Perfection . . . Almost

Each one of us is per-
fect the way we are

and . . . we can use
a little help.

Click here for a koan from Shunryu Suzuri about this apparent contradiction.

. . . the rope!

Now don't forget the rope!

Hemlock Society Manual

At the doctor's office today I overheard one elderly woman say to another, "Now don't forget the rope." I imagined the last "nag" a wife might give a husband as he announced his intention to go to another world (suicide is on my mind since I have just been given some warm clothes from a couple who shared a house with someone who decided to leave planet Earth).

And then there is the tragedy of any election—that almost half the country doesn't get what it wanted.

Nandina Invasion

The plant was so in-
vasive it grew ever-
ywhere.

(We have been digging out nandina plants from our new garden. Actually burned out my Sawzall cutting roots and dirt.)

Free Stones

Someone announced on our neighborhood listserv that they had free building materials to give away.

We filled the car with
free stones, but couldn't
move the car.

Free stones.

3 Armed Lady

He snored as he
practiced the new
dance step with the
3 armed lady.

Real Halloween

I brought $42 of nuts and
my wife bought $2 of pea-
nut butter cups. Guess
what the kids chose.

Yoga

Went to a difficult yoga class today.

Difficult, that is, for me,
not for the rest of the class.

I asked the teacher how often
I should be coming.
"Twice a week," she said.

My daughter said, "everyday, Dad."

Go figure!

Pregnant Couple at Doctor's Office

Newsw
k

They (mother and child) held a magazine in front of
her face as they waited for
his (the child's) coming out party.

Have you noticed how everyone
(other women)
asks a pregnant
woman "how r u doing?" in a very
compassionate tone?

What about the kid? How's he
doing, wading in darkness
like there was no tomorrow?

Whispering

HalLoween

Hapi HalLoween

Group

Clash

News in Heaven

What would
the News
be in Heaven?

After learning about the seniority system used in Buddhist monasteries, I started to wonder about the politics in Heaven. Is there "news," and what is its nature (only good?).

Astronaut

Fashioned after a Sarah Palin alteration.

Shot in the Arm

The nurses who give allergy shots all day long don't change gloves for each patient. The gloves are just to protect the nurses, not the patients, they say.

Outrageous? Let me know...

Danjer

The Zen master told me tonight that I was trying too hard (related to my "sitting," not my art). I thought I'd try a little less hard. I never thought that one is different in the different modes of their life.

This was made in the doctor's office. A dad brought his kid in a few minutes late, but they still took him. The dad said something about sneakin' under the wire just as I put the stylus to my Palm.

Teotihucan Homage

It did not notice . . .

It did
not not-
ice that
it was
abo- ve
itself.

. . . cutting into my profit.

Today I played Joe
the plumber, failing to
fix a leaking pipe. 2
morrow I try again,
cutting into my profit.

Joe the Plumber