Rusty Ring

This unlikely 1967 Arlo Guthrie classic has become a Thanksgiving ritual for American radio stations, many of which spin it on that day....

Here's insight we can use. In this short meditation, Rusty Ring favourite Peter Mayer sums up the lesson we all should have l...

I saw this film when it was new, beside a beautiful young woman with whom I did not yet realise I was in love. She was also a German...

I had never heard of this alt hymn, or the artists who built it, or even the television series that launched it, before I first heard i...

Though it's generally unknown to Western Buddhists, Russia is one of the formative homelands of our religion. Not only has Buddhis...

New Year's is upon us again, and as usual I'm in a reflective mood. This time I've got the Cowboys Fringants' Ici-bas ru...

In keeping with our general July theme ("what the heck") here on the Ring, today I'm sharing something awesome, just...

So it's July again, the month when the Internet takes a vacation and I can post stuff that's just cool and not necessarily abou...

( Update, 13 October 2025: The YouTube file I originally embedded here has gone 404, but I found this one to replace it. Though I have...

Here's a good meditation for sojourners my age. Here at the crossroads of life, when most of ours is behind us, and what we have ...

"Arts degrees are awesome. They help you find meaning where there is none. And let me assure you, there is none." So says Tim...

Here's another great example of a video that adds striking dimension to the song it accompanies. Not that it isn't fine as it is; ...

I've loved this song for years but only recently searched out the video, which adds incisive context to the lyrics. It's a detai...

It's about time I shared a John Prine song. The guy's catalogue is replete with complex, insightful meditations on th...

Three weeks ago I wrote about the tendency in Western Zen to downplay the ongoing role of Korea in the development and direction of o...

If you've ever been to a Zen centre or monastery, you will immediately recognise this man's genius. What you're seeing...

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 have so been there .)

As far as I can tell David's a Christian, so I was surprised to hear a call-out to us in this song. But he's a powerful writer...

When I first heard this on Радио Русский Рок I was astonished how similar Пикник ("Picnic") sounds to Malicorne . As I lis...