Rusty Ring

Back in 2023 I wrote a post about another post I wrote in 2015 on the topic of forgiveness. As a prime example, I referred to the cas...

I never get used to the fact that there's exactly one religion on this planet. Or humanity's eternal frantic protest that there...

Though this seems at first glance avant-garde sculpture, in real life it's the famous one-legged torii of Nagasaki. You can fil...

This video is both brief and necessary. We live in apocalyptic times. We're not the first; there have been many other apocalypti...

'Way back in March of 2012 CE (how strange to have such a deep vault) I reviewed Zen at War , Brian Daizen Victoria's exposé o...

(Model 26003a flameproof telegraph key. Same one used in the radio rooms of American merchant and military vessels during WWII. Stil...

In Auntie's War: The BBC during the Second World War , Edward Stourton drops a bombshell. He's talking about how radio – the...

Some time ago I surfed into What You Need to Know about Mindfulness Meditation , an article made available to military personnel (an...

“I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no person should witness: gas chambers built by learned engineers. Children p...

(Found this on the cellar floor beneath my grandfather's house. It's a 1943 steel penny. [Here magnetically stuck to the refri...

We need hermits. OK, it's a self-serving point. But trust me: leave it to the priests and temples alone, and they'll botch this...

Once upon a time a mighty nation considered itself the holiest, most righteous in history. The ruling class especially leaned heavily ...

(This is one of my most popular bylines. It's a bit dated now; anybody else remember that "Coffee Achievers" ad campaign, wh...