Monthly Archives: January 2022

JANUARY 29, SATURDAY (ACTUALLY SUNDAY)

SNOW One last look at the beautiful snowfall left from yesterday. I thought global warming was taking us into the sun belt. There was almost no snow last year but this year we have had snow three weekends in a

JANUARY 29, SATURDAY (ACTUALLY SUNDAY)

SNOW One last look at the beautiful snowfall left from yesterday. I thought global warming was taking us into the sun belt. There was almost no snow last year but this year we have had snow three weekends in a

JANUARY 28, FRIDAY (ACTUALLY SATURDAY)

SNOW Today, Saturday, New York and Massachusetts are set to have a blizzard and we were waiting last night expectantly for the worst to happen to them. Jim Cantore would be there with the blizzard almost whiting him out. This

JANUARY 28, FRIDAY (ACTUALLY SATURDAY)

SNOW Today, Saturday, New York and Massachusetts are set to have a blizzard and we were waiting last night expectantly for the worst to happen to them. Jim Cantore would be there with the blizzard almost whiting him out. This

JANUARY 27, THURSDAY

THE GOTT FAMILY Last night I met the Gott family. The grown up children, Tim and Susi, had been students at Warren Wilson College and I knew of them but never had them in class. And Peter Gott had built

JANUARY 27, THURSDAY

THE GOTT FAMILY Last night I met the Gott family. The grown up children, Tim and Susi, had been students at Warren Wilson College and I knew of them but never had them in class. And Peter Gott had built

JANUARY 26, WEDNESDAY

BARCELONA, LA RAMBLAS 2015 Today would have been my first day wandering Barcelona for eight days before flying to Marrakech and Essouria, Morocco. I came within an inch of flying yesterday. If I had been informed that my ticket wouldn’t

JANUARY 26, WEDNESDAY

BARCELONA, LA RAMBLAS 2015 Today would have been my first day wandering Barcelona for eight days before flying to Marrakech and Essouria, Morocco. I came within an inch of flying yesterday. If I had been informed that my ticket wouldn’t

JANUARY 25, TUESDAY

CONCENTRATION Long ago I saw a film on Buddhism, I forget the name, I think it was on PBS, but what I remember most distinctly is a section in which a Buddhist monk did a kind of walking meditation in

JANUARY 25, TUESDAY

CONCENTRATION Long ago I saw a film on Buddhism, I forget the name, I think it was on PBS, but what I remember most distinctly is a section in which a Buddhist monk did a kind of walking meditation in

JANUARY 24, MONDAY

SRI SOMESVARA TEMPLE, MOUNT SOMA, BUNCOMBE COUNTY Today Todd, Susie and I went in search of the Shiva temple that we had heard about from a variety of people in Greensboro and an Indian gas station attendant on the way

JANUARY 24, MONDAY

SRI SOMESVARA TEMPLE, MOUNT SOMA, BUNCOMBE COUNTY Today Todd, Susie and I went in search of the Shiva temple that we had heard about from a variety of people in Greensboro and an Indian gas station attendant on the way

JANUARY 23, SUNDAY

REMEMBERING INDIA Almost every second year from 1970 on I have made a trip to India with a Warren Wilson College student or staff group or sometimes others. Since I retired in 2007 I have gone every other year with

JANUARY 23, SUNDAY

REMEMBERING INDIA Almost every second year from 1970 on I have made a trip to India with a Warren Wilson College student or staff group or sometimes others. Since I retired in 2007 I have gone every other year with

JANUARY 22, SATURDAY

INDIVIDUALISM AND LONELINESS I want to write a short post about loneliness and togetherness. The very odd thing for me is that very often when we, as Americans, are constantly with people we have a great need to be alone.

JANUARY 22, SATURDAY

INDIVIDUALISM AND LONELINESS I want to write a short post about loneliness and togetherness. The very odd thing for me is that very often when we, as Americans, are constantly with people we have a great need to be alone.

JANUARY 21, FRIDAY

DUKKHA, NOT A GOOD FIT When Joseph Goldstein defined Dukkha, suffering, in his Buddhist podcast whether I mentioned a couple of days ago I had a pretty good idea of what he was talking about. I have a sense of

JANUARY 21, FRIDAY

DUKKHA, NOT A GOOD FIT When Joseph Goldstein defined Dukkha, suffering, in his Buddhist podcast whether I mentioned a couple of days ago I had a pretty good idea of what he was talking about. I have a sense of

JANUARY 20, THURSDAY

WHO AM I? Joseph Goldstein‘s podcast on Dukkha got me to thinking. He said that under the Bo tree Buddha realized that everything is transient and that attachement to people and objects can only bring Dukkha, sometimes called suffering. He

JANUARY 20, THURSDAY

WHO AM I? Joseph Goldstein‘s podcast on Dukkha got me to thinking. He said that under the Bo tree Buddha realized that everything is transient and that attachement to people and objects can only bring Dukkha, sometimes called suffering. He