{"id":618,"date":"2007-06-14T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2007\/06\/life-family-activities\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T01:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T01:57:00","slug":"life-family-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2007\/06\/life-family-activities.html","title":{"rendered":"Life: Family activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>While I\u2019m not out saving the world with philosophy or conquering existential crises with meditation, I can sometimes be found hanging out with my lovely family (pictured below).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1104\/545067880_05df4bda0b.jpg?v=0\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer;width: 400px\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1104\/545067880_05df4bda0b.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Here we all are after a day in Philipsburg, MT mining for sapphires.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/buddhist_philosopher\/545204467\/in\/photostream\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px;float: right;cursor: pointer;width: 320px\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1289\/545204467_dea1aff80f.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Better yet though, here I am with my Dad (photo by sister Eve) prepping for some clay bird-killing.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/buddhist_philosopher\/545083276\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer;width: 320px\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1338\/545083276_b7084c302a.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br>T-shirt of choice?  Of course, my Dalai Lama shirt from Arizona in \u201905!  One needs meditative focus to smoke them ther\u2019 birdies, and how else to remind myself of that focus than a Dalai Lama T-shirt?<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow \u2013 gotta love family; gotta love Montana in the summer.  \u2018Nough said.  (oh, \u2018nd yea, it dudn\u2019t take long in Helena for me to reacquaint myself with the <span style=\"font-style: italic\">beautiful <\/span>locul accent).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7907151-131049800785853029?l=americanbuddhist.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I\u2019m not out saving the world with philosophy or conquering existential crises with meditation, I can sometimes be found hanging out with my lovely family (pictured below). 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