Rusty Ring

Reflections of an Old-Timey Hermit

Thursday, 31 July 2025

The Grandfather Paradox

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This graphic illustrates the grandfather paradox, a secular koan demonstrating the inability of the human mind to grasp reality. A...
Wednesday, 30 July 2025

WW: Collapsed apple tree

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(This 20-odd year apple met its end last week, a victim of its own success. In the late 20th century, varieties such as these, bearing he...
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Thursday, 24 July 2025

Rock Groups 2025

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So it's July again, when Internet readership drops off sharply and strange things happen on this blog while no-one's looking....
Wednesday, 23 July 2025

WW: Raising bread

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(As I recently pointed out , at high summer you can often raise bread dough outdoors in the shade. An 80 to 95-degree day ought to do it...
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Thursday, 17 July 2025

What Is Practice?

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What is zazen? Just sitting. What is practice? Just doing. What for? For nothing. Just do it. Practice the dharma for...
Wednesday, 16 July 2025

WW: Highest dome on the continent

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(At 287 feet, the vault over the Washington State Capitol Building in Olympia is the highest free-standing masonry dome in North Americ...
Thursday, 10 July 2025

Hermitcraft: Hermit Bread, Case 2.

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'Way back in the first weeks of this blog I posted on the sourdough bread that's been part of my monastic practice since b...
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I devoted my life to Zen practice many years ago. "That which does not kill me, makes me kinder."
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