today is a brilliant, crisp, and wholly beauteous day. there is a slight chill in the air, indication of change and inclement weather. my neck tells me it will rain on sunday, for Rinpoche’s teaching. hrm.

very likely the most beautiful image i have encountered. i found it (well, a very poorly reproduced version thereof) some months ago and had just about exhausted myself trying to find a high fidelity version of the original.

it is said the tathagata makes use of all things, and to the unenlightened mind, such a one seems to be no different than any other. the more i think on that, and the more i think on the nature of mind, the more profound that seems to me.

today’s thought — the true nature of another may be found in their face.

the last month and a half have been something of a quantum leap here.

someone wrote about having regrets for their poor choices and mistakes in relation to others. they said they see themselves do these things, but somehow, can’t manage to regret it until much later. got me to thinking.

this, a conversation carried from another place, had me speaking to another with regard to how i began to discover certain things of ‘self’ and ‘ego’ and ‘pride’ and how to recognize when they were impeding me.

walking out the door, the cats are chasing one another. they run through the kitchen and i hear a decidedly un-cat-like noise. a splat. a splat as in the sound of racing paws striking water. not good.

this, written to another, seems a thing i would do well to remember myself. pressing it into wax.

it’s official. i am an ascap member. woohoo. just got the card today. look out world. duck and cover. it’s showtime.