Tiny Shrines 13 Cups: A book by A’court Bason ~ To open this book is to step through a threshold into a world of moon counting, tea leaves brewing, translucent colors, and kind stars. Printed in a small quantity and using local resources, it’s a handwritten work that includes poetry, journal entries, I Ching configurations, […]
The following are the answers to yesterday’s “Liar Liar Pants on Fire” Challenge: 1. I have hitchhiked before. We called it “thumbing.” It was the late 1970s, and I was probably inspired by the lyrics of the song Me and Bobby Mcgee… Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained…It rode us all the […]
Liar Liar Pants on Fire returns to Loose Leaf. Below are 4 things about me, one of which is a lie. Can you pick out the lie? Winners will be posted. 1. I’ve hitchhiked before. 2. I’ve rode in a helicopter before. 3. I have a pair of ruby red slippers like Dorothy’s. 4. I’ve […]
“Drop by drop we cry a river of tears and the earth is washed with our love.” ~ Jan Seivers Mahon, reader of the “Jim and Dan Stories.” I received an email recently from a subscriber of the Museletter, the monthly community forum that I co-edit. She was thanking me for my written contributions that […]
1. Last week when I drove to Christiansburg I had to slam on the brakes on Route 8 because I was looking at this woman on the sidewalk whose purple jacket caught my eye, which made me think maybe I should have a bumper sticker that says, “I Brake for Purple.” 2. On another occasion […]
Break into the peace within…hold your attention in silence…and in the world outside…you will ably master the ten thousand things… ~ Lao Tzu This is my Satsang Group. We meet once a week to study the 8 point meditation program as taught by Sri Eknath Eswaran. All of us mediate for at least 30 […]
AKA Girl Talk: If the weather is nice on a Sunday, I get together with neighborhood girlfriends and go for a walk. Occasionally our conversations get wild, and sometimes the barking dogs we pass seem less than tame. Other than that, our walks are mostly relaxing. The two friends I walked with this past Sunday […]
“The challenge is to do the thing you have to do because you’re in love with it and can’t do anything else. Not because you want to become famous or rich, but because you will be unhappy if you can’t do it.” – Warren MacKenzie The following conversation took place over the phone as my […]
This is the front window of my Asheville potter son’s warehouse studio/remodeled living space. I wonder how many web surfers searching for a certain outlawed herbal remedy will come to my site and be disappointed today?
This past November, inspired by an idea at Writing from the Hip, I posted excerpts and links to my Top Ten blog posts taken from my first 6 months of blogging. I enjoyed the process of picking out my favorites and re-posting them, especially considering that in the first few months of blogging I didn’t […]
I saw a movie recently that I can’t get out of my mind. Not because it was a great movie or because of the filming, soundtrack, or special effects. It was low budget, filmed with a hand held camera, and described by its writer/director as an autobiographical confessional documentary-type of film. I enjoyed the “director’s […]
1. My son, Josh, knows how much I love lingo. When visiting him in Asheville, I take notes when he and his friends talk because I love to record their hip use of language. He got me some slang flashcards for Christmas. The first thing we did with them was test me to find out […]
