Monthly Archives: March 2025
MARCH 10, MONDAY
SIMPLE LIVING Buddha found that possessions tied you to life and were a burden and that your attachment things was a basic cause of pain. As a rich prince he searched for enlightenment and when it came, under a bodhi
MARCH 10, MONDAY
SIMPLE LIVING Buddha found that possessions tied you to life and were a burden and that your attachment things was a basic cause of pain. As a rich prince he searched for enlightenment and when it came, under a bodhi
MARCH 9, SUNDAY
A RECKONING You don’t need to wait until you die to receive a reckoning, whether you are going up to heaven or down below. And the platitudes mentioned at your funeral or memorial service, are not a reckoning. They won’t
MARCH 9, SUNDAY
A RECKONING You don’t need to wait until you die to receive a reckoning, whether you are going up to heaven or down below. And the platitudes mentioned at your funeral or memorial service, are not a reckoning. They won’t
MARCH 8, SATURDAY
MASCULINE/FEMININE As I have been accepting that MAGA folks are defending traditional American values in a backlash against the threat to their values by liberal values in a changing world it seems more and more to me that MAGA traditional
MARCH 8, SATURDAY
MASCULINE/FEMININE As I have been accepting that MAGA folks are defending traditional American values in a backlash against the threat to their values by liberal values in a changing world it seems more and more to me that MAGA traditional
MARCH 7, FRIDAY
TRADITIONAL AMERICAN VALUES In my discomfort over the last month I have slowly decided that MAGA people are good people who have values very different from mine, but not, however, much different from most other Americans. I think that they
MARCH 7, FRIDAY
TRADITIONAL AMERICAN VALUES In my discomfort over the last month I have slowly decided that MAGA people are good people who have values very different from mine, but not, however, much different from most other Americans. I think that they
MARCH 6, THURSDAY
CHANGE As I sort out boxes of letters and other memorabilia I am caught in the past and feel both the intensity of good times in the past and feel sadness that all good times are gone. I am realizing
MARCH 6, THURSDAY
CHANGE As I sort out boxes of letters and other memorabilia I am caught in the past and feel both the intensity of good times in the past and feel sadness that all good times are gone. I am realizing
MARCH 2, SUNDAY
ASHEVILLE MARDI GRAS\ Mardi Gras is a Christian celebration at the end of the carnival season before the somber season of Lent, the 40 days of repentance before Easter. I first encountered the carnival season in southern Germany where I
MARCH 2, SUNDAY
ASHEVILLE MARDI GRAS\ Mardi Gras is a Christian celebration at the end of the carnival season before the somber season of Lent, the 40 days of repentance before Easter. I first encountered the carnival season in southern Germany where I
MARCH 1, SATURDAY
CLEANING UP This afternoon Tom and Todd and Susie came by to take the branches downed in my yard during tropical storm Helene down to the edge of the road to be picked up by the trucks with a large
MARCH 1, SATURDAY
CLEANING UP This afternoon Tom and Todd and Susie came by to take the branches downed in my yard during tropical storm Helene down to the edge of the road to be picked up by the trucks with a large
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 