I think there must have been something that led up to this, some forgotten back-story, as they call it, since I woke with Elvis Presley’s sh...

He struts ahead pompously, chest thrust forward, head nodding, nervous, eyes alert for danger, past our house. A touch of self-importance t...

Meditation done, I sit here wondering where today will take me. Where will it take you? and... O.J.'s Karma So we're back there agai...

...make good neighbors," wrote Robert Frost, famously, in his poem, " Mending Wall ." Or walls, or gates, or hedges. Frost ...

Last night, Saturday, Ellie and I indulged in an evening of arias from grand opera at the Laguna Beach "Pageant of the Masters" ou...

Yes, I'm back here in Los Angeles--at least for one night. Then on, this morning, to our Laguna Beach retreat, where we plan to spend t...

Dawn Our twelfth floor hotel balcony: a pink dawn. Down below us, a score of seagulls drift and scream incessantly. Below them, a screech of...

I saw, just now the repeat of an old televison interview with Charles Kuralt & the late Lady Bird Johnson on the subject of her beloved ...

A Sadness There is a sadness greeting someone I will never know. He stands on the far side of the Danube, fishing, early morning in dark shi...

They showed it on television, on their tour of a commercial aircraft factory, the “aging suit”—invented to show their twenty- and thirty-som...

I saw the outtakes of your tapes— the ones you took time out to mail between shooting sprees. You had killed two already and would soon kill...

I'm trying to remember the exact phrase from yesterday's sangha, our Sunday sitting group. Than Geoff, our teacher, has this idea f...

Remember that little prick in the bathtub, all those years ago? Your cousin's? Donald's? It was all wet and shiny, and he popped i...

4:53 AM. Above the ceaseless night hum of the city, a siren's shrill, distant; then another, closer. I lie here thinking: some person...

About halfway through "BABEL" I wondered what I was doing there. By the time the film ended, I understood why I had stayed. It...

(Un)Intentional Haikus by Thanissaro Bhikkhu as written down by Peter Clothier January 28, 2007 the fear: more dangerous than the tiger * le...