Yesterday, the service I used to post my blog was down. In the nearly 20 years I have posted every day, I have missed posting only thrice. All due to TYPEPAD's service being unobtainable due to technical issues. Hence, today,…

Guess where I am going tomorrow? and if you do I will send you a postcard when I am there.   Tree of Life Nothing to do with where I am going. Often I walk by. It looks better in…

Photos via Sacha’s friend Nelson.

  Summer's end, and when it does, please take the heat with you. It has been too hot this summer. Though it feels like this might become our new normal.    

I wrote this on my blog in 2006                                   When I lived in a monastery, the Abbot asked who knew how to cut hair. I raised my hand; I…