These days I am working on a novel. I have been for awhile now. I intended to write about the writer's process and the process of meditation coinciding. Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down The Bones, and a Zen Buddist practitioner, writes some humorous and inspirational insights about the two of these processes together that I am now gaining insight into myself. But, I just can't write about that today.



There is an aching in my… Continue

These days I am working on a novel. I have been for awhile now. I intended to write about the writer's process and the process of meditation coinciding. Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down The Bones, and a Zen Buddist practitioner, writes some humorous and inspirational insights about the two of these processes together that I am now gaining insight into myself. But, I just can't write about that today.



There is an aching in my heart… Continue

Charter of the International Military Tribunal (From the Nuremberg trials )(http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/NurembergIndictments.html#Charter)

August 8, 1945

(Selected Articles)

ARTICLE 1

In pursuance of the Agreement signed on the 8th day of August 1945 by the Government of the United States of America, the Provisional Government of the French Republic, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Government… Continue

Today has already been eventful. After prayer and meditation this morning and a final (for now) blast of mental affliction stamped into my private, hand-written, home journal, I walked to the convenience store just down the street, because now I want to read from library books I have borrowed and am out of coffee. Coffee still goes with morning reading after prayer and meditation for this sentient being. What will become of this luscious, lecherous habit...



I've got my green cloth,… Continue

Last night I listened to a broadcast of the Pennsylvania primary results via NPR on my antiquated but still useful radio. I have purposely not watched television for about four months, except for an occasional stop at a convenience store where Fox News is broadcasting while the cashier is tallying my groceries and bagging them. (Does Fox News appear at nearly all Dunkin' Donuts and convenience stores where you live, too?)



I felt accosted by the blasting of yellow broadcast journalism… Continue