Hosea's Blog

Yesterday I wrote about my fear of having to make a lot of decisions, as one obstacle that stands in the way of my getting published. But th...

Long, long ago—more than fourteen years ago, now that I look at it— I posted a quote from Orson Scott Card's Children of the Mind , whe...

 One of the standard Buddhist meditations—at any rate you find lay practitioners in America using it a lot—is the so-called " metta me...

Last week in Sangha ( a meeting I described here ) we studied a selection from Thich Nhat Hanh's posthumous book Zen and the Art of Sav...

So I have met Son 2's girlfriend. I'll call her Beryl. Yesterday the two of them (Son 2 and Beryl) undertook the long drive from whe...

We just wrapped up our weekly Sangha Zoom meeting less than an hour ago. (This is the UU Sangha that I attended for years before COVID-19, ...

Over the weekend I visited my mother, and on Sunday we went out to a concert at the philharmonic in the big city nearby. I always enjoy visi...