Zen & Neurosis

You Are Here

You Are Here

You are here. The sentence you see in bold letters next to a dot or pin shape on maps at rest stops, historical attraction city streets and airports.And in today's world on our phones; the arrow on the Google map showing you in real time exactly where you are and...

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Of Wall Calendars & Finding the Porch Within

Of Wall Calendars & Finding the Porch Within

Buying a wall calendar is an important ritual for me. Despite the ubiquitous digital calendar reminders available, there is something so real about a wall calendar. It greets me every day in the kitchen.  I write my expenses on it. I draw smily faces when I work out...

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Thoughts After the First Snowfall-November 2016

Thoughts After the First Snowfall-November 2016

The first snowfall comes like an unplanned ritual. We never know when, but when it happens we stop. Struck again by what seems a sudden and numinous change. Wasn’t it just yesterday the grass was green and in need of cutting? Now the Japanese Maple’s blood red leaves...

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Dental Appointment

Dental Appointment

I am in the waiting room at the dentist. Six months went fast. Last time I had a scarf wrapped around my face and now it is 90 degrees in the shade. My appointments always fall in July and then December, so any polite conversations with the staff revolve around either...

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Blue Lotus

Blue Lotus

After a harrowing day of meetings, difficult personalities and small personal failures that have reduced my consciousness to a crater of spiritual devastation, I still have to buy shampoo. And there in the drugstore I face a panoply of choice so overwhelming that I...

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Everything Natural

Endless Mountain Zendo

The Wonderstone Gallery

Mission Yoga

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