Rusty Ring

(From the monks' graveyard. Evidently, Brother Lawrence also worshipped at the altar of the Seahawks.) Appearing also on My C...

Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

I augur this the right moment to mention my regret at the passing of graveyards, which ironic development has left my society impover...

(This is the resting place of the first US settler in Thurston County, Washington, one George Bush. No, not that George Bush. This on...

One day Nasrudin was walking down a country road when he saw a group of horsemen riding toward him at great speed. Fearing bandits,...

(Brothers' cemetery in the forest behind the Benedictine monastery in my home town. One of my favourite places since childhood....

(Eight-strand kongo kumihimo in funerary white, red, and black on a joss coin ring. Hung in a stand of bamboo.)

(The plaque below lays out the basics of the story. This American chestnut [Castanea dentata] is thought to be the largest, and poss...

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...

The Jewish community in the North Coast town where I grew up kept a low profile; though it gave us a few influential pioneers, I never ...

(Glasses put down on the way back in from the beach, before a bundle of Chinese coins for making cemetery fudos ; reflection of me in th...