If you are a (straight) man, would you mate with someone who is older, taller, or wealthier than you? If not, why not? If you are a (straight) woman, would you mate with someone who is younger, shorter, or less wealthy than you? If not, why not?
Category: Aging & Dying
Always leaving, always coming home
Go away with no string on your straw sandals. —Dogen Zenji Today I left home and arrived home. I wedged the door of the turtlebus closed with a stick, and rode the ferry across the Salish Sea. Home to the Appias, Apt. 306. Home to my storage locker full of clothes and photographs and love …
Five. Zero.
So I am fifty now—fifty! Five. Zero. I like the sound of that. Fresh, sharp, new, nifty. I am fifty. I am told I don’t look fifty, or move or speak or act like whatever the common understanding of fifty conveys. People are taken aback when they hear my age and they ask, how? Why? …
Sex under the full moon
It is the full moon, and our monthly Zen Fusatsu service. During fusatsu we renew the ten basic lay precepts. We commit to ethical and responsible action, with an eye toward serving all beings. We bow and we chant and we vow and for the most part i am totally down with it. It is …
A letter to 10-year-old me
Dear little girl with the wild red hair and mad eyes. Buck up kiddo. Here is the life you will lead when you are 50. You will live in a sunny apartment in the coolest neighbourhood in the most beautiful city on earth. Your best buddy will live on the other side of your closet …