The kindness of strangers
Imagine Ruthie dropping her credit card and struggling to get up. Now imagine that Ruthie has two bad knees such…
Category: Driving under the influence of Dunkin’ Donuts
The sound of silence
No complaints so far about the Made in America festival. Even during Cardi B’s closing set last night, which ended…
The dao of senseless kindness
Earlier I had mentioned that Toto left a large streak along the front of our sofa where she had been…
Wonder
This morning when Toto and I arrived at the plaza below our apartment there was a family on a Sunday…
Tangled up in blue.
I don’t know why the color blue always seems to be associated with sadness, from the “blues” to Bobby Dylan’s…
The Italians call it “sprezzatura”
When Anne Mei and I returned from our trip to Spain and France, a friend asked just one question, “Tell…
Metaphor, metonymy, and figuring out what we’re doing … or not.
In one of my posts last year on the science of effortless action, I reported on a New York Times…
Where is Louie Zamperini in the movie “Unbroken”?
The movie Unbroken does not seem to do justice either to Laura Hillenbrand’s book or to Louis Zamperini himself. In…
The science of effortless action
For those who think my previous posts about doing by not-doing have been hokey mysticism, I recommend that you read…
What if you can’t walk on water?
One night one of the beautiful people approached the Buddha with a question. Beautiful, and of indeterminate sexuality. Bhikkhu Bodhi…