Answers are easier to come by than chances but after one by one they close and drop carpeting the ground with faded color and you’ve pushed ...

It's not a glorious way to enter the final years of one's life but so it goes and I'm grateful for it. Because my cancer is so w...

One of my friend Lawrence's favorite stories was how his martial arts teacher could shout TEST COMING and always manage to rattle the c...

I'm here to learn, not teach. If I want it to be the way it was, I will never understand the way it is.

For now, this is my/our last day in Portugal. Tomorrow at 03h I will go to the airport for my flight to the US. "Valeu a pena? Tudo val...

They say "the pen is mightier than the sword". True, but not true enough. The pen is a sword, the sword which is sharpened only w...

  讼 Hexagram 6 Sung - Conflict Changing lines /Line Three He stands on his integrity, no matter what ill winds may blast him. Stand or fall,...

Note to self There is a bird here on Portugal's Atlantic coast I only hear sing as midnight approaches. I love the song. I picked the so...

I just rediscovered this collection of quotes my daughter-in-law sent earlier on of things my grandsons have said and am posting them here s...

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying the longest day of year 2021 north of the equator was two days late. I am late writing about it, ...

Chiang Mai - Thailand remains of offerings from a Spirit House Portugal. Off shore spring wind howling around the building. Going though som...

Tao Te Ching... verse for today (*): 48 In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Tao, ...

The message was sent  51 years ago. I received it tonight. Cast Hexagram     谦   #15 - Ch'ien - Modesty THE IMAGE Within the earth...

Note from the future

March 28, Worm Moon might not the happiest day if you're the worm. If you're a robin it might be a great day. For the rest of us . ....

"Others have trodden this Path before you, overcoming the same obstacles facing you now, and making crucial decisions at the same cross...

Note to self....

#1: Stop arguing. #2: Silence is compliance. #3: Blend these and change the narrative.

We began isolating on March 14. Before that, we half-assed it for a couple of weeks but on the 18th it got real. That's when the Portugu...

Day and night have become a one-sided coin as we begin our fourth week in isolation. It matters less and less which it is. The neighborhood...