http://gardenofdaisies.padraiginmurphy.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:30:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ali has requested, in response to Meg Fowler doing so, a fill-in-the-blank Love List from friends.  Here be's mine: Song you love: 'Shroud' by Ani diFranco Word you love: Ladle Academic subject you love: Philosophy Hobby you love: Cooking (it excites me that that has become true...) Type of baked good you love: Gluten-free, vegan ... http://gardenofdaisies.padraiginmurphy.com/2008/09/06/fill-in-the-blank-love-list/ Matt Good ranted today about a refusal to take sides in the Georgia conflict because all sides are taking lives--and that is not something that can be justified. He pointed out that this is not a conflict that began last month--that for a decade separatists have been inciting violence that has ... http://gardenofdaisies.padraiginmurphy.com/2008/08/29/peaceful-protest-existence-and-life/ About a year ago I expressed apprehension at the fact that I felt my views toward America were beginning to apply more and more to Canada as well, and I have to say in the interim it's only gotten worse. I've not been impressed with Canada's current government. I've not ... http://gardenofdaisies.padraiginmurphy.com/2008/08/25/oh-canada-sigh/ One of the more successful Canadian blogs out there is Meg Fowler's, and one of her regular posts is the "Friday Love List", which my dear friend Ali has recently picked up on as well. And this morning I've decided I could use a Monday Love List.  So with no further ... http://gardenofdaisies.padraiginmurphy.com/2008/08/18/monday-love-list/ I was chatting with a friend yesterday about my breakup and he commiserated that, "relationships are hard." To which I responded, "well, no." As in that is not how I would characterize my thoughts on what has happened. He nodded and said, "Yes, but, getting the ingredients right, it's difficult." ... http://gardenofdaisies.padraiginmurphy.com/2008/07/26/relationships/ This year I became increasingly frustrated by my being a tax-paying and voting citizen whose army was involved in a war that I felt I knew too little about. So this summer began, for me, with reading a number of books to try to remedy that a bit, and ... http://gardenofdaisies.padraiginmurphy.com/2008/07/24/some-books-toward-understanding-the-global-war-on-terror-and-canadas-role-in-it/ Everybody hates change right? And even if you learn to accept it, and grow with it, every body hates change right? Which is to say you can approach changes head on, knowing what makes them important, why they are necessary, or positive, but your body is still going to struggle ... http://gardenofdaisies.padraiginmurphy.com/2008/07/24/transitions/ 1. The belief in hell, and the fear of ending up there. 2. Fostering a detachment from this life. 2.a. and thus justifying not caring for our planet or the life on it (including one's own, and that of other people).  3. The acceptance of the devil or of this world as a ... http://gardenofdaisies.padraiginmurphy.com/2008/07/08/where-christian-theology-and-what-it-causes-scares-me/ I would like to announce that today our vegetarian, Jewish roommate went to get some ham at the grocery store for Gabe and me.  Sometimes irony is just so damn fun. http://gardenofdaisies.padraiginmurphy.com/2008/02/17/multiculturalism/ Man pays $14 million for a license plate '1' in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Okay, so first of all, some people have too much money and not enough brains. But that's old news. More importantly how the hell can a license plate, according to the article, have "only the western ... http://gardenofdaisies.padraiginmurphy.com/2008/02/16/western-numerals-anyone/