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Jan 3
DeerPark Holidays retreat 1/1/2025
Now the intention is set the real work begins. Just like driving the Beamer on the fast lane of CA 15 w the deep breath as the guard rail...
Dec 25, 2024
Seabreeze Farms X-mas 2024
Thầy teaches that there would be no compassion for others until there is compassion for oneself. I am doing everything to test the...
Dec 7, 2024
Walking on the home path
Today I finally got to walk on my home path. A year and a half. How did Frank know? Sometimes it takes everything to work seamlessly...
Dec 1, 2024
Norwegian Bliss Thanksgiving 2024
Interesting notes from Thẩy Thích Nhất Hạnh's Old Path White clouds These births and deaths were but outward appearances and not true...
Dec 1, 2024
Norwegian Bliss 11/30/2024
Thưa Thầy. Tối hôm qua nằm ngũ trên đường về từ Mexico con đọc thấy Thầy viết hổi ký cùng ngày lúc con đẽ. Con khỏng ngờ được. Thầy...
Nov 18, 2024
Nov 10, 2024
Deer Park 11/10/2024
Thẩy Thích Nhất Hạnh's Old Path White clouds
Nov 3, 2024
Deer Park 10/26/2024
I know I bury my fear very deeply
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Apr 27, 2024
Incremental Improvement
Wed 5/1 Tonight I killed it. Broke the 1 min barrier :-) Friday 4/26 I haven't been swimming in a while. Forgot that by just slightly...
Apr 26, 2024
Apr 25, 2024
A Place to Paint
It took me 9 months before I could find a place similar to Central Park where I first learned to paint. Instead of coming via subway...
Mar 5, 2024
Liberation of the physical
For a moment tonight I felt the possibility of swimming approximating painting as supposed to the other way around of painting...
Feb 28, 2024
Delmar Feb 27 2024
Finally I can breathe a little bit. Imaginary burden and invisible stories are just so heavy to carry. It should always be my intention...
Feb 10, 2024
Time - A new Epilogue - a memory reflection of a former war child refugee
Over dinner last night Isabelle shared with me a piece of her writing on the nature of time for her AP English class. It was funny...
Feb 10, 2024
Lunar New Year (Te^'t) 2024 Year of the Dragon Day 1
Painting is Magic but painting is really hard I reread the first line 12 years after Isabelle and Oliver were born and realized that I...
Jan 4, 2024
A Journey That Knows No End
Nature is now my teacher. It tells me where I need to be. I am its embodiment
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