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A friend told me about " Omar ."

* From Joared's blog . Especially this which Joared quoted from the blog of Ronni Bennett: " Until a man is capable of giving birth...

Here. Last night I woke up at around midnight after about 5-1/2 hours of sleep.  Unable to go back to sleep, I read for awhile, listened to ...

This is for my mother who would have been 106 years old on April 30 and who gave up riding horses to get married and have children.  She was...

  Has anyone ever seen something like this before?  While walking in Big Rock Garden, I stopped to look at what has appeared to be a dead Ja...

"Margo Robbins is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Cultural Fire Management Council (CFMC), and one of the key organizers o...

It breaks my heart to know that Bob Dylan's song Masters of War is still as relevant as it was when it was first written many years ago....

* * Dear monastic and lay practitioners in our Buddhist communities far and wide -- In the days following Thay's continuation, I have be...

Yehudi Menuhin was born on April 22, 1916.

24 languages! Today a friend emailed me an article about a dear man who speaks 24 languages fluently and can converse in many more.  This ma...

  "I was made to die but I'm here to stay," writes Vuong in his second collection. It's perhaps as fitting a theme as ther...

As soon as it came out on DVD, I put Kenneth Branagh's "Belfast" on hold at our public library.  The waiting list was long.  O...

"... what is real but compassion as we move from birth to death ..." (Greg Brown, lyrics from "Rexroth's Daughter") ...

The Tower of Blue Horses, by Franz Marc From Franz Marc's Blue Horses, by  Mary Oliver I step into the painting of the four blue horses....

* * Volodymyr Zelenskyy  and the Ukrainian people are resisting the plague of the absurd.  

It is a joy to me to listen to covers of songs from my youth, especially this one that R gave to me during his year of experiencing war in V...

A Bob Dylan song with deep roots, interpreted by a young woman in 2021 with some lyric changes that speak to her experience.   * Taylor Spri...

* Last night I dreamed that at the end of a long journey, I found myself looking into a vast aquarium at a large blue fish who looked out at...

Please Call Me By My True Names From Plum Village App, regarding the talk on "War and Peace" with Brother Phap Huu and Jo Confino:...