Category: Uncategorized

Culture and Art, Life of Carmen, Uncategorized

Why I don’t do facebook

Some people can drink wine with every meal. Other people are alcoholics. Me, I can’t do facebook. There are FB-haters out there with many sound reasons to criticize the giant social media octopus – the best one, to me, being that it is a closed-source corporate entity whose sole reason for existing is to collect …

Dorje LIng, Life of Carmen, Uncategorized

A perfect day for gratitude and goodbye

This morning I was knocked ass-over-teakettle, by a giant wave of gratitude for all the marvels of this highly imperfect life. I rode down to Dorje Ling to bring Kenny a newly knitted pair of fingerless mitts – marked by holes and bumpy stitches, highly imperfect, Dorje Ling style. He was glad to see me …

Life of Carmen, Uncategorized, Zen & Dharma

What did one Buddhist say to the other?

I’m on a binge, knitting and listening to Lama Marut audios. He is just so funny, so humane, and so brutally straight-up no-bullshit Brooklyn buddhist. I am noticing how many good buddhist dharma teachers are in fact hilarious – timing and delivery and laser-sharp observations, like the best standup i’ve ever heard – and some …