Contrary to popular belief

Life is simple

The wonder of a reality

You would expect that after half a century of revelation there is limited room for enlightenment. I kind of expected that some things should become self-evident, but apparently not. At least not in my experience. Although I have become accustomed to expecting it in every journey I share in serendipity, more so now than before I […]

Zen and dirty dishes

Washing the dishes is like therapy, and difficult patient that I am, I try to evade it for as long as I can stand the ever growing reality of dirty dishes. But there is nothing that creeps up on you quite like something you are trying to ignore. Dirty dishes is no exception, and my […]

Politics and tea

To me, drinking tea should be a Zen experience, an opportunity to pause and reflect, to connect and commune, to tune out the rote of daily living with a ritual of sustenance and revival. And half of the human race agree that drinking tea should be a time of inner peace and harmony. A growing opinion that […]