A simple song for simple feeling
When Anne Mei asked me to pick a song for our first dance, I first thought of Lyle Lovett’s Walk…
Category: Whoever you are, I love you
Happy Birthday, Grandpa
It took me a week, but I’ve finished the cherry pie that we always had for my Grandfather’s birthday. This…
Baghdad Binge
During these months of living as a somewhat/sometimes hermit, I’ve tried to limit my stream watching to an hour or…
It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.
Anne Mei’s Chinese birth certificate gives her date of birth as July 2, 1996. We have always celebrated her birthday…
Confidence
The other day one of the monks at the Mahamevnawa Monastery in South Brunswick, NJ gave a dhamma talk (aka…
The merely individual, subjective claim to dignity is an empty academic game, or madness. Jean Améry
The NYT interview with Edward Baptist ends with a mention of how upsetting it could be to research the violence…
Calvary
Brendan Gleeson has played many thugs in his career, but at least in his movies with John Michael McDonagh he…
Dignity
Laura Hillenbrand describes Louis Zamperini’s struggle to survive the torments of Japanese POW camps as “stubborn retention” of his dignity. …
Things and who we were, are and become
The committee for my 50th high school reunion sent a You Tube slide show of objects and people from the…
The one and only Anne Mei
Anne Mei turns 18 today. We are heading out shortly for her to get her adult drivers license. When Anne Mei was…