I came across this bit of a story while sipping coffee and reading James Ishmael Ford early Thursday morning – “In that book I recalled a friend, Bob Jessup. He had recently died from…

There’s something that rings childlike (for me) looking at and traveling down a small ‘pier’ out to a floating ‘dock’ in a body of fresh water. A chance to answer the mystery of what’s…

I have been a member of the Pacific Zen Institute for four years. In that time I’ve been attending Tuesday night story groups offered by PZI teacher David Weinstein, Roshi, who at some point…

Early Monday morning I decided to change my life almost entirely, sometime between the end of my first 34 minutes of sitting (3:50a) and the last word on the third page of my Morning…

So, late Saturday afternoon, ushering in evening…….hey, I’d hiked Laguna Lake way early and raced to get a coffee, then after ditzing around in my room and something like a lunch, I motorvated down…

This photo was snapped by me on Reed College Way in Portland, OR sometime in the late spring of 2021, perhaps a couple of months after learning of my wife Susan’s clear desire for…

(The idea for this post arrived while I was hiking Wednesday afternoon. I was just the host.) I’m a cat person. Have been, will be. Though, likely my greatest pet/companion was my dog Taffy,…

I worked a longer shift yesterday so my YMCA compadre Jorge could have the afternoon to attend a career day/fair for computer science majors at Cal Poly. When I left work I drove to…

So, this is an abbreviated post for this morning. Feel free to send flowers, money, cards of various condolence, cool photos of cows. Monday early afternoon, working with the fact that my hair had…

I never jumped all the way into the ocean this year, nevermind not a single rushing ride on a boogie board. The fact is I gave my boogie board away when I left San…