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Month: October 2017
In Search of Beauty
I awakened in Japan this morning to learn of the terrorist outrage in lower Manhattan. It’s not the news any of us want to see wherever we are. We live in times that can easily be called disheartening. I have felt the encroaching darkness … Continue Reading “In Search of Beauty”
rain dance
Before I moved to CA where the sun shines most of the time (Neil Diamond circa 1971) and the ground is green for a brief few months a year, I generally thought of rain as a spoiler. I grew up with the children’s refrain… Continue Reading “rain dance”
Back in Business
There is something about coming back to Japan that resets my clock. Backwards. In a good way. Each time I arrive here I have the same feeling I’d get as a child when I’d go to NYC. On high alert, senses stimulated, fatigue banished.… Continue Reading “Back in Business”
Morning Blessings Received Years Ago, Not Forgotten
(This is a recently found account of a tour to a morning service at a Zen temple in Kyoto.) It was still a dark and cold early spring morning when we arrived a bit nervously at the impressive Zen temple in Kyoto. A young… Continue Reading “Morning Blessings Received Years Ago, Not Forgotten”
Guess who? inexperienced, bombastic, moron, #@%*#@g moron, impulsive, mentally ill, narcissist, bully, undignified, etc.
Watching the take-over of our country by the politicians currently in power is a bit like watching someone you’ve known and respected all your life suddenly become stinking drunk, unrecognizable and out of control.tchi You might watch in disbelief. You might leave the… Continue Reading “Guess who? inexperienced, bombastic, moron, #@%*#@g moron, impulsive, mentally ill, narcissist, bully, undignified, etc.”