Travel Tangles

Marilyn’s GuitarWhat pops into my mind first about traveling overseas is Marilyn’s guitar. In my head, that’s what began it all for me. Marilyn, just back from Mexico, all those years ago. Marilyn singing in Spanish as she strummed away on her guitar. Marilyn, my close friend Judy’s eldest sister.…

A Buddhist VerseIn the ‘Exalted Sublime Golden Light Sutra’, there is this verse that talks about a number of impossibilities in nature: When white lilies growIn the Ganges’ swift currents,When crows become redAnd cuckoos turn the color of conch,When palm fruit grows on the rose-apple treeAnd on the date tree…

I drank a cup of tea and watched the flowing and stillness.Quietly and naturally I seemed to forget the return of time. The Korean monk Choui Uisun wrote this hymn to Korea teain 1837 in one of his set of poems called The Hymns To Korean Tea. This and his…