Quote of the day: ““There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” ― Wendell Berry I am in Hawaii staying at Akiko’s Buddhist Bed and Breakfast 15 miles north of Hilo on the Big Island. It rains a lot on this side of the island and much Read more…
Quote of the day: ““Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” ― Roger Miller I can safely say that the drought in the Hilo area has ended. It started raining last Saturday afternoon. It has rained much of the days and nights since then (today is Friday, so almost Read more…
Quote of the day: “Happiness and sex are highly overrated!” — Akiko’s morning wisdom of the day, said with a huge laugh! One of the things that has surprised me about Hawaii is the number of small subsistence farms there are. Many are run by people who have come here to take Read more…
Quote of the day: “These days it is hard for me to find any suffering that I do not inflict on myself, over and over, any problem that isn’t born of my own fear and brittle judgment, again and again, any impossibility that doesn’t arise from my own parsimonious view: Read more…
Quote of the day: “Don’t push the river, it flows by itself.” Note: I wrote this post Friday but didn’t post until Saturday. Nights are long when I wake up every hour because of pain. In the past, when I had nights like this, I would get uptight and upset thinking Read more…