For the past few months, I’ve been practicing a lovingkindness exercise adapted from the Buddhist practice for culturing metta, a wish for the welfare and happiness of others. May you be safe, may you be happy, may you be healthy, and may you live with ease. It’s really quite simple. Mentally repeat and direct this [...]
winter dream
Stillness. Quiet. Sunday morning solitude. Spring is tip-toeing towards us, hinted at by heavy dewfrost on delicate branches. It’s mid-morning, and fog lies wooly blanket thick over fields and highway. Somewhere above there is a bright sun shining. I look up and see the edge. It won’t be long. Soon this beautiful, soft, ethereal world [...]
jojo, March 19th 2010
Going to Salt Spring
It’s early. Like ‘I’m on holidays and can’t waste a minute sleeping’ early. The first ferry of the day is leaving the Crofton by the Sea harbour for Salt Spring Island, and we’re driving down to park the car in the lineup for the next one, which leaves an hour later. The pre-sunrise glow is [...]
jojo, February 9th 2010
