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January 2017

January 25, 2017
I stumbled on this in my archives. I have no memory of having written it,...
January 23, 2017
In his book The Demon-Haunted World the late great Carl Sagan gave us a "Baloney...
January 22, 2017
On January 22, 1906, Robert Ervin Howard was born in Peaster, Texas. He died by...
January 21, 2017
Donald John Trump, our new president if you haven’t heard, isn't particularly good at conveying...
January 20, 2017
Well, here we are. Enough people who are terrified at how the rich have been...
January 19, 2017
While Charlie Chaplain's Great Dictator was in the can, in fact the very first film...
January 18, 2017
I notice I usually write appreciations of people after they're dead. I thought, well, for...
January 17, 2017
The current conceit would have it that in Zen koan introspection is something that Rinzai...
January 16, 2017
My interest in going to see Patriots Day was a mixed bag. I don't have...
January 15, 2017
MARTIN’S DREAM A Meditation on Dr Martin Luther King, Jr and the Dreams that Connect...
January 14, 2017
One of those memories I treasure for the years I served at the First Unitarian...
January 13, 2017
As Zen first came west, kensho, or satori, was the great prize. The Zen priest...
January 12, 2017
        Narendranath Datta was born in Calcutta on this day in 1863...
January 11, 2017
I understand some scholars suggest that it was yesterday in the year 49 before our...
January 10, 2017
Within the Anglican communion today is marked as a feast for William Laud who lost...
January 09, 2017
Jan and I, when possible, like to take in a movie on Sunday late afternoons...
January 08, 2017
The Golden Door Some Brief Remarks Delivered at a Forum on Immigration & Deportation at...
January 07, 2017
Toward the end of the year 1609 Galileo Galilei, who had been tinkering with lenses...
January 06, 2017
Today is the feast of the Epiphany. A wonderful celebration within the Christian tradition. And...
January 05, 2017
Jan and I saw La La Land on Sunday. The headline: it was a delight!...
January 04, 2017
In the late nineteen sixties, caught up in the zeitgeist of the moment, as an...
January 03, 2017
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall...
January 02, 2017
Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan was born in Moscow on this day in 1914. She was the...
January 02, 2017
(The essay “Sufism & Zen” is taken from a collection of Nyogen Senzaki Sensei’s lectures...
January 01, 2017
The other day Jan and I and Jan’s mom went to see Lion, the film...

December 2016

December 31, 2016
Me, I’m quite glad to be done with 2016. And, I’m not massively positive about...
December 31, 2016
I've just been informed that the scholar Huston Smith died yesterday, the 30th of December, 2016....
December 30, 2016
It was on this day in 1879 that Venkataraman Iyer was born in what is...
December 29, 2016
I’ve just read Seth Zuiho Segall’s contribution to the current issue of Tricycle, “A More...
December 28, 2016
A while back someone suggested to me how the relationship between "spiritual and religious" might...
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