We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Walter Anderson

One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though … betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.
Steven Dietz

The past [...]

Now that the weather is nicer, we’ve been leaving our sliding glass door open most of the time, and one of Kai’s favorite things to do is hunt the birds that gather around our bird-feeder. It’s a little bit sad to watch because he knows, and we know, that he’ll never actually get at [...]

…and widgets are the symptom. I love these things. I would probably be perfectly happy to never post another thing again, and just update my blog by adding new widgets each day. They’re a like flair for my website. In general, I prefer minimalism in web design. I don’t like cluttering up my web [...]

Come out of the circle of time, and into the circle of love.
Rumi

The sounds of streams
are Buddha’s speech.
The colored mountains
are Buddha’s pure body.
Night brings eighty-four
thousand poems of Buddha.
Listen, someday you may awaken.
Su Shih (1031-1101)

This was supposed to be posted over two weeks ago on the 27th, but because my parents live in the godforsaken wilderness that is Maine, their DSL is cursed and cut out the moment I tried to post. Luckily, WordPress was prepared for such an occasion, and saved most of the post (the rest [...]