Coffee With Clark: Mali children

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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Coming blog header photos

Ok, these are a few of several I intend for the coming year.

What I want to do is figure out how to have a slide show that switches every 20 seconds or so, but I haven't found the answer yet. Ideas?

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Every time I start to feel sorry for myself, or get down in the dumps, I try to think of these kids, in Mali, two years ago. They remind me of what is not important.

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 31, 2010

Coming blog header photos

Sunday, June 21, 2009