en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/545874 Comments by peacfulplace2 http://shambhalasun.com/sunspace/cockroaches-to-kill-or-not-to-kill/#IDComment22531875 Nice to chat with you Mark, I'm not really looking for sterile, it's more like minimally sharing my space with potentially disease caring creatues and making descisions I can live with regarding their life as well as mine. No solution is perfect in this human realm. Thu, 28 May 2009 13:59:05 +0000 http://shambhalasun.com/sunspace/cockroaches-to-kill-or-not-to-kill/#IDComment22531875 http://shambhalasun.com/sunspace/kd-lang-a-voice-a-few-lifetimes-old/#IDComment22530760 I have seen k.d. in concert 5 times and find myself watching her sing as well as listening to her sing. Watching her take in the music, add in her voice, and fill the concert hall is amazing and emotionally overwhelming for me at times. A true artist, indeed. Thu, 28 May 2009 13:38:05 +0000 http://shambhalasun.com/sunspace/kd-lang-a-voice-a-few-lifetimes-old/#IDComment22530760 http://shambhalasun.com/sunspace/cockroaches-to-kill-or-not-to-kill/#IDComment22329299 I keep the mouse out of my house by giving him birdseed out side. I keep the squirrel from chewing my shingles by rubbing habenaro pepper on the shingle. the black ants stay out of the house for they are drawn to the sugar dripping from the hummer feeder. If there isn't a food source in the house for them they will leave. LIke in the movie 7 yrs in Tibet. Kundun says to Brad Pitt's character "you're smart, think of something". Tue, 26 May 2009 14:43:48 +0000 http://shambhalasun.com/sunspace/cockroaches-to-kill-or-not-to-kill/#IDComment22329299 http://shambhalasun.com/sunspace/so-sunspace-readers-whats-for-dinner/#IDComment21847955 I do not take my life nor any other life for granted. I can not, as a matter of Buddhist principle, eat living creatures any longer. I have been practicing Buddhism for almost one year and my studies in the Ngondro under "precious human life" has taught me this. Tue, 19 May 2009 22:01:57 +0000 http://shambhalasun.com/sunspace/so-sunspace-readers-whats-for-dinner/#IDComment21847955