Rusty Ring

The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it. Be brave. – Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Photo of young Iranians standing ...

"How badly people want to talk to someone. They cannot make anyone hear them unless they scream, but they seldom really scream. Ins...

It just struck me that I've never posted on these before. Which is remarkable, since they're central to my practice, and indeed m...

As I've mentioned in past years, August has by a series of dependent co-arising become Suicide Month here on Rusty Ring. Along ...

Everyone has a room to air. Everyone has a soul to bare. Everyone has a horn to blare. Everyone has a cause to care. Everyone has a t...

It's been a busy few weeks for the backlist. First, the passing of Robin Williams led to a run on my review of The Zen Path Through D...

I've purposely held off posting about Robin Williams until the tidal wave of pro forma anguish washed past and left us in a place of c...

A year ago this month the suicide of a former student prompted me to get real on polite society's fancy backside and name the actual ...

(See my August 2014 update on Christopher here .) Last week a man the press described as a "hermit" was arrested in Maine. As...

"There are some children who aren't really children at all; they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they...

(See also Suicide: The Cure .) A former student of mine recently committed suicide. He was a truly exceptional young man, still in his c...

I've seen this movie so many times I could play all the parts, in French, English, Crow, and Flathead. The first time, we both had r...

I recently watched this again, for the first time since it came out 'way back in 1998 CE. I liked it then; the cultural them...