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December 2016

December 27, 2016
I stumbled on this in my archives. I have no memory of having written it,...
December 26, 2016
In Eastern Orthodox circles today is the feast of James the Just. I usually mark...
December 25, 2016
The other evening Jan and I watched the 1951 film "Scrooge," the one featuring Alastair...
December 24, 2016
I recently saw a video clip that described how nineteenth century European immigrants brought Christmas...
December 23, 2016
Among the many interesting and sometimes weird things that has happened with the movement of...
December 22, 2016
I've just submitted the second draft of my current book, the Language of Dragons, to...
December 21, 2016
I see the ever lovely Anglican church celebrates today as a feast for the Apostle...
December 20, 2016
It was on this day in 1971 that the Group d'Intervention Medical et Chirugicale en...
December 19, 2016
Yesterday Jan & I went to see Rogue One. Today I want to write about...
December 18, 2016
At ten years old I was just told my blog Monkey Mind is now one of...
December 17, 2016
So, here we are in the great mid winter holiday season. Pretty much all religions...
December 16, 2016
Here we are winging into the Christmas season. And with it comes Christmas music. Frankly, some...
December 15, 2016
Martin Scorsese's latest offering, Silence, actually enjoyed a special initial release for the pope at...
December 14, 2016
And, well, this is Monkey Mind. According to the good folk at Wikipedia, "Monkey Day...
December 12, 2016
Manchester by the Sea isn't my sort of movie. I find broadcast news, newspapers and...
December 11, 2016
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form. Form is exactly emptiness, emptiness is exactly form. Heart...
December 10, 2016
In 2013 the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly was held in Louisville. And so for me...
December 09, 2016
I am currently re-reading Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop. Early on the young...
December 08, 2016
I so love telling the story. That wonderful old story. And, so, once again... Gautama...
December 07, 2016
Personally I'm not one of those folk who re-read novels. Said, as someone who the...
December 06, 2016
The wonderful Evelyn Underhill was born on this day in Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands,...
December 05, 2016
The Brain—is wider than the Sky— For—put them side by side— The one the other...
December 04, 2016
These two pictures show our Boundless Way revealing its heart. The first picture is from...
December 02, 2016
I'm off to sesshin at the Boundless Way Temple in Worcester, Massachusetts. See you all in...
December 01, 2016
I did note this last year. But, that's kind of how such things work. Today,...

November 2016

November 30, 2016
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born on this day in 1835. As a writer he first...
November 29, 2016
Off to Massachusetts to the Boundless Way Zen Temple for our Rohatsu Sesshin. After we get...
November 28, 2016
Yesterday, as Jan and I try to do several times a month in our early...
November 27, 2016
Today is one of my favorite days. As pretty much all my friends are told,...
November 26, 2016
Bat Masterson was a fixture of my childhood imagination, first as portrayed by Mason Alan...
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