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The Amazon Conduit is Fixed

Team Vox
Nov 2, 2009
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Go forth and fill your libraries with media.

Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.

~daisy

Amazon Conduit Update

Team Vox
Oct 29, 2009
19 comments

I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.

I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.

Cheers,

daisy

Amazon Conduit: Update

Team Vox
Oct 20, 2009
23 comments

Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.

We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.

I will keep you posted.

Thank you for being so patient.

~daisy

Today is Blog Action Day! Blog for Climate Change.

Team Vox
Oct 15, 2009
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Blog Action Day

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Blog Action Day is every October 15th, when blogger are asked to post something about a single issue to show our strength and conviction as an online community. It's a great way to feel connected to the greater good, and the participation of so many bloggers to support the world's leading non-profit organizations is something you can do to help, right now. By blogging today, you're supporting some of the world's leading non-profits and sharing your voice for change.

This year's topic is climate change, and we'd love to read your thoughts on the topic. If you participate, leave us a link to your post in the comments, so we know to check out your post!

Go to www.blogactionday.org to learn more, get a badge for your blog showing your participation, and see some ideas for your post on climate change.

Can't wait to read your posts!

~ daisy

414. How the universe comes to know itself.

Citrine
Oct 9, 2009
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Live-Sky

'Not only are we traveling through the universe, but the universe is traveling through us. It needs to feel us, what we are feeling, our marvels and infatuations and heartaches;... to know what that stuff is, how it came to be and find its instrument, the source of its music; to experience itself in us or through us. But most of all, and forever, the mystery and the wonder.... To record and memorialize that, why we are here at all.

From the first droplet of anything against the first bare surface, we were essential to something vast, rough, ahead of and behind us. Our present struggles and planet-wide dangers are no accident; they are an actual contour of creation.

We are charged with a huge responsibility to bring it home. And this is not just some insoluble crisis or a daunting array of dire contingencies. Nor is it a game for phony spiritual saviors and self-appointed gurus to grandstand, for soldiers to march to victory, on any world accompanying any star.

We have chosen this - that cannot be said enough. We are trying to rescue the "real," and we are neither its victims nor its paragons.

Yet, it is okay to be this happy, this afraid, this alone, this once. It is more than okay; it is an obligation. For it will all turn into something else, in fact can only, can only become, in exile in these amazing shapes, what they are.'

- Richard Grossinger, The Bardo of Waking Life

'Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.'

- Terrence McKenna

'There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.'

- Douglas Adams

413. Mysterium Tremens et Fascinas (A tremendous and fascinating mystery)

Citrine
Sep 24, 2009
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SuperNatural

'We live in all we seek. The hidden shows up in too-plain sight. It lives captive on the face of the obvious - the people, events, and things of the day - to which we as sophisticated children, have long since become oblivious. What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color.'

- Annie Dillard

'The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows it not, and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead. We all had this priceless talent when we were young. But as time goes by, many of us lose it. The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement. It is the essence of his being.'

- Hans Selye

'Even with the understandable goal of avoiding unnecessary surprises, if you pattern your life too carefully, slowly you lose your sense of awe. I am not speaking here of the supernatural; I am speaking of the super in the natural.'

- Forrest Church

'All things cover up the same mystery; all things are veils that cover God.'

- Pascal

All of the above from Forrest Church's Lifecraft, The Art of Meaning In the Everyday

'What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get into the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things.'

- Haruki Murakami via WhiskeyRiver

Amazon Conduit Fix Date: October 15, 2009

Team Vox
Sep 11, 2009
37 comments

The Amazon Conduit will be working again on October 15, 2009. Thank you to everyone for your patience.

Have a great weekend,

daisy, Team Vox

412. 'Our world is enchanted, riddled with meanings, itself sacred ground.'

Citrine
Sep 10, 2009
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Heaven

'The mystery of life becomes ever deeper and more wondrous, the gift of life more precious and unaccountable. Remaining open to the unknown, we enter further into it. We grow in knowledge, yes, and in ignorance, but also in wonder and, finally, in trust.'

- Forrest Church

411. You don't want to know.

Citrine
Sep 5, 2009
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Tourist

'It may be when we no longer know what to do,

we have come to our real work,

and that when we no longer know which way to go,

we have begun our real journey.'

- Wendell Berry

'Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what is next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.'

- Agnes de Mille

'I'm a modern girl

but I fold in half so easily,

when I put myself

in the picture of success.

I could learn a trade,

or try to map the ocean...'

- Rilo Kiley

Amazon Conduit Update

Team Vox
Sep 2, 2009
26 comments

In my last Team Vox post, I let you know that we're aware that the Amazon conduit is broken and that we're working to fix it. Many of you want to know when it's going to be fixed and I'm so sorry I haven't gotten back to you about that sooner.

Unfortunately, I don't have an exact date to give you, but rest assured, the Amazon conduit will be fixed in the coming weeks.

In the meantime, I'm about to finish my latest book and I could use a few suggestions as to what to read next, so... if you don't mind, let me know in the comments what's on your nightstand and/or what book you think I absolutely must read next.

Thanks! :)

daisy