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Back from sesshin\u2026\n

Hard.<\/p>\n

Beautiful. <\/p>\n

Exhausted in a very good way.<\/p>\n

And now leaning of the terrible details from the catastrophe in Japan\u2026 <\/p>\n

This sad, lovely life\u2026<\/p>\n

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