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Disestrangement I am tired of the estrangement, Dean writes, referring to the hurtful politics that often afflict families and friendships. Me too. Tomorrow is the birthday of a loved one I haven't seen in way too many years. I've done a pretty good job, I think, of not letting our estrangement mess up my life. It helps to know the love is still there, huge and absolute. It will always be there. Yesterday evening I got a call from a good friend on her way back from a HAI workshop. She was ecstatic. HAI was, for her — as it has been for many people — miraculous. I had gently recommended HAI to her on a number of occasions, never making a big deal out of it. I didn't know she took up the invitation until last night. It was a great contact high (pun intended) to hear her in such a happy state. HAI — the Human Awareness Institute — is lousy at self-promotion. It doesn't have the evangelical urges of Lifespring, The Forum and all those other self-improvement movements that came out of EST in the Seventies and Eighties. HAI materials seem amateurish and goofy. But as a way to deal with issues around the big three — love, intimacy and sex — it has no equal. Because where HAI comes from is love. They've also been doing these workshops for a real long time, and they're very, very good at them. Looking back over the first 53 years of my life, I've seen a lot of miracles. It's no exaggeration to say that a huge percentage of them happened at HAI workshops. (And I am not easily impressed, believe me.) We talk about a lot of other stuff here in the Land 'o Blogs. But look at where the best of bloggery comes from and Love is what you'll find. If it weren't for the love, we wouldn't be here. iVillage needs Women Now you can "target" women along with whatever else you're looking to hit with an ad in iVillage. Here's the story, complete with an incongruous bladder ad for Oracle. [BTW: I just noticed that all the ads on CNET are for Oracle and Sun. I'll betcha a pound of Peets that we're looking at swap-outs here. Am I wrong? Anybody know?] Bladders? Blobs? Stains? CNET suddenly has these monster ads in the midst of their copy. They're not banners. They're worse. If they're not banners, what do they call them? Silver lining: at least they can be ironic. If you act now, people will look at you strangely. But if you act later, in the privacy of your own home, you may already be a winner! What exactly is this is about? It looks like a cross between a contest and a class-action suit settlement proposal. The irony prize goes to the "Privacy Policy" link on the left there. Go ahead: click on it.
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