>Burma Protests: the Situation on October 02 Rangoon, evening—A UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari met detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi for a second time, hours after an audience with Burma’s military leader Tuesday. The UN’s special envoy met with Snr-Gen Than Shwe, Deputy Snr-Gen Maung Aye as well as other leading generals in the…

> All great literature, ancient and modern, is a bridge connecting one human being to another, one spirit to another. The quality of our life is determined by how many of those bridges we can cross. President Ikeda of SGI Great to read this as I have been working like crazy on my own piece…

>Stand with the Burmese Protesters After decades of military dictatorship, the people of Burma are rising – and they need our help. Marches begun by monks and nuns have snowballed, bringing hundreds of thousands to the streets. Now the crackdown has begun… When the Burmese last marched in 1988, the military massacred thousands. But if…

>eye4images: Melanie – Doomed to be Cute Found this great review from Melanie’s concert in Manchester. Feel I was there.

> Shiny streets, wet people. The smell of fungus. The hallmark of Fall.

> Had a wonderful time with my two friends from New York. We met 28 years ago at the Women’s festival 1979 in De Melkweg. My girlfriend and I were the ‘janitors’- the guardesses we called ourselves at the old prison where the guests and artists of the Festival stayed.When the festival was over we…

>President Ikeda from SGI: Human life is indeed wondrous. You may be ill physically, but as long as your mental state is strong, it most certainly will exert a positive influence on your body. There may be no better remedy than hope.

> Another one of America’s great artists. Don’t know much about her life. I saw her paintings and was deeply impressed and moved. This night I found her on the Internet. I see her walk, I see where she painted. I am so grateful. Now I am going to find out who she was.

>In 1980 I made my first trip to the USA as a grown up. New York New York was my first stop, I planned on travelling all over the US for three months but never left Manhatten….. I stayed with my dear friend Pamela Camhe (who happens to be here right now) in Camp Canal…

>AMSTERDAM: French women, says a recent bestseller, don’t get fat. Japanese women, says another, don’t get old or fat. But their sisters in the Netherlands may have one up on both of them. That is because Dutch women, according to a book just released in the Netherlands, don’t get depressed. After scores of interviews with…