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- Plants Are Sentient Beings
- Separated by a Common Language
- The Biped’s Dilemma
- The Landfillharmonic: an Orchestra Made Out of Trash!
- This is what entropy looks like
- Wisteria
- Satellite Images Show Lake Powell Half Full (or Half Empty)
- Elements: Fire
- Elements: Water (The Ripple Effect)
- Full Cup, Empty Cup
- Letting Go of the Lady
- Other Ways Water is Transformed But Not Lost: A Photo Essay
- Satellite Photos Show Lake Powell Half Full (or Half Empty!)
- The Arrogance of White Caps
- The Cosmic Leak
- The Empty Rowboat
- The Ripple Effect: Conclusions
- What Leonardo da Vinci Knew About Water
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- Oryoki — Just Right!
- Pay attention: who doesn’t want you to know what’s in your food?
- This was handed to me today . . .
- Why I Love PaintNite
- Refuge
- Revised: Bonnard’s Poppies
- Sangha/Practice
- (Spring & Fall 2013) Myotai at the Japan Society
- 4 Bodhisattva Vows — The 16 Precepts
- African Zen — by Filippo Dibari
- Appreciating a Teacher: Happy 2013!
- Compassion!
- Hermitage Heart / Seven Daily Home Services
- Just Sitting . . .
- Maha Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra
- Meditation in a Thunderstorm
- My Creed
- My Original Face: My Personal Zen Koan
- REAL Transformation
- Sitting Frog: The Artist
- Tenacity: What it Takes to Survive This Life
- The Eight Gates of Zen
- The Heart of the Way (2002 Interview with Myotai)
- The Incredible Power of Concentration: Miyoko Shida
- Zen Mountain Monastery / Fire Lotus Zendo: 1996
- The Art of Rengetsu (“Lotus Moon”)
- Writing: Haiku Practice / Poetry
- A New Year’s Gift for You!
- A Tale of Two Cedars
- Christmas Haikus
- City Afternoon
- City Snowstorm — 26 January 2015
- Fallen Leaf
- Half Broken Things
- Limestone
- Mary Cassatt. Two Studies.
- Poem on the Treasury of the Clear-Seeing Eye — Dogen
- Poetry in Motion: Grand Central
- Torn Glove
- When My Mother Died (February 2008)
- Winter Night
- Writing: Prose (Mad Men Revisited)
- Abandon “Hope”?
- At the Rubin Museum
- Does Anyone Remember Cat Clocks?
- Face [the] Music
- Failing Forward
- Father’s Day 2018, NYC
- Fireworks and . . . Doilies?!?
- I’m truly blessed! (Or, Horseville Lives Again!)
- It’s a GUY Thing
- Kill ’em With Kindness!
- Marooned — 8/21/05
- Mother’s Day
- Mother’s Day: PS
- My 5 Christmas Angels!
- Originality in Writing — Part 1
- Originality in Writing — Part 2
- Selling is HARD at my age!
- The Curse Goes On?
- The Social Contract: a Thing of the Past?
- The Suicidal Picture (Dorianne Grey?)
- THRESHOLD JOURNAL WORKSHOP: Myotai Sensei
- Timing
- What Are They Saying?!?!
- Winging It
- Wow! A New Year!
- Writing: Childhood Memories (The “610”)
- Writing: Door County Stories (Summers in the Nineteenth Century)
