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climb this nameless flower
O snail --
but slowly, slowly
(after Basho)
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Mark White, an artist and potter, works and lives in Omao, on Kauai. His passions are ceramic fishing lures, surfing, Kauai and photography (not necessarily in this order). A man of few words, his images capture the essence of the Aina. We will fearture them periodically. When the spirit moves us, we will add a quote or a comment.
As we descended the narrow road past the grassy fields hemmed in by thick brush and blackberry bushes, we saw two massive horses grazing, each lifting its head periodically to look at us. I noticed something moving in the tall grass by their haunches—a furry animal built low to the ground, brownish grey with a long bushy tail.
“Look!” I said. “Un zorro!”“Are you sure?” my wife asked, straining on tiptoes to have a better look. “Yes, it certainly does look like a fox, doesn’t it?” >>more
Brian T. Maurer has practiced pediatrics as a Physician Assistant for thirty years. His "Marginal Notes" column appears periodically in the Cell2Soul Blog. The title "Marginal Notes" is taken from a quote by Henry David Thoreau: "I love a broad margin to my life."
We enter the narrow winding cobblestone streets of the port of Cariño and weave our way up the inclines past the fountain in the small plaza. Up above, at the cemetery, the vista opens up. From here you can look down on the red-tiled roofs of the town past the ancient stone wharf across the bay to the Isle of San Vincente and the large expanse of white beach beyond. Off to the left, away to the northeast, the jagged coastline stretches all the way to the punta of Estaca de Bares, the northern most point of Spain. >>more
Brian T. Maurer has practiced pediatrics as a Physician Assistant for thirty years. His "Marginal Notes" column appears periodically in the Cell2Soul Blog. The title "Marginal Notes" is taken from a quote by Henry David Thoreau: "I love a broad margin to my life."
In case you missed this amazing NY Times Op-Ed piece, you might want to read it.
"Most of us are perfectly capable of making distinctions within the
Christian world. The fact that someone is a Boston Roman Catholic
doesn’t mean he’s in league with Irish Republican Army bomb makers, just
as not all Orthodox Christians have ties to Serbian war criminals or
Southern Baptists to the murderers of abortion doctors.
Yet many of our leaders have a tendency to see the Islamic world as a single, terrifying monolith."
"Few in the U.S. or Europe remember that a devastating Taliban attack occurred last spring at the shrine of the 17th-century poet-saint Rahman Baba, at the foot of the Khyber Pass in northwest Pakistan. For centuries, the complex has been a place for musicians and poets to gather, and Rahman Baba’s Sufi verses had long made him the national poet of the Pashtuns living on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. “I am a lover, and I deal in love,” wrote the saint. “Sow flowers,/ so your surroundings become a garden./ Don’t sow thorns; for they will prick your feet./ We are all one body./ Whoever tortures another, wounds himself.”
Click on Muslims in the Middle to read this important article. The author, William Dalrymple, is a noted historian and writer about the Middle East, India and Pakistan.
On either side the mountains rose up from the sea like prehistoric dinosaurs, their jagged peaks draped in torn green blankets where outcroppings of grey rocks broke through. As I stood there buffeted by the wind, I understood once again why I love this country too much for my own good. >>more
Brian T. Maurer has practiced pediatrics as a Physician Assistant for thirty years. His "Marginal Notes" column appears periodically in the Cell2Soul Blog. The title "Marginal Notes" is taken from a quote by Henry David Thoreau: "I love a broad margin to my life."
Chuang-tzu
Father Bloom is dead; God rest his soul. His obituary states that he died from "shortness of breath." As I recall, he was never a long-winded man to begin with. >>more
Brian T. Maurer has practiced pediatrics as a Physician Assistant for thirty years. His "Marginal Notes" column appears periodically in the Cell2Soul Blog. The title "Marginal Notes" is taken from a quote by Henry David Thoreau: "I love a broad margin to my life."
"Julie Murphy, a 7-year-old Oregonian, set up a lemonade stand on July 29
at an art fair in northeast Portland. County health inspectors shut
her down, however, telling Julie and her mother, Maria Fife, that they
needed a temporary restaurant license, which costs $120. The penalty for
selling food without a permit, they warned, was $500. At 50 cents a
cup, that’s a lot of lemonade." See Article.
Spirited restive flea
become a Buddha
by my hand.
Issa.