Month: April 2004

The gardenia bush near the front door is filled with fragrant blossoms of an immaculate white. The passerby is invited to linger and enjoy the wonderful scent t...

Two pregnant squirrels chuck at one another across the trees from their perpendicular perches a hundred yards from one another. Their chief rivalry, however, is...

The dead pine tree fell ignominiously the other day, though I did not see it fall. Other dead trees I have seen and heard tumble down — no particular reas...

Many people balk at asceticism because the term suggests a kind of lofty or artificial morality or prudishness. The idea of simplicity, it might be argued, does...

Simplicity ought to be our mode of daily life but what is simplicity? So many books and articles tell us that simplicity is frugality or time management, or ...

Reading Red Pine’s Poems of the Masters: China’s Classic Anthology of T’ang and Sung Dynasty Verse, I come to a line by Hsieh Fang-te that run...

How many of us regret wasted years, time spent doing stupid things, relating to wrong people. But we must realize that we were where we had to be given our stat...

Music is a form of creativity not only for the composer but also for the performer and for the listener who participates over and over in the creative expressio...