What would that involve?
I had the great fortune of hearing Marilynne Robinson read yesterday morning at the MLA conference here in San Francisco. This exchange from the last pages of Gilead feels so […]
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Put it in the small kitchen––someone will eat it.
Shundo said this of a cookie that was broken and therefore not suitable to serve for tea. It is another exemplar of a category many small kitchen items fall into:
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shirtless
My friend Jennie suggested that I continue exploring the concept of the “offered” in reference to the “shirtless in Hawaii” photos. Here is a stretchy interpretation what constitutes an offering–“tacit
Offered
The second Zen Bodhisattva precept cultivates the practice of taking only what is offered. This is a very robust precept and while most of us do not rob banks, it’s
the open door
I opened the refrigerator, looked in on my almond milk. Yes it was still almond milk. I stood there for a moment longer, during which interval a complex series of