Kick the Bucket List

The co-author of the best-selling travelogue 100 Things To Do Before You Die, David Freeman, passed away on Aug. 17, after falling and hitting his head at home.  He was 47 years old.
The compiler of perhaps the first commercially successful “bucket list” had visited only about half of his described “must see” places before he [...]

Creative Urges

Buddhism and blogging should be dichotomous. Buddhism requires egolessness while blogs proliferate as perhaps the most ego-driven obsession around. To believe that anyone cares about the blogster’s witticisms, banter or jabberings — let alone have a stat counter (which we don’t) serves as the antithesis of Buddha’s teaching of “no self.”
Yet the creative urge [...]

Thoughts for the Dalai Lama

We send our thoughts and dedicate our tonglin practice for the Dalai Lama.  We hope you return to your exuberance in health and spirit soon.

Sign of the Times

A Baptist church a few blocks from us posts this sign:

Serving God since 1986

Wonder where He took His business before then
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