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May 2017

May 13, 2017

Kyoto Bonus: Daruma-dera Visit

The figurines symbolize a proverb: if you fall down seven times, get up eight times....

May 07, 2017

Even In Japan, Things Change

Everything needs a little renovation now and again, even the human heart.

May 06, 2017

Kyoto’s Ancestors Are Watching; Deities In Commerce

It was as if the ancestral spirits were watching out over the city. I don't...

May 05, 2017

Seven Lucky Gods And The Spiritual Function Of Travel

And it reminds me of one of the spiritual functions of travel: to shake up...

May 03, 2017

Punching At The Shrine, Partying At The Temple

It demonstrates the way these two different paths fit together here. Religion is not seen...

May 01, 2017

Back In Japan

And so I'll get a little time in here with both Shinto and Buddhist deities.

May 01, 2017

Omedeto Rainbow (52 Make-up Week 17)

A rule for art: if you don't have technique, have a fresh and creative approach.

April 2017

April 30, 2017

“Riddle Under Foot” (Poem, 52 Make-up Week 16)

They scatter me and then cut me down but I rise again

April 29, 2017

A Call To Inaction

It is easy to say, "Something must be done!" It is easy to do something,...

April 26, 2017

Kenny Klein And Jerks In Your Lineage

If we see our spiritual selves primarily as products of a lineage, as inheritors of...

April 22, 2017

“Ka-Bloom!” (Photograph, “52 Make-Up” Week 15)

When you really stop and take a close look at things, sometimes you see cool...

April 22, 2017

What Science Is And Isn’t

So let us join with Uncle Walt in saying "Hurrah for positive science!" But let...

April 16, 2017

Who Are You, What Have You Sacrificed?

And then some folks get the idea that Jeshua might have the qualifications to be...

April 16, 2017

Remaking

When my mother got sick back in September, she was wearing this little crystal pendant....

April 16, 2017

“Light Breaks Through” (Painting, “52 Make-Up” Week 14)

In creating this piece I used an approach similar to what I use when improvising...

April 13, 2017

War Crimes As Usual, United Horror Stories, And Big Tent Buddhism

Time once again for our mid-week random selection of stories. War Crimes As Usual It...

April 08, 2017

“Beginning Anew” (Song, “52 Make-Up” Week 13)

When I sat down with the guitar a few hours later, that feeling of renew...

April 07, 2017

Social Rituals, Assembly-Line Confession, and Cosmological Confusion

And so what is currently thought to be 68% of the universe may suddenly disappear,...

March 2017

March 30, 2017

Icelandic Heathens Rising, Cultural Appropriation Violence, And Free Software And Sexual Freedom

The idea of "cultural appropriation" has once again provoked violence from someone who decided they...

March 29, 2017

“Big Black Cat” (Song, “52 Make-Up” Week 12)

Where do songs come from? In this case, from 1. Seeing a big black cat...

March 27, 2017

Zen And The Art Of…Obeying The Rules?

To some extent, “stability” means “resistance to change". To change an unjust system you may...

March 23, 2017

Bad Maps, Say His Name, And Stopping A Street Fight

Our usual mid-week selection of quick takes. Bad Maps: Gall-Peters is no cartographic hero Breathless...

March 20, 2017

“Walking the Dog in the Equinox Twilight” (Poem, “52 Make-Up” Week 11)

I'm going to try to show something about revision, and how a rough bunch of...

March 19, 2017

Chuck Berry And My Dad

Every close relationship has moments of magic. They might be soap bubble fragile, so ephemeral...

March 16, 2017

Dirty Fighting, The Normalization of Disease, And Privacy Sold Separately

Presented for your consideration, our usual Wednesday round of three stories I found interesting this...

March 13, 2017

“Blue And Gold” (Digital Art, “52 Makeup” Week 10)

By controlling focus and illumination -- and aren't those very words suggestive -- photography can...

March 12, 2017

“Sarasvati” (Song, “52 Makeup” Week 9)

This is the first time I've written anything along the lines of a chant or...

March 09, 2017

Putting It Down, Butt-Kicking Girls, and The Return of Samurai Jack

Speaking of martial arts, one of the great fictional martial arts heroes is about to...

March 02, 2017

March Blooms, Antisemitism, And Seven Pillars Of Wisdom

Welcome to another Random Wednesday here on The Zen Pagan. Today's episode is being written...

March 01, 2017

“Did it taste the same?” (Poem, “52 Makeup” Week 8)

The scent of the alarm The sound of a hot pepper The taste of a...

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