avril 2011
Observations, temporarily
Here I am at my desk again, fingers poised over the keyboard, no idea what will come next. A thought of something I read the other day about the necessity of great empty space in [...]
Here We Are
At last, the long-promised video from my reading in January at Berkeley Books in Paris. For the moment, I'm posting only the final piece that I read, "Here We Are." Perhaps others will [...]
Day to night, with apple blossoms
Night again. Suddenly I recall that dawn was pink this morning when I looked up while making tea. A terrible smell filled the Métro end to end this afternoon. We all shared it. Later in [...]
The immeasurable measurabilty of the immeasurable
First entry of this "new" month, which follows what seemed like the endless month of March. From here, I have no view of that long-ago beginning. Yet month to month, moment to moment, "life" is [...]
mars 2011
What else is new?
Interesting how many news reports are gleefully focusing on the link between the Fukushima nuclear crisis and the defeat of Mrs. Merkel's party in a German state election. Interdependence anyone? What else is new? Myself, [...]
Discovery in bloom
Suddenly a bush of yellow flowers is blooming in the garden behind my house. It occurs to me that I did not invent or make them, I "discovered" them, just as each of us do [...]
Looking for the edge
So now after a fine day under blue sky and radiant sun it's evening. I accomplished my daily tasks, at work and at home and in between, trying to listen unconditionally to the sounds of [...]
First day of spring
First day of spring. Brilliant sunshine here, blazing marvelously in through the window over my shoulder. What is there to say about that, or about a dubious rain falling in Japan now in the middle [...]
We are all Japanese
The "news" from Japan continues to swirl with a dizzying array of disasters. Each shock seems more incredible, more impossible, than the other. Untold numbers of people are facing untold suffering. My heart goes out [...]
Japan when the earth moved
After the earthquake and tsunami, Japan now faces a death toll in perhaps the tens of thousands and an ever-widening and grave nuclear threat. So many lives undone in unimaginable ways give rise to compassion. [...]
Moonwalking, rue Lafayette
Late again, but the moon was such as I looked up from the street tonight that it seemed worth noting here. There were clouds, too, with the crescent slice afloat in the sky a deep [...]
Suspended, the state of things
I'm facing the computer screen, thinking and dreaming, writing an interminable book proposal, deep in thoughts about who we are, how we are, what we are. The cat's asleep as usual beside my desk. All [...]
Zen Art workshop, March 26-27
ZEN ART OPENING TO THE ART OF LIFE a workshop with Amy Hollowell Sensei, poet and founder of the Wild Flower Zen Sangha MARCH 26-27 PARIS Saturday: 14h-18 Sunday: 9h30-18h 85€ (in French and English) [...]
A meeting in the street
Already Saturday, 5th day of March, and I realize this is my first post of the month, and only second of the week. Counting, counting, counting... So now just back after some errands and a [...]
février 2011
Glimpse at times passed
Something strange and poignant experienced at a birthday party the other night for two people, one 50 years old, the other 60. I'm acquainted with these people only by marriage, people my husband knew years [...]
Pen and ink
A busy week, following the "daily" news at home and abroad - pathetic governmental doings in France and the ongoing bloodbath in Libya. Back to routine home life as the family returned from winter holidays [...]
The bite makes the apple whole
In an article I read recently, someone explains how Apple has succeeded in the computer and high-tech world by following what the writer calls the Zen notion of "leaving things out," rather than adding many [...]
Bearing witness
Had added a version of this as a reply to a comment on the previous post, but it feels important enough to merit an entry of its own here... Sorry to repeat for those who've [...]
Retreat notes, VI (One infinite territory)
Rain has been coming down all day, off and on, laced with a chilling edge. Late afternoon, and it's hard to imagine that it's warm and sunny somewhere, or snow-bound, or deep, dark night. Of [...]
Retreat notes, V (Open and connected)
Our "fifth day" is coming to an end for me here in Montreuil. We had our usual evening sitting at the Red Earth Centre and much lively discussion. I noticed that I was much less [...]
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