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Welcome to the age of fluency without literacy. n.b. I am not going to use AI to write this article, at all, no proofreading, nothing,…

“We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions…

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated," ~ Mark Twain (Maybe) Notwithstanding the clever witticism of dubious provenance that has been attributed to Mark…

I had this thought in the shower today: the speed that one can forgive is the yardstick for spiritual progress. Forgiveness for those who have…

 I've been paying attention to the stock market a little bit. Purely as an amateur. I have been talking to friends and famiy about how…

ireland, poetry and the world at large So just some updates about my life. If you are here there have been some changes since April…

It's time to unplug. I have mostly completed this task myself, and I would encourage anyone else to experiment with this. For all the life-hacking…

it's been a minute since i have written, i hope you are doing well. i'll have more to write soon, i've got a lot going…

consider this an invitation to look at yourself a little bit differently. let's assume, just for a moment: that you are already enough. that you…

Thanksgiving is a strange holiday. Aside from two holidays in the calendar year, I never really have a hankering for turkey and mashed potatoes. (Pie,…

This is what I was talking about, the dual curse. Curse one: I want. Curse two: I get what I want. Of course, Oscar Wilde…

"We are all prisoners but some of us are in cells with windows and some without." ― Kahlil Gibran In the Before Covid times I…

Once again, Kraken coming in hot with another great quote in their daily newsletter: "The Daily Hash": I totally get that. People put a lot…

What, you may be asking yourself, is/are "kubernetes" aka "k8s"? Here are things it sounds like, but it isn't: No, Kuberenetes, which allegedly means "helmsman"…

I subscribe to a daily newsletter. It's usually pretty obscure tech stuff about blockchain, etc. But they have quotes. I like their quote person, they…

Gentle reader: Rarely, you might have doubts about whether or not You matter. Sometimes, you think all of this trouble is because of you, and…

Here it is, the survey, what to do with the offspring? Best case scenario: I would like to have everyone agree on something so we…

It was pretty dicey there for a little bit. The pandemic is still raging in some parts of the world, but it looks like it…

I was looking through the years and years of stuff I've writing under the aegis of "blogging". Things have become mundane. For example, no more…

I, like many others I'm sure, have lately been dabbling in cryptocurrency. Just some basic minor league stuff, the amount that you wind find in…

golly.. someobdy’s website is lookin’ fancy! *What with the new design? Look there is an image, there is an attempt at type-setting. * I realized…

Every week, I am lucky enough to get to spend at 7200 seconds in pure happiness. These moments are aways the highlight of my week.

. sitting in cool grass orange moon slowly rises nothing is missing Posted on Oct 12

This is an oldie, but a goodie. I strung this up in my former backyard, and walked on it. Sorta. 😁

what we normally don't think about when we think about love Normally my shower thoughts are not that interesting. I am either planning a scenario…

1000 words Monkey and the Moon Reflection by Ogata Gekko Ca 1900 - 1910 Borrowed with love from ukiyo-e.org

"maybe i'm wrong?" If I had to pick the superpower that I am currently closest to possessing, it would be this: The ability to say…

so much is happening My productivity is shot. I am trying to meditate a more and to be present, but the fact is -- I really want…

nothing / everything I went for a walk today and stopped on a small wooden bridge over a creek. Ever since the flood I have…

stepping back in, gingerly After having taken a long break from social media, it is really interesting to dip my toe back into the water.

40 feet and counting This is a 40 foot slackline. My record right now is 83 feet. IMG_0220T from Billy Koplitz on Vimeo. Posted on…

build things; watch them crumble The house I was living in flooded on Monday, July 8. It was a really incredible storm. It felt like…

swm iso group of people sitting around real still [This is going to be brief, because I have a bunch of stuff I'm putting off…

meditation you can sink your teeth into Why does it feel like meditation is so much more rewarding when you have a challenging moment in…

and everything i know is wrong I had the pleasure of attending an online seminar last weekend with Pema Chödrön. She is pretty incredible. You…

life is beautiful I was looking out my window and saw a rabbit that had been hanging around my house. She was obviously a female…

what am i doing? The power went out yesterday. It has happened a couple of times in the past few days. It's not a huge…

finding nothing missing This is a challenging time. Even though it safe to say that while we are all going through things all the time. The past few weeks…

so great. I just came back from a 3 hour zazenkai with the group at the Zen Center. It was intense! I really liked it.

À la recherche du temps perdu Last night I was at a meeting, sitting there for 90 minutes and listening. I kept thinking about how…

look at the path between the trees Today was a bit rough. First of all, I got up super-early to go sit at the Zen…

attention means attention. I've been trying to pay attention, and I've noticed a few things: There is no point to what I am writing. This…

here we go again. This is the beginning of a new blog. I don’t have a whole lot of stuff to write about, but when…