• Information

    I need a few days off. Back next week.

  • important

    A late afternoon walk yesterday, on the phone with my son Cameron, and he’s sharing some medical information about his ongoingly battered body. I didn’t know some of it, and it scared me to…

  • not like a missing person

    Monday on the holiday trail: It all began when I didn’t have a job for six months – when ain’t it a holiday? – and this ongoing sense of my mind cracking open a…

  • what’s different?

    I finished reading David Hinton’s ‘The Way of Ch’an’ Saturday morning. It seems I was panting at ‘The End.” Pant, pant, pant. I’d read it through once before, but never like this. Back in…

  • just a speck

    After a full day, as reported, Wednesday, I spoke with only one human being yesterday; a five-minute phone conversation with my son Spenser. In it he told me he was having chile for dinner,…

  • 24-hour recipe

    Yesterday was a wonderful day of life’s pie filling. Up early for meditation; luscious coffee; fun in the Morning Pages; 25 minutes on Zoom with my teacher; off to early coffee with my great…

  • stories in paint

    Outside my Starbucks, NE Fremont and 15th, an hour later. There’s me taking a picture of me. I’m most fortunate to be offered a space to share art. Like here: Most of these arrived…

  • see you in september

    It felt like Monday was the last day of summer. Upper 80’s. Today’s forecast 15 degrees less, tomorrow 25 less. And tomorrow they say rain, a bunch of it, and I’ve found myself yearning…

  • zip a dee doo dah

    “Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking brings us close to the actually existing world and its wholeness.” That’s…

  • all of it

    Yesterday was a very interesting day. I was, I am, most fortunate to be alive on the planet.