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Dear Folks, October 20, 1987
Dear Folks, Here I sit before the same little old McIntosh computer, set upon the same pine desk that John Zimmer made me, with the same piles of unfiled papers in the background, under the serene gaze of the same imperturbable Buddha that Chirapol Sintunawa gave me (the Buddha sits on top of the computer and reminds me to Type the [...]
Dear Folks:September 21, 1987
Dear Folks, My mind feels like a logjam. So many things are bursting to get out and be told that I don’t know where to start, so nothing comes out, so I spin my wheels. Let’s see, how to create order here? Maybe by listing topics first, to be sure I don’t forget any. Then I can start on one thing [...]
Dear Folks: August 16, 1987
The First Day of the Harmonic Convergence
Dear Folks,
Oh, it is the most spectacular weather, the best weather of the year, the cool Canadian high of August, with a little hint of fall. The light is just about gone from the sky this evening, and out my window Mount Ascutney looks almost close enough to touch. The sky is impeccably clear. [...]
Dear Folks: July 19, 1987
Dear Folks,
It’s Sunday morning, bright and clear, fairly warm but not as bad as the pressure cooker we were living in all last week.
Last week we had a rare Bermuda High, sweeping air from the southeast up to us relentlessly for five straight days. Southeast of us is a large ocean, of course, and also the biggest megalopolis in the [...]
Dear Folks: June 21, 1987
Dear Folks,
Ah, June! This is the time when we remember why we endure five months of winter to live here. Everything is overwhelmingly green, the birds are singing, the air is sweet, the salads are beginning to flow in from the garden. Fresh young dill. It’s worth at least one month of winter just for the fresh dill. And spinach [...]
