Rusty Ring

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

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...

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

I talk a lot about gratitude on this channel. It's a habit that has two not-very-subtle origins: 1. Gratitude is the wheel of mo...

I'd been a hermit monk for 5 years when I heard on my truck radio that after the news the host would speak with a US Army chaplain j...

If you don't know John Gorka, you should know John Gorka. Few artists sing the human heart like John. A number of his songs s...

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...

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

This week I encountered a piece of apparent fluff from The Stranger , Seattle's edgier (or maybe just more sophomoric) alternative n...

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...

Some time ago I had the good fortune to spend a month in Guatemala. While in the ancient capital I visited the tomb of Hermano Pedro ...

Try this: Name the virtue that's the basis of all human morality. And now this: Which fundamental virtue is seldom disc...

We're hearing a lot these days about patriotism and national greatness and ideological purity and economic theory and cold dead fing...

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...

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'm not sure he'd appreciate the label, but Claude AnShin Thomas is the most prominent hermit of our generation. Though an orda...

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...