Category: thinking + zen

This looks great. Ed has been a hero of mine since since high school and his path always inspired me. The movie features an original score by Money Mark ta’…

Always liked this little clip of some palms blowing in Costa Rica. The offshore winds there are great!

“The best things in life aren’t things” — Art Buchwald

Coloniale snowy scene The snow here is amazing. Love seeing so much of it.

The phrase “Memento mori” came up today while I was surfing around at lunch. Something I’d read about, studied and thought about on numerous occasions (the fact itself, the process…

After discussing the idea with Allen last week, I couldn’t resist pulling a ‘polar bear‘ on Saturday at the cottage. My version of a polar bear is: 30 minutes in…

So our new cottage has a sweet indoor cedar ‘wet’ sauna with hot rocks. We finally got to fire it up on Saturday (the temp dial says it goes to…

This is cool. Word has it that you can buy it from Giant Robot in NY and LA. Even comes with a “secret action piece” to place within your great…

The beauty of simplicity, usability, and aesthetics combined — When looking at this chair, You just know that Larry gets it. He’s sat on the beach. He’s probably even bought…

The Apple “Pro” site has a great video profile of Toyko artist Takagi Masakatsu. He has got to be one of the best “stock” filters users I’ve seen. Some of…

This short movie “The Tulpa” (trailer here) has popped up on The Movie Network (it’s showing numerous times in the next 2 weeks). It’s a story about “a television reporter…

I’m a good napper. You might even say a great napper. My cottage naps are the stuff of legend. I can put myself to sleep very easily and wake up…

It has been 50 years since it was first published. I have read ‘On the Road’ a couple times. As Bob Dylan said “It changed my life like it changed…

Last week while driving down to the cottage late one night with Linda, I saw a large black bear sitting by the side of the road (Lac Nick road off…

I found this book, “The Training of the Zen Buddhist Monk”, (an old edition) that someone gave me a long time ago. It’s a straight forward read on the life…