December 13, 2016
Featured Photo December 15

City Center courtyard maple leaf by Clare Hollander. Celebrating the rain and the end of autumn.


The hanging raindrops
Have not dried from the needles
Of the fir forest
Before the evening mist
Of Autumn rises.

— The Monk Jakuren (12th c. Japan; trans. by Kenneth Rexroth)

Features, For Mary Watson

Remembering Mary Watson

I want to invite us to be with Mary's spirit, because she really embodied compassion. When Blanche gave her the precepts, she gave her the name, Eyes of Compassion, Nurturing Teacher, and that's what Mary was.