My good friend Miles completed the Teton picnic a couple of weeks ago. This was a good outing for the 20 year old....but what made it mind-bending was that he was swimming across Jenny Lake at 3am during the Perseid meteor shower. Imagine swimming in 65° degree water watching not only the shooting stars themselves arc across the sky, but swimming next to their reflection in the water....
Thanks again for subscribing to Meditations. This wraps up the 5th summer of writing. I'm too lazy to count, but perhaps 130? 140 Meditations over that time? None of them are perishable; feel free to look over some of the old ones. To me, it's a
The Ego will protect itself until End of Times, even until the End of our own time. In other words, have we not seen the Ego destroy its physical being to protect itself? And this says nothing of "Other". It's a tall task to live well
Summer's End Still in straw hat and sandals. See you next week -
A bee staggers out of the peony. His most recognized work is Narrow Road to the Deep North...also translated as Journey to the Interior. A Buddhist, Basho was often mistaken for a priest while on the road in the 1600s. But it was the banana tree at his home