Monthly Archives: July, 2009

An First Step to Something Bigger: Composting

Month after month, I have reviewed what’s been happening at Skillful Means, but I have also written about some of the written and unwritten challenges (a.k.a things I want to do).  The unwritten ones are those that I thought were kind of “iffy”.  Those items that I really didn’t have a good starting point for, [...]

A Year Later – The Eightfold Path in Reflection

Last year, about this time, I began looking more closely at Buddhism and some of the tools that it offers.  I had decided to take my first look at the “Eightfold Path”, something that I had heard of through the four noble truths of Buddhism (using the eightfold path is recommended in the fourth noble [...]

More Tales from the Dust

I took so many pictures this weekend, but I am making a balance between sharing with friends and slowing down their browsers to a crawl. As you may know, if you have been surfing the Internet a bit, adding many pictures to one web page may slow things down a bit.  So I do a [...]

Discussion Notes June 7th – Hardcore Zen – Pass Me the Ecstasy Rainbow, I’m Going to Nirvana on a Stretcher!, Eating a Tangerine is Real Enlightenment, Hardcore Zen, Epilogue

This is the last night of our discussion group for the summer.  We plan to regroup again in October around the 1st.  The group may take a little different form if we regroup. I am taking suggestions now about how we can change the group for the better.  We may even be consider opening up [...]

Driving Out from the Dust: More Pictures from South West Oregon

Have you ever lived through something, asked a question, only to live long enough to have someone witness the same things and ask the same questions?  I guess I have lived long enough for at least one of these questions.  I’ll only admit to living long enough for one, well I’ll try to admit only [...]

Recursive Inspiration – Using the Unplanned to Urge Creativity

This blog has been a lot of fun.  I don’t think I had aspirations of writing the stories that my friends were motivating me to write in blog form, although, I did have expectations to write creatively more frequently; if possible, everyday.  Maybe it was shortsighted of me to think that I would only be [...]

Free Cold Play Live Album

I’m off to a weekend in the high desert of Oregon somewhere.  Should be interesting.  While checking my e-mail today I received a e-mail from the Cold Play web site, reminding me of their free live album that they had released on the Internet.  If you are a fan of Cold Play it is worth [...]

Fresh Cherry Pie – Picking, Pitting, and Baking – Oh My!

I have made a deal with myself this year.  Since I have have the time this year I would spend time trying to do as much as I have wished to in the past, but didn’t have the time to.  One of the things that I have always wanted to do, but haven’t had time [...]

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