Normandie – 23 août 2011 –  » Est-ce le matin ou l’après-midi ?  » : La pratique des koans

Off to Portugal for retreat. Then disappearing into the landscape. Before returning for more retreat in France. No words here until end of August. We're all in this together! And à bientôt all the same. Be well.

In the course of doing some translation work this afternoon, I come across a reference to an Indian people of the Pacific Northwest of North America, a people called the Kwakwaka'wakw, for whom wealth and status were not determined by how much you had, but by how much you had to give away. "The status [...]