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I go to Joe’s to pick up more tea, which I have purchased with real money this time because I can’t keep up with the barter this week. Kaiya is there, the new apprentice for the growing season. [...]

I decide that if I really want to go to Ireland for two weeks, I can do that anytime. Or as Tia (henceforth going by her real name, Vic) put it: You can buy a plane ticket to Ireland a lot easier [...]

I enter full freak out mode. I have been accepted into all six MFA programs that I applied for. I am overjoyed and overwhelmed. I rule out Naropa. I rule out Goddard. I spend an hour dealing with [...]

I have a confession. I have not been chopping wood every Tuesday morning this winter, as promised. In January, I did a pretty good job keeping up with my commitment. But as my tea prescriptions [...]

“How many lifetimes have you been practicing the dharma?” asks a wiry man from Maryland as I plop down in the seat next to him. It is day three of the Mahamudra intensive and we are formally done [...]

It is a delightful thing, to stare at cherry tree blossoms in the middle of a blizzard, to see the likeness of the petals and the snowflakes, to watch spring and winter tease each other with [...]

There will be no post tonight, the retreat is heavy in my heart and mind and I prefer to keep it that way while I can.

Tonight marks the beginning of an extended weekend retreat in Mahamudra teachings at the meditation center. In BigCity, NC I had dinner with one of our sangha’s favorite teachers, Jay, who [...]

And how when I turned my head this morning to back the car out of the driveway, I caught a glimpse of a brilliant purple crocus blooming atop a pile of rusty oak leaves. And how sometimes there [...]

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