Category diamond days

Friends dubbed me Ricochet in college because of my personality. I was learning a lot about Eastern Religions and Buddhism at the time and decided that of course they were thinking of the Sutras related to the Net of Indra.

I still love thinking about the net of diamonds and the flickering and ricochets of light and thoughts.

https://tricycle.org/article/refuge-indras-net/

https://buddhism-thewayofemptiness.blog.nomagic.uk/hua-yen-the-jewel-net-of-indra/

https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/saf/networks/networking-networkers/indras-net.html

Nettles and the Sting of Spring

Spring fever is here, along with a reminder about one of our most valuable allies- Vitamin nettle~~ Urtica dioica I remember hearing about a hay bale on a friends property acting as the perfect accidental host for a thriving nettle…

20 years on/20 years off

social meeds reflections, boundaries, free palestine In the Spring of 2005 my friend and I essentially locked ourselves in the Hartwick College Anthropology lab (with a notorious closet full of skulls) until our finals were over and graduation was in…

And now we begin

“A master of reiki Waved his hands over me And said I eat too much steak And hold on too long to ancient aches And both are so hard On my heart Oh, I try to be a good person…

New Site!

I can’t believe how proud I am of designing my own self-hosted website.  I’ve designed a few websites before and it’s a pretty intuitive process but this was a bit of a different monster.  Alas, wanting to offer you all…