Sweet Rhythms
The weather has been wet and cold the last three days, so I’ve mostly been hangin’ with Baldo, Chica, and Mingo while doing stuff around the house. Today, though, I felt the need to reassert my fly fishing mentalite by […]
Category: MEDITATIONS
The Fence II
My little fence repair project is finished. I stained it this afternoon. I like it given that I kept the posts that were already in place, one of them–the big rough-looking post–being, as my brother reminded me, originally part of […]
The Fence
So much work that can and should be done around the yard and house, but I try to do one thing at a time within a limited time frame so I don’t get bored and the work doesn’t get tedious. […]
Tiger’s press conference
I just finished watching Tiger Woods’ press conference. Unlike those television commentators I have listened to so far commenting on Tiger’s “A+” performance at his Masters’ press conference, I wasn’t very impressed with Tiger’s performance and the quality of the […]
Transitions. Movements.
This past winter’s labors were light by any standard. The fresh bag of snow melt, opened late last year and used only a handful of times, yearns to understand its neglect. The snow shovels still propped against the tool shed […]
My Happiness Creed!
Note to reader: I wrote this piece about six weeks ago and submitted it to the “humor” page of a prestigious magazine that deals with important cultural and historical issues in the United States. Their announced acceptance/rejection time line has […]
Random Thoughts: Suicide and Heroes
I’ve been trying to sort my thoughts this morning. I feel like writing something, need to write something. Organize the chaos of sentiments. Assert my rational capacities over and against my dark irrational self. I’ve been trying to understand suicide […]
Tiger and the Buddhist Path
“I have a lot of work to do, and I intend to dedicate myself to doing it. Part of following this path for me is Buddhism, which my mother taught me at a young age. People probably don’t realize it, […]
Tiger Woods’ body found!
(I found this piece while searching for up-to-the-minute news on the internet about Tiger Woods. For people who want to know, indeed, who need to know, this will answer all your questions about our last, great [brown] hope. Prepare to […]
In the stream…
Let’s see… It’s been a while since I’ve done this writing thing. Not that I haven’t had ideas or even motivation. There’s plenty of worthy stuff and crap to comment on, but sometimes life’s river takes one for a ride […]