Rusty Ring

San Francisco is the capital of Western Zen. The sangha there – the Western one; Asian residents were already practicing for over a centu...

(Abandoned Olympia Beer plant, built in 1906 and dark since Prohibition.)

I've been working on patience for 50 years now. I may never get there. (Photo of Finnish ice fisher courtesy of Wikimedia Commons ...

(North Coast moment: back garden in Olympia, Washington, three blocks from the State Capitol.)

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...

(The fire is a few miles west of this ridge; prevailing winds brought the smoke this way, creating this bloody [and I mean that literal...

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