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  • A Day In The Life

    September started off on the right foot in San Francisco, with a warm and sunny holiday…

  • Yosa Buson

    This is happinesscrossing the stream in summercarrying my straw sandals. I thought of this picture for…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Transitions

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

  • Summer Times

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

  • Soft Attention

    Someone who has been attending perhaps my favourite ongoing corporate meditation group forwarded me an article…

  • San Francisco Life

    We read the stories about record-breaking heatwaves, and they are certainly not happening here. This past…