Thursday, November 6, 2008

Help!



Help!

In Buddhism we help people by being compassionate and giving them strength to help themselves.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

. . . 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.

Monday, November 3, 2008

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.)

Sunday, November 2, 2008

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.

Who's in the world?

Xiushan said, "What can you do about the world?" Dizang said, "What do you call the world?"