The Moving Finger writes; and having writ Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears ...

Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine -- they are the life, the soul of reading... -Laurence Stern, Tristram Shandy There are better ...

We know that all is impermanent; we know that everything wears out. Although we can buy this truth intellectually, emotionally we have a dee...

Detachment is enlightenment because it negates appearances. - Bodhidharma, The Wake Up Sermon When I started this leg of the trip a few week...