& a wee bit depressed.
Well, ok, a lot depressed; I've been battling the big blues for the last month or so, since really realizing that I don't much like where I live.  I'm having a lot of trouble adapting to the culture of southern Maryland... which, for the most part, is full of very nice and truly friendly people.  But the "elephant on the table ( Read more... )

I was going to follow all of that with a brilliant exposition on Why Any Of That Matters, and of course, Life came along with its own ideas about it all.  And so here, truly, is why any of that matters. 
I had a dream last night where I lost something very sacred to me-- something I've had a fear of misplacing for a long while now-- and then I found ( Read more... )

Dogen Zenji, 13th century Zen monk made famous by his collection of Buddhist teachings, Shobogenzo, would say to students who realized his point of practice: "You have got my marrow."  I've been doing a lot of Shobogenzo study these days, in an effort to connect a little more deeply with the founder of my Soto lineage.  But it's ironic, I think, to ( Read more... )