A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

What you See is what you get!

Krishnamurti: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

What you see is what you get, indeed.

Why I Left America?



Image Source: Life Magazine

 Written by an American expat living in the European Union.


The truth is I just couldn't take being lied to by the American plutocrat owned corporate media anymore knowing that there are an estimated 59 million medically uninsured fellow Americans out there. It just became too painful for me to take anymore. By contrast everyone you look at it in the European Union has access to medical from cradle-to-grave by right of law. It's considered to be a human right. Why isn't it a human right in America?...read more here.

Google says delaying clean energy will cost the U.S. trillions

Google, a leader of innovation in the digital economy, says that without a private and public focus on innovation in renewables, storage, and electric vehicles, the cost of delaying the clean energy economy could be in the trillions of dollars to the U.S. economy...Read the rest here.

Tchaikovsky Competition

According to the competition's site @

http://www.tchaikovsky-competition.com/en/2011/pia...

Sara made it all the way to the penultimate round, but not the final one, which will end in a couple of days. The initial pool for the piano competition had about 30 contestants. Here's a performance by the S. Korean Son Yeol-Eum, who made it to the final round:

Daneshpour in Tchaikovsky Copetition

Sara Daneshpour performs Prokofiev—Piano Sonata No. 7

Moscow, June 2011.

"Let the beauty we love be what we do.

There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."

-Rumi