Steve’s Musings



Bob Dylan

I was reading a list of the top ten movies of 2003 at salon.com a couple of days ago and found Masked and Anonymous in that list. I had never heard of it. It’s a new Bob Dylan movie that came out this summer. I’m a big Bob Dylan fan going back to the mid […]


All right!

Finally saw “Return of the King” today. What a great movie. What an enduring theme. It was 1966 in Haight Ashbury that I first read the Ring Trilogy and was thoroughly intrigued by it. It’s remained a part of my personal mythology ever since. This has got to the best movie of the year. I […]


Love is the answer

The eternal religion is loving devotional service to God. It doesn’t matter what path you follow. The goal is the same. God is unlimited and therefore there are unlimited ways to attain this goal. Chanting God’s holy names is one way. God has unlimited names and God’s name is the same as God. Constantly living […]


The Greatest Gift

Look. It’s like this. In the beginning, God created the whole universe. I believe it was done through a big bang and that bang was the word of God. The universe expanded, galaxies, stars, planets, life, consciousness, etc. all formed in course of time and evolution played a natural role in this development as did […]


Shine on!

Yeah, it’s the holiday season, and everyone’s expectations are sky rocketing. Get a grip folks. We’re still living in the material world. Things are never going to be perfect here. Be happy for what you have. If you’re able to read this blog, you probably have quite a bit. Sure, we all want life to […]


Imagine

“Imagine there’s no countries/ It isn’t hard to do/ Nothing to kill or die for/ And no religion too./ Imagine all the people/ Living life in peace, aha./ You may say I’m a dreamer/ but I’m not the only one/ I hope someday you’ll join us/ and the world will live as one.” John Lennon […]


Wake up!

Well, here I go again. Definite proof I am appealing to a particular target market. Howard Dean is right. We are no safer with Saddam in jail. Saddam was never a threat to us. George Bush is a threat to us. Regarding Plan B, the Morning After Pill, anything that will help women avoid unwanted […]


Guys

It’s like why are men so cavalier when it comes to personal safety measures especially when doing stuff like home repairs? Does it have to bring out the macho, indestructible (in our own minds) genetic make-up we are ingrained with? My wife and I began tearing up our carpeting and redoing the hardwood floors this […]


A positive vision

Yesterday, my wife and I finally got to see The Matrix: Revolutions at the Imax. I was truly anxious to see this film, feeling I needed closure. I loved the first Matrix film and was just elated that so many spiritual themes were woven into the plot and that it was being so well received […]


The right to earn a living

Last night I was awarded the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award by the Kent-Ionia Labor Council. This was in recognition of the work I have been doing for three years along with the president of the Labor Council, the mayor-elect and other community leaders to get Grand Rapids to accept a Livable Family Income Incentive […]