Here are some songs about time passing, times gone by and the time ahead.         Bonne année! Buon anno! Feliz año nuevo! Wishing you peace, love and understanding.  

I rarely participate in traditional holidays. I skip Thanksgiving gorging, X-mas excess, and especially inebriated New Year's mob scenes. I prefer to be quiet and calm. In that vein I thought I'd share a couple of alternatives to the 'noise'. New Year's Eve at the Santa Cruz Zen Center: Tuesday, December 31, 8:30pm Zazen and walking…

"In recent years, studies have shown that meditation-like thought (an exercise in the very attentional control that forms the center of mindfulness), for as little as fifteen minutes a day, can shift frontal brain activity toward a pattern that has been associated with more positive and more approach-oriented emotional states, and that looking at scenes…

Come in close. I will speak softly. I will try to be more quiet, more still, more contemplative. Shhhh. I will endeavor to be a better wallflower, a smooth grey stone… with some good music mixed in for creative motivation.

Spent a beautiful day with my beautiful son Jesse on his 29th (!) Birthday. We started the day with crepes at a sun-drenched restaurant, followed by a hike across the land at UCSC with a rich view of the entire Monterey Bay. The sun was glistening, glass-like, on the ocean. It was perfect t-shirt weather.…

  Practice that speech which brings people together, abandon that speech which pushes people apart. ~ buddhist precept                           try     try     try     try     try