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  • Lisa Feldman Barrett and Karen S. Quigley

    ‘Right now, as you read this text, it may seem like your eyes are simply detecting…

  • New Places, New Habits

    Camille, who I have known through Zen Center since my earliest days there, had a lovely…

  • A Chiden Drawer

    Moving is a pretty exhausting business. The movers came on Friday, and were skilful enough to…

  • Dale S. Wright

    ‘It is very easy not to perceive injustices that we ourselves have unknowingly helped to institute.…

  • An Empty House

    On Saturday morning I waved goodbye to Caitlin and Collin, the elderly dog, as she headed…

  • Trust

    ‘“One could tell the story of human civilization as a story of how we learned to…

  • Annie Murphy Paul

    ‘The thing about the outdoors and the way that the human species evolved in the outdoors,…

  • Transitions

    For many years, I have thought of September as more of a month of transition than…

  • Katagiri Roshi

    ‘We use the terms universal effort and individual effort, but actually there is no gap between…

  • Summer Times

    The fog switch has been flipping on and off again – after the previous weekend, we…