Rusty Ring

Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

Standing in the driveway, staring at the rising moon My neighbor thought I was staring at her. Awkward. – a fellow Zen hermit on Twit...

Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

"All you single people who think you'd be happy if you were married, ask a married person. "All you married people who th...

Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I wish he’d go away When I came home...

Why chatter about enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out. Ryokan ...

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Every hermit needs a rushlight. It's a meditation candle, a trail light, and general illumination where there is no electricity. I mad...

Night filled me with dread. That the world turned black, leaving windows like sheets of obsidian against which my little brother'...

So it's midnight, and I'm meditating on the lower deck when my fat lamp suddenly goes out. With only twenty minutes to go, I decide...