Rusty Ring

This is Nicola White, my favourite mudlark. (Yes, I have a favourite mudlark. I also have other mudlarks, who, while not my favourite mud...

This is a preaching Buddha (not to be confused with a teaching Buddha ). As you can see, he's enumerating something on his fing...

A few weeks ago a friend directed me to Everything Doesn't Happen For A Reason , by Tim Lawrence. It's attracted an enthusiasti...

(The following is a passage from Rough Around the Edges , a manuscript I began 20 years ago. Though my Zen practice was still about si...

( 100-year model; square ring, representing the Four Noble Truths, i.e. the four walls of the eremitical monastery.)

I recently re-read a journal I kept in January 2003, during the period of my divorce. I was struck by the events and emotions it recorded...

I made this fistful of fudos for a friend's daughter who just graduated from high school. Graduation is an odd rite; we tell young p...

This is the second-easiest braid there is, and one of three I use to make hundred-year fudos . The flat four-strand shoelace braid is more...

A trio of large fudos await assignment by the woodstove Making and hanging fudos is part of my practice. Regulars will have noted photos...