for this Post: Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century Conference, San Jose, California It’s ten minutes to midnight on April 16th, 2010.Sixty years ago, on April 16, 1943, Albert Hofmann, who readers of this blog have been introduced to with on numerous occasions, took a small dose of chemical he had synthesized five years earlier while investigating a series of chemicals that could be made starting with lysergic acid, one of many chemicals that made were found in ergot, a mold that grows on certain species of grass including rye. While my description of the late Dr. Hofmann’s act sounds perhaps Read more »

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R.I.P. hipster homeowners (in Vegas) on Rebecca’s World

Link for this Post: Rebecca's World on vegas-times.com

A UNLV student in a Public Relations class was assigned to do a press release and media kit for a local non-profit. She picked Island Foundation and so we have been talking about blogs and social media and relaunching Island.

This is Rebbecca's blog, a post about the blight on Las Vegas Neighborhoods during this current recession. In my neighborhood as in the ones she describes, almost half the houses are vacant with foreclosure stickers.

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By Bruce Eisner