Dear Friends, I recently returned from lovely long weekend at a friend’s cabin on an island off the grid in Canada. Before I left, I was feeling stretched pretty thin with many different activities, travel, guests, and the resurgence of one of our adult child’s life challenges. I looked forward to cabin time, surrounded by beautiful blue lake, the sound of loons...
Read MoreI recently learned the sanskrit word for bowl, patra. During the Buddha's time, monks and nuns took their patra on alms rounds.
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