I just heard the news this morning, on my way to the Farmer's Market. I just started reading her this year after hearing this interview on the BBC and reading several other articles related to the release of No Time Like the PresentRead more... )

Reb Zalman died today. I met him earlier this year, quite by chance. To see him --- to hear him teach and sing --- was to feel the heart opening. I thought the moment was important enough to note here. How strange to login and find my last post (private) was about him. I feel like I've been trying to find the words for the experience all year ( Read more... )

Several years ago I read a book called Turning the Wheel: Essays on Buddhism and Writing by Charles Richard Johnson. I have no idea where this book came from, but it hit when the time was right. It was about what I did know (writing) and what I didn't know (Buddhism.) I remember thinking, "In a few years this will probably mean more ( Read more... )

Some nice animation, especially if you like dogs, but the ending packs a punch. Oscar nominated this year.

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Genesis 3:11

It's snowing!

Last year I missed both autumn and first snow because I was in Costa Rica.

This year, I am grateful for both.

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I think I may have mentioned a conversation I had a few weeks (months!) ago with workcrush in which he's asked, "Who are your people ( Read more... )

Essayist and activist Terry Tempest Williams will be speaking at Tattered Cover Lodo June 14 @ 7:30. I will be attending. You are welcome to join me ( Read more... )

Brilliant interview with author Marilynn Robinson on John Calvin ( Read more... )

Reposted from FB, this Ben Hatke robot comic (courtesy of the beautiful sdn)
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It brought to mind Samuel Taylor Coelridge's Lime Tree Bower My PrisonRead more... )

Finally, this op-ed about Nuns on the Frontier opened a whole new world of imagination for me. Not exactly Death Comes for the Archbishop, nor Two Mules for Sister Sara (which, despite its many failings, has a very sexy arrow removal scene. Go Clint!) But a sincere wish that Timothy Egan was writing better pieces on his West beat... His writing ( Read more... )