21 May 2023. The case for beautiful losers, via Leonard Cohen and “the great North strong and free.” So-called. Once upon a time.

21 May 2023. A novel kind of beggary rears its strange head in the 21st century. (Marxist immiseration has nothing to do with it.)

21 May 2023. Some personal gripes, set off by friendly comments. Such is life.

21 May 2023. You will meet some old friends here, even if you might not be thrilled to acknowledge them.

22 May 2023. What to do when your practice falls apart. It happens.

23 May 2023. Embarrassing to realize and awkward to admit, but we do all have it—monkey mind, I mean, not good mental hygiene.

24 May 2023. A genuine holdout from that antediluvian pronoun debate, seriously? I thought those had all died out with the brontosauruses...

24 May 2023. An old-school liberal faces his moment of truth, with bitter results.

24 May 2023. I held this one back for a year, for reasons explained in the previous post. I may have been wrong then; I may be wrong now.

27 May 2023. Let’s not pretend: wilting away, every day a few steps closer to the grave, is the worst. Except for the usual alternatives…

27 May 2023. To solve this mind-bender, not just intellectually but experientially, is to break free, they say. Godspeed!

28 May 2023. Executive summary: you don’t have anything to worry about. Not on the meditation side, anyway…

29 May 2023. It's a complex spectrum: the ordinary blues here, pitch darkness there, a range of midnight shades in between.

2 June 2023. Caring may come at a price, but it's well-worth paying when you have chosen the right things to care about.

3 June 2023. Over thirty posts in just a month! Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end...

4 June 2023. Not to be confused with nostalgia, skepticism about the possibility of progress, technophobia, or (heaven forbid) Luddism…

9 June 2023. Good friendship, the Buddha corrected Ananda, is not “half the Path”; it is the whole of it.

12 June 2023. A “good” Buddhist should be uncomfortable with filthy lucre, right? Well, this one isn’t, but he's only a Beggar's Buddhist...

17 June 2023. To be taken for a corrective only, not a reversal of direction: aiming for negativity would be perverse.

23 June 2023. Famous last words: /my/ crocodile doesn't bite...

27 June 2023. It’s not the end yet when you can still say, this is it…

30 June 2023. Only a teaser, not a substitute for the print edition, which alone makes for the experience I would recommend.

2 July 2023. Note: I never said “Down /with/ the count!” I was down for the count from looking too much, so it had to go...

6 July 2023. Plato's Republic should not be mistaken for a democracy, nor opinion for judgment.