Welcome. This is a blog chronicling a four year period from 2006-2009 during which I underwent what is commonly referred to as a midli...

. Reality is not a thought. Reality is not what you think. Reality is not what you can think. Reality is what is immediately experienced...

I ran across this photo while searching for something else and was impressed by the quality of the photo itself, as well as the complete abs...

Early this year when I was painting in Kathmandu a French film maker came to art school for a few days to shoot for a documentary. This ev...

. Somewhere between Fukuoka and Osaka. #

Soon after publishing my wistful rainy morning post, a breeze from long ago blew through my in-box. It was the organizer of this year'...

. This morning I took my coffee on the veranda and watched the dark clouds roll over. The cicadas were chirping. A crane flew past, anglin...

. The Kyoto Vipassana Center was a veritable hotel. There was soap in the bathroom, detergent for washing clothes (by hand in a bucket), a s...

. This week I've been saying farewell to the people I meet on my daily rounds through the neighborhood, as well as a few friends and col...

. My flight details came in yesterday. I was initially scheduled to fly Asiana to Seoul and then Emirates to Dubai, but I put in a friendly...