started<\/a> in Chicago. I quickly spent a hundred bucks before prying myself out by promising to return in a week or two. I parked the books behind the counter and continued my walk to the local coop grocery, purchasing as poor areas of cities seem to specialize in, limp lettuce, wonky bananas and suspicious looking apples. <\/p>\nEating some Trader Joe portabella-stuffed ravioli\u2019s for dinner I gloated over my stash. I ended the evening watching some TV and avoiding work on the book I\u2019ve promised Wisdom Publications. (Just an edit-job, I tell myself. Won\u2019t take long, I tell myself. And with a hundred channels, there must be something edifying and entertaining, I tell myself. Funny how often I\u2019m wrong\u2026)<\/p>\n
Today I plan on spending the morning doing school related things, then, as the TV said today would be sunny but the rest of the week cloudy and perhaps filled with rain to try to find a direct bus downtown and do a little exploring. <\/p>\n
While noodling the web I ran across a site put up by an old Zen friend. I like him for lots of reasons, but one is he\u2019s an anachronism among us pale, close cut haired middle-class Zendoids who\u2019ve come to dominate that scene. Lots of hair, if now thinning, disapproves of jobs that aren\u2019t directly related to his interests even if it keeps him dirt poor, but handy and industrious, likes spending time in a shack in northern Vermont\u2019s woods, has lots of pagan friends as well as the Zen types, knows what a zafu is for and knows the real koan is his life. Turns out he\u2019s a bit of a prose poet and has an online version of a small collection originally published in a small New York literary rag which I found much more interesting that what\u2019s on TV. It\u2019s called the Heathen Preacher<\/a>.<\/p>\nRelata refero. Ne Iupiter quidem omnibus placet.<\/em>
I only tell you what I heard. Jove himself can\u2019t please everyone.<\/p>\n
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