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September 2013

September 04, 2013
A couple of friends, I mean real friends not Facebook friends have informed me they've...
September 03, 2013
William Wordsworth's poem "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" was written on, well, this...
September 02, 2013
Our Hero is from Zen priest, social activist and folk singer Alan Senauke's album Everything...
September 02, 2013
For more...
September 01, 2013
ONE CONTINUOUS MISTAKE A Meditation in the Shadow of an Assault on Syria 1 September...

August 2013

August 30, 2013
While researching for a sermon I ran across the following publicity description of someone whose,...
August 30, 2013
Today is observed, in some more or less official way, as a celebration of the...
August 28, 2013
Step by step the dream is being realized. We've come a good way. And it...
August 27, 2013
I've been thinking a little about those wondrous moments when great religions encounter each other....
August 23, 2013
There's a new survey out showing how people feel about being of color in our...
August 22, 2013
Two minutes and fifty-four seconds showing the 2012 Buddha's birthday celebration at the Great Heartland...
August 20, 2013
Had such a lovely time visiting with the Great Heartland Buddhist Temple of Toledo over...
August 14, 2013
Wishing Steve Martin a happy birthday...
August 13, 2013
So, there I was sitting at one of our organizing meetings for Voices of Faith,...
August 12, 2013
YOU DON'T SAY We Can't help seeing through words, but it's worth trying James Ishmael...
August 11, 2013
I've just learned from Wikipedia (yes, maybe not the last word on any given subject,...
August 08, 2013
Dr Robert Smith was born in St Johnsbury, Vermont, on this day in 1879. By...
August 07, 2013
On this day in 1794 George Washington ordered the creation of a medal that quickly...
August 04, 2013
I forget precisely, but as I recall it, in one of his novels, perhaps the...
August 03, 2013
I just love Pablo Stanley's cartoon. (For more by Pablo, go here.) Admittedly there are...
August 02, 2013
Peter O'Toole turns eighty-one today. Made me think of that film that for so many...
August 01, 2013
Here's a link to the Dharma talks given at the 2013 Boundless Way sesshin. May...
August 01, 2013
Today is Lammas, the festival of the wheat harvest, and the first of the various...

July 2013

July 28, 2013
I do love this set of pictures from Zen Mountain Monastery. I think they can...
July 27, 2013
This afternoon Jan and I dragged ourselves into our Pawtucket house after a two hour...
July 19, 2013
When I was visiting with my old friend the Zen teacher Grace Schireson at the...
July 18, 2013
Then, after posting this, an old friend reminded me of this anthem. At a time...
July 17, 2013
Well, it's happened. Today is my sixty-fifth birthday. For the last several years I've passed...
July 15, 2013
I join those who were appalled at the not guilty verdict at George Zimmerman's trial...
July 14, 2013
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