{"id":44,"date":"2011-05-22T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T19:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2011\/05\/another-odd-day-in-minnesota\/"},"modified":"2011-05-22T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T19:53:00","slug":"another-odd-day-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wildfoxzen\/2011\/05\/another-odd-day-in-minnesota.html","title":{"rendered":"Another Odd Day in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-CPyTcPA6IY4\/TdmuhLlDEFI\/AAAAAAAABbE\/5S-22nJxh7o\/s1600\/Picture+21.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"316\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-CPyTcPA6IY4\/TdmuhLlDEFI\/AAAAAAAABbE\/5S-22nJxh7o\/s400\/Picture+21.png\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>The above (~1984 at Hokyoji) was from a practice period 4 or 9 day \u2013 we were free of commitments. Nonin was off to do so bird watching. Roshi wanted to go for a walk and needed a hat to shade his bald head so I found these \u2013 mine so he didn\u2019t seem odd. \u201cReally, Roshi, everyone is wearing them.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>An odd factor today was the strong storm that ripped up the north metro. It doesn\u2019t seem that there were any personal injuries but many trees are down and lots of buildings damaged (later correction: one person died and a couple dozen sustained injuries).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><span style='font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif'>Finally, you can find odd <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>dharma<\/a> talks by the odd Dosho over at the norm \u2013 Sweeping Zen. There\u2019s a collection from my travels during the last year. <a href=\"http:\/\/sweepingzen.com\/category\/audio\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here<\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/4330911338438640912-8713357646499157407?l=wildfoxzen.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above (~1984 at Hokyoji) was from a practice period 4 or 9 day \u2013 we were free of commitments. Nonin was off to do so bird watching. Roshi wanted to go for a walk and needed a hat to shade his bald head so I found these \u2013 mine so he didn\u2019t seem odd. 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