The Buddha’s Last Instruction  by Mary Oliver “Make of yourself a light” said the Buddha,  before he died. I think of this every morning as the east begins to tear off its many clouds of darkness, to send up the first signal-a white fan streaked with pink and violet,

For the fun of it, I had to do a side-by-side “before” and “after” shot.   Yay people!  We cracked 10 G’s!  For morale-boosting purposes, I think we should leave that nice brilliant “we did it!” thing up there for the weekend.  But I just might be tempted to “mush”

[Part one of a two-part post.] Last week I hit a nadir about all this Proposition 8 malarkey. It was a bad one, if something like a nadir can be characterized on a relative scale. It was close to noon (Tuesday, actually), and I was in a crazed wind tunnel