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(1) not alarmism ant moralism moralist man immoral ants mailman sort i'm at normals mama nostril latino smarm i'm almost ran storm animal i'm atonal mrs inmost alarm mortal man is i'm sat normal oilman smart trim a salmon i'm salmon art i'm on art slam most in alarm alarm not sim its moral man .. etc  (2) When I go to air, I breathe When I go to water, I drink When I go to earth, I die When I go to fire, I am reborn When I go to ground, I am here When I am here, I look to be there When I am there, I try to get here When I realize, I am reborn So everything is more beautiful than everything else And everything I'm telling you I'm telling myself (3) ANTONY GARRETT LISI transliterating yo retranslating toy i retranslating it yo

Again, some random bits from my journals ... (1)  Untitled Poem I 've got to be stopped And I'm just the man for the job Been working on it for years Your guess as good as mine as to why I'm still here (2)  Untitled Poem I dreamed the universe And it dreamed me I dream of you And how we came to be Reasons have I few Yet persistence in blue Of all the things I dream It's the one I do (3)  Untitled Song Chorus B e still my beating heart The hope is too much, too much Be still my broken heart The loss is too much, too much (4)  Fun With Anagrams M y name (Martin Lomas): not alarmism ant moralism moralist man immoral ants mailman sort i'm at normals mama nostril latino smarm i'm almost ran storm animal i'm atonal mrs inmost alarm mortal man is i'm sat normal oilman smart trim a salmon i'm salmon art i'm on art slam most in alarm alarm not sim its moral man .. etc My brother (Stephen Lomas): solemnest hap elephant moss pathle...

Since I've gathered stacks of notes, I'l put up two at a time. (1) Yeah, Buddhism. It goes roughly like this ... I had for years been a "seeker", but mostly not in a spiritual way. I had a science education background, and it was science that was going to have all the answers. And of course, science is very good at answering certain questions. But as my thinking broadened, it was clear that what science really didn't do was even ask the big questions. I think part of the reason Douglas Adams was able to riff on the idea of "Life, the universe, and everything", is that while science has gone to amazing places, it can seem further away from tackling such a big question. Really, the answer truly may as well be 42. While Buddhists don't proselytize, what does reach public ears reached mine, and to me was really curious. Somebody told me the Buddha was an ordinary guy who figured out how to get relief from suffering. I'm ever skeptical, but it wa...