My mornings are usually too hectic to write much anymore. For a while, I was trying to get up at 4am to have time to write; now I try for 4:30, and and then there’s the snooze alarm for a few times while I try in vain to remember dreams and contemplate how cold [...]
My newest zen hero: Ikkyu, originator of the concept of “the red thread of zen”. Philip Toshio Sudo described Ikkyu’s philosophy and influence like this:
To Ikkyu, cutting off relations between men and women so as to attain enlightenment made no sense. In his philosophy of “red thread zen,” sex deepened the experience of [...]
My ranch job is to be the morning goat milker, so every morning at 6am, I head down to the barn and greet the ladies. If it’s been a rainy night, they’re usually hanging out in the barn.
Then I head into the middle room of the barn, where the milk is stored. My [...]