Backyard Blog

A couple of weeks ago Alan and I discussed the poems of Muso Soseki, a 13th century Japanese Zen teacher, with the Sky Flower sangha,…

I attended the online sesshin last weekend. We referred to it beforehand as the “short” sesshin since it ended on Sunday rather than Monday, but…

I’m taking a trip to Ireland next month to visit old friends and to allow my daughter, who has never been, to explore her roots.…

I just spent a week visiting family and friends in Ireland, along with my daughter and my daughter-in-law. I was born and grew up in…

Walking heedlessly in a dream A cuckoo’s song summons me I turn my head Who has told me to return? You must not ask me…

A family member said to me: ‘Sanctuary cities exist to frustrate the attempts of the federal government to apprehend violent criminals who are not US…