Rusty Ring

(That's me in my cardigan on Bodhisattva Day 2014. This year Bodhisattva Day falls on Thursday – i.e., tomorrow. For information on t...

They warn you not to meet your heroes, to leave them unknown quantities, to avoid disappointment. But have you considered this: ...

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ...

"Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, 'Would an idiot do that?', and if they would, I do not do that thing....

In 2015 I uploaded a post entitled Forgiveness . It's about forgiveness. Last year, after almost a decade of being roundly ignored...

(The world is still talking about the 40+ degree weather we on the North Coast experienced this week. I've lived places where that ...

"People who don’t have a sense of shame have no future." Thích Nhất Hạnh ( The Cloak of Conscience courtesy...

I was difficult when I was younger. Part of me would like to go back and face some of those challenges and circumstances again, ex...

An old friend last week posted a link to The Cruelty of Call-Out Culture: How Not To Do Social Change , David Brook's timely and inc...

"[Kitano] was thin and not in good health, but Shunryu was mesmerised by the way he would lay out his bowing cloth and lower hi...

"And then they found me guilty." I've been meaning to post on this found teisho since I launched Rusty Ring, away bac...

It's happening, droogies! This Tuesday the time comes again to emulate Mr. Rogers and throw down for Bodhisattva Day . So: AL...

Asleep on my lap in bed. Three days ago I had the sad duty of accompanying my mother's cat out of this life. A cherished family mem...

It's that time of year again, friends. Time to get out your cardigan and represent for cool-headed compassion. This Bodhisattva Da...

Once, when I was in Grade 2, my teacher had all of us save our milk carton from lunch. Afterward we folded it into a flower pot, filled i...

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

Get out your cardigans, brother's and sisters! Bodhisattva Day 2016 promises to be a thunderous display of quiet wooly determinati...

To commemorate this New Year's Day 2015 I offer a meditation on the passage of time. My brother's poetry here is so powerful...

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...

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...