Coffee With Clark: French Guiana

Sunday, January 5, 2014

The blog at 130 countries!

Readers in two more countries found Coffee with Clark this week, bringing to 130 the countries where I've had readers.
Today, someone in French Guiana in South America clicked onto the blog, and earlier this week, someone in Jamaica did. Soon, I'll post something about those countries. One of my birthday blessings, and things I'm thankful for, is that people find something interesting here. And it allows me to travel the world in my imagination, wondering about the people and their stories. Thanks.

Meditation

Just out the window, black silhouettes of trees remind me of those halcyon days with you, when we climbed out of the cellar toward enlightenment. Now, at a glance, the wild birds swing into view, obscuring the real world of young men dying to get home, and the snow that falls on our brains stays solid - never melting into springtime. On the ferry, we sit and compare notes as to whom in life has suffered the most; men, women, boys, or girls? Suddenly, in a revelation, you say it is the Buddha over on Main, who sits on his plywood altar, surrounded by plastic flowers, subjected to all the passersby, who have never had a Zen thought of their own… --K. Lawson Gilbert

Coffee Grounds

Sunday, January 5, 2014

The blog at 130 countries!