birding

I have forgotten most of the bird songs I knew, but it won’t matter at this time of year. It’s no longer breeding season, so there will be a great deal fewer fancy calls from the males. It’s past the Bird Breakfast Time by now anyway. But I need to go out, get outside with Continue reading birding

so you go

And your day stretches out in front of you like a yard of velvet, green with the coming of autumn, and it begs for definition and boundaries. So you give it boundaries, and divide it up into its many possible classifications, each one of them building upon that which has gone before, none striking out Continue reading so you go

the dalai lama

We were in Bloomington, Indiana this morning for the dedication of the Chamtse Long Temple by the Dalai Lama himself. No electronics here in the VIP tent where we get to be up by the stage with a table of snacks at the back. We’re in the front row too. All of the attending clergy Continue reading the dalai lama