October 1, 2009
Three wooden wrist malas Hello!  This blog has been moved to: http://www.heartofcompassionmalas.blogspot.com And because for some reason I get a lot of hits from Brazil, (Hello San Paulo!), here is the redirect in Portuguese: Olá!! Este blogue foi movido para: http://www.heartofcompassionmalas.blogspot.com And in Spanish: ¡Hola! Este blog se ha movido a: http://www.heartofcompassionmalas.blogspotcom And French: Bonjour, ce blog a été déplacé à : http://www.heartofcompassionmalas.blogspot.com And German: Hallo, ist dieses Blog auf verschoben worden: http://www.heartofcompassionmalas.blogspot.com And Italian: Ciao, questo blog è stato mosso verso: http://www.heartofcompassionmalas.blogspot.com I’m sorry if I left out your language.  Visit my Etsy shop for details about worldwide shipping.

Three wooden wrist malas

Hello!  This blog has been moved to:

http://www.heartofcompassionmalas.blogspot.com

And because for some reason I get a lot of hits from Brazil, (Hello San Paulo!), here is the redirect in Portuguese:

Olá!! Este blogue foi movido para: http://www.heartofcompassionmalas.blogspot.com

And in Spanish:

¡Hola! Este blog se ha movido a: http://www.heartofcompassionmalas.blogspotcom

And French:

Bonjour, ce blog a été déplacé à : http://www.heartofcompassionmalas.blogspot.com

And German:

Hallo, ist dieses Blog auf verschoben worden: http://www.heartofcompassionmalas.blogspot.com

And Italian:

Ciao, questo blog è stato mosso verso: http://www.heartofcompassionmalas.blogspot.com

I’m sorry if I left out your language.  Visit my Etsy shop for details about worldwide shipping.

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July 6, 2009
This blog is closed, gone.  To read the new one please click over to http://www.heartofcompassionmalas.blogspot.com Thanks!  See you there. P.S. The last year’s worth of posts on this blog are still here.  But I’m really not adding to it except to say, just this once, that: This blog is closed, gone.  To read the new one please click over to http://www.heartofcompassionmalas.blogspot.com Thanks!  See you there.

This blog is closed, gone.  To read the new one please click over to

http://www.heartofcompassionmalas.blogspot.com

Thanks!  See you there.

P.S. The last year’s worth of posts on this blog are still here.  But I’m really not adding to it except to say, just this once, that:

This blog is closed, gone.  To read the new one please click over to

http://www.heartofcompassionmalas.blogspot.com

Thanks!  See you there.

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June 1, 2009

Tumblr, I've loved you but I'm moving on!

Dear Tumblr…

You’ve been a great first blog.  Sort of like a first marriage, you’ve taught me what I need to know to make my second one better.  I miss that you never let me make a blogroll. I want to customize. But I loved that you put my pictures on the web big, BIG, BIG as I wanted them.

I hope my new blog host will let me do that.  But I’m willing to try something new.  So from now on, except for random blurbs now and then, you can find me at:

heartofcompassionmalas.blogspot.com/

Really, Tumblr, I’ve loved our time together and I’ll always be extremely grateful for all you’ve taught me.  Things just weren’t working out.  Let’s still be friends.

Shake on it?  Oh, come on, let’s hug. :-)

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May 26, 2009
Day Lilies with Backlighting

Day Lilies with Backlighting

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May 25, 2009
Happy Memorial Day to You! Wherever you are, whatever you do, have a happy Memorial Day.  Whether it’s by yourself or with a crowd, with a barbecue or just some miso soup, enjoy the day.   Whether you get to work today or go have the day off, enjoy it. That’s the same wish I have for you for every day.  That we all enjoy being alive.  In the good of it, in the difficultness of it, alone, together—we are always loved.  We must always love each other, too! Recently, while studying compassion with my meditation group, we remembered the songs “(All We Are Saying,) Give Peace a Chance” and “What the World Needs Now is Love”.   My group is knee-deep in trying to bring ancient Buddhist teachings on love and compassion into our lives, and we realized how many people have been trying to do this for decades.  These songs are just two examples. Now, we need love more than ever.  We need to each search for forgiveness and compassion inside ourselves—both for ourselves and for others.  Because as we try to do what many refer to as “healing the planet” we need to heal ourselves from the inside out first.  Then we can exist with each other. We are all just a heartbeat away from death…we share that mortality.  We also are related, by blood actually!  Distant cousins, maybe, but related none-the-less. I don’t know why, but I’m all fired up on this today.  Light the Memorial Day barbecue of Love! I’ll provide the lighter fluid. Peace.

Happy Memorial Day to You!

Wherever you are, whatever you do, have a happy Memorial Day.  Whether it’s by yourself or with a crowd, with a barbecue or just some miso soup, enjoy the day.   Whether you get to work today or go have the day off, enjoy it.

That’s the same wish I have for you for every day.  That we all enjoy being alive.  In the good of it, in the difficultness of it, alone, together—we are always loved.  We must always love each other, too!

Recently, while studying compassion with my meditation group, we remembered the songs “(All We Are Saying,) Give Peace a Chance” and “What the World Needs Now is Love”.   My group is knee-deep in trying to bring ancient Buddhist teachings on love and compassion into our lives, and we realized how many people have been trying to do this for decades.  These songs are just two examples.

Now, we need love more than ever.  We need to each search for forgiveness and compassion inside ourselves—both for ourselves and for others.  Because as we try to do what many refer to as “healing the planet” we need to heal ourselves from the inside out first.  Then we can exist with each other. We are all just a heartbeat away from death…we share that mortality.  We also are related, by blood actually!  Distant cousins, maybe, but related none-the-less.

I don’t know why, but I’m all fired up on this today.  Light the Memorial Day barbecue of Love!

I’ll provide the lighter fluid.

Peace.

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May 18, 2009
Saw this sign in an antiques and garden shop in Santa Cruz last week. It says it all. Sometimes, lately especially, a foto says more than I could.

Saw this sign in an antiques and garden shop in Santa Cruz last week. It says it all. Sometimes, lately especially, a foto says more than I could.

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