March 3, when I arrived in Portland and had a four-hour window to wait on my about-to-be-landlady, I drove to The Rhododendron Garden, bought an annual pass, and strolled through places I knew, out…

It was just after 4:30 Friday afternoon I leaned back on a comforter smooshed against the wall, crosswise on the bed, and returned a call I missed from my friend Kate in Missouri. Kate…

End of the week update. My life feels incredibly rich, I become stunned a lot. My body is really achy and tired, like 28,000 stairs so far after I’ve done my best to avoid…

It’s been so cold up here in the attic nearly all the days it’s been home, and in the coffee shop Tuesday I felt in a coat pocket for a gel pen and came…

secret code up to the State Farm office, and the county food lady asks if I have a hundred bucks. There’s a sleek new dresser, so small, just over there, a young woman named…

Tuesday – How could you not be a tough cookie working in a laundramat? Zen master, I’m enchanted, between one summer walk and a second. No alarm necessary, scrub (blue) jay hopping from one…

I couldn’t quite come up with an understanding of Saturday on Saturday. How it was, how I was, how I am. The day felt like it was scooting about 90 minutes ahead of me…

Thursday afternoon at the Kentucky Zoom group the teacher was talking about meditation. Short version – There’s no wrong way to do it. When the time came for attendees to speak if they wanted,…

Tuesday night the teacher at the Pacific Zen Institute Koan group asked those attending this question – “When is the last time you whispered to someone?” Hearing that filled me with a sense of…

It was right around five o’clock in the afternoon yesterday when I realized my mind was blown. Not like blown out, call the cats in white suits and butterfly nets, but into some non-verbally…