When things go sideways, as they always do – When life’s like a steak that’s too tough to chew, When you lack the legs to make the jump And, try as you might, can’t get over the hump, And everyone calls you to show True Grit – Do what intelligent dogs do: quit. If you’re […]
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A gentle rain is falling. It’s evening now and all is quiet. Too quiet! With every passing moment the garden, the malignant garden is growing. We’ve warned friends to watch out, that the squash vines may be growing faster than they can run! Savvy friends visiting our ranch know about our squash problem and lock
My visit to the Great Stupa of Dharmakaya in the Colorado mountains was, by design, an unresearched event. I wanted to experience the visit with no preconceived notions. So, on the way from Walden to Ft. Collins, I turned left at a little roadside community called Rustic and drove up a steep, windy washboard road
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She talks to me from my bed Taking four of the five pillows. She is A street-clothed story teller, a poet, An urban fairie, writing words with her tongue For me to see Gauging her tales By the cascading of her ebony tresses She becomes a performance artist Underscored by the music From the stereo
Human beings have expended so much energy filling the world with thoughts and ideas that have reverberated down through time in both equal parts profane and profound—talking, talking, and talking while all along we’ve been accompanied on this journey through the ages by the silence of the animals. They’ve been swept into the current of
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It’s Saturday morning, and I’m just out of bed. I pour a cup of coffee, stagger into my living room, and grab my television remote. Back in my younger days, I’d have searched the channel guide for Scooby Doo, Where Are You?, Looney Tunes cartoons, or even Super Friends, but times have changed. Saturday in
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