And now for something completely different. For a few days I was away for a special kind of reunion. From my presentation page you might already know that I am a nut when it comes to great dogs, especially from the one breed called kuvasz [koov-ahs, koo-vahs]. Guess what, I even have a kuvasz stretched out right now in front of the door, on the porch. So, the reunion I was attending is an annual meeting of the kuvasz breeders and fanciers in Hungary. A rare occasion to meet special people, all in love with this outstanding dog. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, the kuvasz is an ancient Hungarian breed, a very special kind of guard dog with an amazing history of thousands of years. Not many breeds are still carrying that kind of natural force in their genes. Unfortunately the kuvasz breed is now affected by modern lifestyle plagues, being in danger of loosing its purpose, thus its millenary inheritance. Being part of the effervescence around helping the kuvasz regain its rightful place is a significant experience to me for many reasons.

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In straight accordance with your age, you are now in a distinct phase of your life where you are redefining yourself. Self-definition is an ongoing process, for as long as you live. Our lives are subdued to a historical presence and an existential reality. The historical presence is also subdued to live in a comparative reality. In every time sequence of our lives, the comparative approach is remodeling our identity. And comparative approach is dependent on the cultural, social and historical context. This dependency is what creates the frames for us, mostly in how we can manage to define ourselves. This self-definition needs to be ever reassuring in order to keep our balance. We live now, so is the actual context in favour of this need for self-definition? With all the progress of the modern world, is it easier today to define ourselves?

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A special moment this is. Now is the second milestone of the Vertegram blog, accompanied with some special and well deserved prizes. So, after a short break, back to some graphomania. Turning back the digital pages of Vertegram, it was edifying to see the main streams of thoughts I was playing with. Here are some conclusions and the surprise awards.

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My dear friends and readers! I haven’t been posting for a short time, but believe me I had the sweetest reason on Earth for that. Just take a look at the picture. It was/is one of the most extraordinarily wonderful experiences of my life!

Will be back to blogging after a short while, now I need to be with my family.

Cheers!

My good friend who is often commenting here, Razvan, recently draw my attention to something from the news, which I am not sure if is hilarious or disgusting. This news is related to the - so far - windmill fight of the Tibetans for their country and beliefs. Much degrading inhuman deeds, much unforgiveable violence was/is there. Even for a true Buddhist, it is utterly challenging to learn compassion in what was/is going on there. But this new turn given to the screenplay makes your mind stop and look around.

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After being seemingly the second most praised movie on personal development blogs - the first being undoubtedly “The Secret” - I decided to watch “Peaceful Warrior”. Made after a book written by Dan Millman and according to the movie makers “inspired by true events”. I never had the chance to read the book, a chance that I never gave myself. As far it concerns the true events behind the story, it just made me curious to get on with watching it.
Now let’s get on with some comments on this movie.

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When adulthood is near, there are all sorts of events trying to introduce you to it. While these are rolling, you get lots of good wishes, lots of well-wishing advices. But can you remember any of these? If so, good for you. You must have the memory of elephant. It is not the case for me. Anyway, this whole thing came up as I rediscovered one of those good wishes. In fact I was quite surprised by the wisdom in it. I don’t know if it was copied or it was an original one that popped out on the moment. But it is a remarkable thought. Here I am sharing it with you.

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Some quality stuff landed up on my monitor recently. Here I am sharing those with you. Also a new feature got included in Vertegram, I am presenting it to you now. Enjoy.

Continue reading ‘Quick links for 2007-06-06’ »

My starred items that showed up lately in my RSS reader. It is not easy for a post to get starred there. The competition is massive as in kindergarten. So these are well worth reading for sure.

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It is now a little more than a month since the Vertegram blog was launched. Although there were no milestones planned, nor scheduled, today I am creating one. This is the milestone of first reflections over the short history of Vertegram - so far. Lots of good things happened to this blog and through it to me too in this time. Let me share you a couple of them.

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