Beginning Year Three

We're now just past the third-year mark since Tame Bear learned of Traffic Exchanges and has made them a part of his life, at varying times and degrees. So it ...

Lakes of Fire

The Bear didn't know about regional Burning Man events until last year, as a "virgin" burner in Black Rock City, 2011. Pleased to discover a local Great Lakes conclave, I ...

Reinstating Pluto

The planet Pluto was "demoted" nearly six years ago to "dwarf planet 134340 Pluto", and quite frankly it still rankles The Bear that we no longer have a planet "Pluto" ...

Dancing Bear at the Social

Hey, I like to think my own success was based on one thing only -- my remarkable congeniality, or what might these days be called "social friendliness." I type fast ...

Focused Meditation

It may help you to begin a practice of meditation by narrowing your focus. Recall that the purpose of meditation is to transcend the apparent duality of the world by ...

Hungry

I am hungry. I could eat something but that's not gonna satisfy this hunger. It's a hunger to know truth, and food is a distraction. Don't worry, I'm eating ok ...

See What the Earth Is Becoming

See what the world is becoming ...

BabelFish

"Let us recall that the Villa Agrees, seat of the municipal undertaking, accomodates regularly various demonstrations related to rites of passage." A translation, from French to English, by Yahoo Babelfish, of ...

Something Is Brewing…

Something is brewing at Traffic Ad Bar. Creator Darren Merrett presented these tantalizing tidbits in an email yesterday... Something new is coming! I've just updated the miniblog again, only 3 ...

Calamity On Our House

Sometimes clarity comes at the most inopportune moments. Listen to a brief heartfelt story from just about six years ago... Tame Bear presents an original audio podcast from 2006: Calamity ...