Happy birthday, Gary!
Gary Snyder is an American original, teacher, translator, Pulitzer prize winning poet, environmental activist and American Zen pioneer.
As nearly everyone knows Jack Kerouac celebrated him as Japhy Ryder in the Dharma Bums.
Even though we share lineage connections (that’s Zen talk for meaning we practice in the same schools of Zen), I’ve only met him once. And the “met” really deserves those scare quotes, as what it was was I was working at Moe’s Books in Berkeley and he bought a bunch of books and I rang them up. It didn’t seem the time to bring up our Zen relations, so all we exchanged were the pleasantries of book buyer & seller.
One of the important ones…
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