Glittering Muse http://glitteringmuse.com Unbearable Lightness. Humanist Spirituality. Balanced Living. Poetic Inspiration. Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:36:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What is Spirit? I use the words spirit and spirituality very freely in my writing. What do these words mean to me?

These ideas are based on personal experience, but are certainly influenced by my interest in science, Buddhism and yoga philosophy. I wish to highlight an aspect of being human which is difficult to categorize or analyze. [...]]]> http://glitteringmuse.com/2010/01/what-is-spirit/ Olberman on Health Care Reform

]]> http://glitteringmuse.com/2009/10/olberman-on-health-care-reform/ Spring Flowers These photos are from a few weeks ago, showing the earliest Spring flowers in my garden. My favorite is the copper colored Witch Hazel bush. Enjoy.

]]> http://glitteringmuse.com/2009/04/spring-flowers/ I’d love to be Obama’s Speech Writer While watching Obama’s excellent address to the joint session of congress, I wondered who wrote his terrific speech.

It’s Jon Favreau, called “Favs” by his friends, a 27 year old who plays video games to relax and likes to hang out at Starbucks or another coffee shop to write the brilliant speeches for our brilliant President [...]]]> http://glitteringmuse.com/2009/02/id-love-to-be-obamas-speech-writer/ My bizarre story about setting webmail browser as default mail sender I have recently become frustrated by the default mailto: default settings on my PC, which always open Outlook Mail when I click on an email address to send to.

These days, almost everyone used web based mail programs, which are accessible from anywhere on any computer, rather than downloading messages to a desktop email program such [...]]]> http://glitteringmuse.com/2009/02/my-bizarre-story-about-setting-webmail-browser-as-default-mail-sender/