Rusty Ring

A Substack meditation on the emotional lives of men has been making the rounds. Fruit of Drunk Wisconsin , whose timeline is one of t...

(Photo taken during my outbacking trek through the Columbia Basin last summer. Mt. Rainier in the distance. Open in a new tab to see it ...

"Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them." Dōgen

(Mt. Rainier, icon of much of the Puget Sound Basin.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

True nature; It is on this mountain. Because of the heavy mist, the exact location is unknown. – An Ancestor's commentary on the...

(Open in a new tab for a better view.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

the mountain hermit's fire is rising winter rain Issa (Photo courtesy of Edal Anton Lefterov and Wikimedia Commons.)

( Sorbus sitchensis . AKA rowan.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

spring breeze... packed with people the mountain temple Issa (Photo courtesy of Maria Yamaguchi and Wikimedia Commons.)

I recently happened upon an interesting moment in Season 6, Episode 4, of Gimlet Media's Startup podcast. (Transcript here ; downloa...

July is happening again, and that means another rack of Rusty Ring rock groups is ready for delivery, in no particular order, with no i...

I always massage a broken heart with danger. Once in college, I memorialised a girlfriend's abrupt adieu by riding my bike a hundred m...

In Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits , Bill Porter writes:    "Throughout Chinese history, there    have always bee...

I started the engine and continued the climb to Banker Pass. In the far distance the rugged peaks rounded, and a suspicion of sage on...

Day 37. So I'm back. It's taking some time to recalibrate to the (by turns ...

UPDATE (27 September 2012): My review of Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits , the book that inspired this film, can be fo...