Buddhism’s Most Basic Teaching: Everything Changes
Shunryu Suzuki on our inability to accept the truth that we and everything around us are in a state of constant flux.
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Pigs in Winter
BY QUINCY MCMICHAEL
Snow is water, and water conducts electricity, but the electric fence will not fire as usual, buried three feet deep.
Observed by Deer
BY SARA MCAULAY
I’ve come here for raptors. Left my campsite at dawn, hiked down through blue shadows to the meadow.
This Is For You
BY BETH SHELBURNE
This is for you, he says, dropping the wet, glistening shell into my open palm like a coin.
Last Temptation
BY MARY DOWNES
How Nikos Kazantzakis’ “The Last Temptation of Christ” changed my understanding of Christianity – at 24, Jesus of Nazareth became personal.
Breathing
BY SONIA TRICKEY
We began our ascent of the South Cirque at 5:20am. Snow had fallen thickly overnight, the path was invisible and it was very dark. Most of us had barely slept.
Amy Lowell – A Blockhead
A modernist poet deeply influenced by Ezra Pound’s Imagist movement, Amy Lowell was an energetic and innovative voice in early 20th century poetry.
In Praise of Winter Hiking
BY ANTHONY EMERSON
December is here, and soon snow will fall and accumulate in amounts that must be measured in feet.
The Loss
BY EDWARD M COHEN
I only write this down because it causes so much pain. It involves so much loss that in the moment, when I awake with no desire to rush for a pen, it’s hard to see the value in what is happening.
Gully and Bayou
BY NEIL ELLIS ORTS
This farm boy wandered the acres of woods and explored the gully. I sat under the cedar that grew on a high bank, roots exposed, waiting for the right number of rains to let go.
