A stern insistence upon courtesy to the living creatures that share our world with us in common to the most diverse religious traditions. “Man as Viceroy” – an essay by Gai Eaton

It was the persimmons clinging to the leafless branches of a modest sized tree that first made me fall in love with this house. Now, 23 years later, I’m still no closer to getting used to their exuberant abundance. early sunset a flock of crows winging homeward https://www.instagram.com/p/CIenCWKJkR

one leaf returns to where it came from . . . San Mateo, 2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/CIeYuxhJbxl/?igshid=1jn6rkvs1r282

It’s Thich Nhat Hanh’s 94th birthday. We spent a good part of it with @sit.walk.listen in Oakland, meditating, walking, and listening for change and for hope. #blacklivesmatter✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #rememberbreonnataylor (at Downtown Oakland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGOUYzEJVab/?igshid=10e0s1o6kbha4

They are cutting down the pine tree on the corner. It was maybe 80’ tall and almost three feet in diameter, perfectly healthy, an old tree full of years. And now it’s mostly wood chips. Today, for the first time in weeks, the sky is blue, and there is more of it than before. I […]

This is the University of Chicago “Great Books of the Western World” collection, edited by Mortimer Adler and published in the 1950s. My grandmother, a single mom on a budget, scrimped and saved for months to buy this for my father when he was quite young, maybe 12, and it shaped the rest of his […]

The word “apocalyptic” is overused. Seriously, it’s just a dark, smoky orange sky. Elsewhere, fires are blazing and firefighters are crawling out of emergency shelters. That’s where the word applies. Here, it’s actually quite peaceful.

10:30am. A layer of smoke overhead so thick it has plunged us back into darkness. The streetlights are on, but no one is out. midday darkness what the raven will tell its children about this day #haiku #haibun #california #smoke https://www.instagram.com/p/CE7K6FzJRwT/?igshid=19jkwj1se9paj

Dios te ama! (at Downtown San Mateo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEj98BcJvk0/?igshid=k3irdo1b7qfk

just this https://www.instagram.com/p/CEX-y-QpQi3/?igshid=1pnm5719mfer

nastywizard: [ID: A newspaper clipping that reads: “The legendary cellist Pablo Casals was asked why he continued to practice at age 90. “Because I think I’m making progress,” He replied. End ID] Everything about this quote is perfect. His humility (“I think”), implication that how you feel about wh

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