breaking with recent routine i was there to give water around 11 am instead of at the end of the day.   I went about it all and then sat while the hose seeped water into the stressed Fig.   There was a SUDDeNESS…. a FLOCK,  a literal FLOCK of the small grey birds….more than 20….everywhere over…

she says it's time for the second sleep over. Jenny brought me these the first winter i was here….the first month i was here.    I put them in the high cupboards in that back room. We have replaced those huge battery charger boxes one by one and now have a kind that are about …

i was at her house today…to do laundry.   Got a load going and she wanted me to come into her room.  She was watching some thing on her TV about bald eagles.   Suddenly she got up and rummaged in one of  her storage bins.   Out came this  "tablet".  She handed it to me and said….can…

  quiet      simple     just what it is    changing     forward    alive    only as is     maybe yes, maybe no    either   Breathing  

Lassen Volcanic National Park the Milky Way  high and so beyond the Dixie Fire  2021

fence side of B Garden at Sun set

so even before i knew,  i knew.     and i knew i knew because on Thursday,  of course.   On Being is with Sharon Salzberg…the title of the episode….The Healing is in the Return. For maybe 40 years,  my life has grown out from a ground of Buddhist Practice.   Learning as much as i can,  as…

what to say? i woke,  made tea,  sat down and looked out the Morning Window.   Lo and Behold.  Same View as yesterday,  but                              different. I don't know the correct terminology for these Oaks.   There are multiple trunks of the same Tree. …