It’s Father’s Day so I am taking a break. My father is long gone–only a dim memory remains and what I know from others. He died when I was seven. I am a father but away from the young persons (no longer children but not quite fully functional adults even at 22 and 25) while [...]
Eclectic it may be, this blog still needs a focus. That focus is coming, in the form of attention to changes forthcoming in America. Not just the ones Obama hopes will put him in the White House, but the kinds that futurists talk about. Unlike other past and present futurists, I want to offer more realistic and [...]
They work in the mine or temporary construction projects, leaving family behind. They’re young and transient, finding work where they can. One just left for a better job in Alaska; a long haul from New Mexico for a Washington State resident. Another leaves today for Wyoming, with his parents hauling the trailer back to Arizona [...]
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It’s amazing how spam drops off when posting does. Now that we have arrived and set up the RV shop in New Mexico, I can get back at it. Along the way in getting here we were protected and continue to be protected by our Buddhist practice and unfolding mission. Although we suffered a leaky [...]
NOTE: I mistakenly published this as a page, yesterday; it should have been a post. By taking a detour to Paducah, Kentucky from Louisville instead of heading directly to St. Louis, we missed much of the nasty weather the end of the week. She got to see the Quilt Museum, an unexpected diversion. We also missed the bad [...]
The ecology movement (huh–what’s that?), just one of many things happening at the end of the sixties, running into and through the seventies. One of the things that appealed to me about Buddhism when I began the practice is that it recognizes the interrelationship of self and environment. Ecology is the holistic comprehension of how [...]
As Earth Day arrives again (okay all you 20-30 year olds, have you even heard of Earth Day–no offense if you are so environmentally conscious, it has not been big news in recent years), an odd couple emerges in a commercial: Nancy Pelosi and Newt Gingrich. Who would of thought? In the ad, the pair [...]
No promises when, but the next step will be to add some audio and video here–as in podcast or vlog. Upgrading, updating and learning new stuff in the midst of book marketing and travel planning is challenging. But mental exercise is good for the brain, eh? Anyway, I am off to see Michael Lisagor’s one-man [...]
It makes no sense. Logically, scientifically, rationally I doubt it. Yet it seems more plausible than any other explanation that either there is a ghost (a poltergeist) which inhabits electronic devices in my house or there are strange emanations coming from me (brain waves?) that cause the strange behavior.
Perhaps I should have noted it then, but in posting my comment on the passing of Martin Luther King and mentioning my mother’s teaching me about the evils of racism, I missed the fact that she died exactly five years before King. As I came to visit her in the hospital that day in 1963, [...]