Rusty Ring

Reflections of an Old-Timey Hermit

Thursday, 30 October 2025

How To Sleep In The Woods

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(This entry from my ango log is a timely reminder of how difficult life was in the jungle during those first frigid, rainy months. I...
Wednesday, 29 October 2025

WW: Holding up the sky

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(Altocumulus undulatus clouds. The tree in the foreground is a sequoia [Sequoiadendron giganteum] . It's not native here, but intro...
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Wednesday, 22 October 2025

WW: Apple hook season

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(Feral apples are almost always the best-tasting, and you can't beat the price. With all the former farmland around here, the scrumpi...
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Thursday, 16 October 2025

Muslim Dharma

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A lifetime sitting with the central tenet of Islam has led me to accept it. You must submit. Islam means submission in Arabic....
Wednesday, 15 October 2025

WW: Autumn bullfrog

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(Here's another bullfrog [Rana (Lithobates) catesbeiana], rather better lit and differentiated from her background. She's a w...
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Thursday, 9 October 2025

Timely Reminder

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"Strictly speaking, every unenlightened practitioner is mixing their own convictions and belief systems with Buddhism. There is...
Wednesday, 8 October 2025

WW: Poke berries

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(Another rivetting instalment in the saga of the wayfaring poke [Phytolacca americana] that's mysteriously turned up in the neighb...
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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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