Audience with Buddha
By ice rivers
Now that we've blasted past 1000, let's see if we can get 25 cherries in the next 100 posts on this new collection.
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Audience
Who's your audience, Ice? I'm glad I asked. Let's start with you, the current reader. You're here so far and I'm glad you're here. I don't know how...
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Toy Boat
Is a bet a question? My father was always challenging me with bets, usually to get me to work harder or to work at all. I always fell for it. The...
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An Innerview in Response to an Inspiration
Why do I write? I was thinking about co-ordination and confidence. Writing is about the co-ordination of putting letters together that form thoughts...
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My Time With the Ring
Since today I'm as young as I'm gonna get, I want to talk about the gift of growing older. I'm an original baby boomer born almost exactly nine...
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Matching Heirloom One
Every child is born into a new family. The family that I was born into had no other children. I was gonna turn out to be either an only child or a...
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Matchless Matchbook (Heirloom 2)
Amidst the dozens of matchbook front covers, top folds (saddles) and back covers neatly adhesed to the pages of the catalogue, there was an ironic...
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Heirloom 3...Closing the Catalogue
We never know when we're gonna put away childish things. The last time that I opened the catalogue was the day that I showed Johnny the book. I think...
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Matchless Catalogue 3106 SB
Every child is born into a new family. The family that I was born into had no other children. I was gonna turn out to be either an only child or a...
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We're Having a Heat Wave
Marilyn Monroe was not popular with the Sisters of Mercy. The Legion of Decency which rated movies according to their "morality" made it a sin to see...
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The Womb and the Wave
I was born in the 20th century and spent at least 55 years there. I was young, enthusiastic and hopeful. By the end of the century I was at my peak...
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Drunk, Naked and Enraged
Drunk, naked and enraged...Haylen pointed her gun at Stingray and said "get down on your hands and knees you son of a bitch......." Henri LaPlumer,...
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King of Contradiction
"root, root, root for the home team, if they don't win it's a shame" When I first started watching football, the only New York team was the Giants...
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Internal Workings
So I have a flat polyp on my colon. It could not be removed during the colonoscopy. My gastroentologist suspected cancer. He sent me to a surgeon...
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Rally Round
Cat and Murph taught me to play rally round. We had just got done playing Euchre. During that "game", I had lost my spending money for the week. I...
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Rally Round Part Two
You've already taken the first steps towards becoming a teacher of Rally Round. You've played at least two games and won them both. You are beginning...
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FromSlaunter to Trudge to Stride
As so often happens, an uptick in technology produces a change in behavior. My new souped up Apple watch which keeps track of everything has arrived...
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Jim Woke Haylen
Haylen was woke by Jim. They had survived several acid trips together with Jim serving as guide, which in alcoholic terms is equivalent to designated...
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Am I a Writer?
Am I a writer? I am right now because I'm writing. Do my thousands of stories qualify me as a writer? Right now they do because I'm writing right now...
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Waiting
Whole lot of waiting goin' on. A couple days ago, we went to see the Bills play against the Panthers in downtown Charlotte. Neither team has ever won...
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Anniversary Bingo
We celebrated our 33rd wedding anniversary yesterday. Who knew we would spend it in a senior center walking the indoor track and doing yoga? I guess...
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Shaking My Claim
Claiming that I'm good at being married is like a recovering alcoholic saying that he/she is good at not drinking. I was good yesterday and have been...
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Thriving in Tongues
My father in law Tom was a man ahead of his time. He paid the price for that foresight. His ideas had a way of fizzling out just before some other...
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Another BangBang Zap Mourning Morning
All change implies loss and all loss required mourning. What does mourning require? Mourning requires remembering. Last week, I lost another friend...
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All That I'm Saying
Damn! I forgot everything that happened before I was born. Apparently, a lot happened. In order to refresh my memory, I read history, watch movies,...
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Safe Place
I was heading to a wedding. I had my trusty Yashica SLR with me. I approached an area that I had passed a hundred times but never before noticed. For...
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Well Hello Donald
What me worry? Socrates according to Plato according to Krell described the decline of society just before he was executed....that's Socrates who...
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In and Out of Scarlet Woods
In and Out of the Scarlet Woods Nobody saw them come out of the woods. Nobody saw them enter the woods. Nobody knew what went down in the woods...
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The Wisdom of Didion
Inaction is the opposite of action. I have become a man of inaction which begs the question, does writing qualify as action? What is writing anyway;...
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Real Time Calm
This is real time. He's heading toward us. We hope to God he isn't heading at us. He already savaged Puerto Rico made his way East and then ripped...
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Summarizing Summaries and Finding Treasure
We forget 90% of what we read within 24 hours. Then over the next week we forget 90% of that 10%. 10 years after reading Moby Dick, we might recall...
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Disputin' Putin
The motivation of Putin's desire to devour Ukraine regardless of cost is perfectly self-evident. The desire is evident to Putin himself and nobody...
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Dolby Smile Review
So we headed to the mall to see Smile.. .. Lynn bought tickets for Dolby in advance. When we picked up our ducats, we asked the concessionaire if he...
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Norge
We called him Norge because he resembled a refrigerator topped with a failed pompadour. His real name was George. He kinda just stood there. He was...
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Mr Hyde's Pad
What is a novel? Let's say that a novel is nothing more than a padded short story. Call of the Wild, The Red Pony , Heart of Darkness, The Pearl ,...
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Okay OctoMan
Next week, Joe Biden will turn 80 years old. Congratulations Joe. What a life. A life full of triumph and tragedy and meaningful service to our...
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Okay; I'll help myself
Thank God for all the self help books we read. Who knows where we'd be if we hadn't helped ourselves to those servings. We're a kinder, more...
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Familiar Strangers From Empty Lobbies
Who are these strangers Emerging in our dreams? They are the folks we would have met Maybe even should have met Had we taken a more or less Frosty...
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Three Shots and a Bump
Lynn and I arrived at the senior center 30 minutes before the beginning of our chair yoga class. Chair yoga takes up half of the gym. Above the gym...
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Integrity or Lack of Same
To integrate is the ability to combine components into a single congrous whole. Integration of this nature is only fully achievable in mathematics...
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Sunday Afternoon Integrity
Let's face it, millions if not billions of dollars are wagered every Sunday in the NFL. Neither the players nor anyone in the front office are...
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An Audience with Buddha
My search for the wisdom of Buddha had been long and perilous. I finally got my audience in a strange place. The senior center had arranged a field...
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Quotation Marks
When I was just a lad of ten and first learning how to write, I had my first collision with quotation marks. I had written something in which I...
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More Quotation Remarks
Every direct quote is something that somebody said. When we identify the speaker and the way in which they spoke, that identification is known as a...
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Dialogue Tags (A bluesy conversation between Haylen and Jeremiah)
Sometimes when I listen to blues guitar, I can hear the wordless conversation that is going down and it sounds something like this
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A Sigh Of Relief
There was no red wave. I read this as an indication that our country is regaining some semblance of sanity. Perhaps the Dems are out of touch with...
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Remember Georgia Smith
Georgia Smith from Middlesboro, Kentucky would be a hundred and one years old today and she would still be obscure even though she was responsible...
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Flying Chaucer
When I hear the adjective 'English', one of the first nouns that comes to my mind is 'literature'. When I think of English literature, the first...
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Immaculate Conception and Metaphysiction
My mother was born on Christmas. Her name was Mary. Mary was also the name of her mother, my grandmother. Mary is the name of my daughter as well as...
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Sunday on Point (etc)
It's the idea that floats in first Like water, like fire, like earth Like cold, like Mars, like thirst Like Edison and Benjamin at inspiration point...
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Twigs to Sticks To Fire
Long last let go of your repression Repaint the black dog, unbag the white cat Stop buying the phony cures for depression Just remember all of this...
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Thank You Sister
Tonight I am remembering my kindergarten teacher in retrospect perhaps the most significant teacher of my lifetime. Kindergarten inspired me to "like...
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No More Phone Snob Me
Kodak is in shambles today. Once upon a time Kodak employed 150,00 Rochesterians. Christmas was a high time in Rochester because everybody got their...
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Whaddya Expect?
Yikes! I just found out that the life expectation for Americans is now 76.4 years. We'vde lost seven months in the last year. I'm in the forefront of...
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Fourth person at the Party
I suggest that we add a fourth person to the party and third person Krell agrees with me. The first person is the speaker generally known as I. The...
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Christmas Lightbulb
I usually go with whatever scant natural light is in a room. I'll be sitting in that naturally lit room when someone else will enter the room and...
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Nobody Writes Again
I'm a nobody amongst many. I write alone sometimes with a mask. Nobody starts out trying to be a writer. They just begin writing and keep writing and...
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Something Wrong In the Scary House
When we were making up our mind whether we were predator or prey, we gradually learned that the big cats that we were competing with had much better...
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Cameron
On my birthday we went to see Avatar (The Way of Water). I cant recommend higher. It's already made a billion dollars at the box office on its way to...
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Whaddya Call That Restaurant?
What is about to emerge is an exercise of memory in pursuit of an aha moment on the other side of a mental block interrupted by a call from my...
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Louixe and Leox Lemming
Louixe Lemming was concerned about her son. Leox Lemming had beens showing undeniable signs of independence and self-reliance. Louixe had had just...
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2023 A Trustworthy Liar
Now it's time again for the liar dilemma. I'm a liar. This isn't me writing this piece. This is Jasper. Jasper is an artificial intelligence. Jasper...
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Calling Casper and Crown
Forget about Jasper, I'm going with Casper the friendly ghost writer. I don't need Jasper imitating me when I can do a damn fine job of imitating...
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To Hire Jasper or Paladin
If I were to engage either Casper or Jasper, I would want to test them first. It's pretty clear that Ice has a great appreciation for Richard Boone...
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Jasper's Vigil 2
After riding non stop through rugged mountains, the hungover Paladin picks a place to camp. Adelle asks Paladin if he's "too tired to continue."...
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Vigil 3
Deke wonders if Paladin is accusing them of foul play. Reamer takes clear offense. Paldan insists that it is no private interest to him whether or...
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A New Plan
We interrupt our irregularly scheduled writing for some breaking news on the current gastroentological dilemma. Having grown concerned with the...
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Charley and Chautauqua
Who knew that I would be good at asking people for money. I was a natural at rapport building and connecting through rapport. I wasn't afraid to ask...
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Donating Paulpaula
Although my mystery polyp was not clearly identified, I had named it Paulpaula as I didn't know whether. it was male or female. Going into my third...
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Happy Birthday Vin
My father was born 102 years ago today. My body is about to undergo a robot insurgency based on the recommendation of gastroentologist Dr. Matthews...
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Late for Inspiration; On Time For Love
I haven't written about filler for quite some time. Filler is neither good nor bad, only a matter of philosophy. To review, filler is another term...
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End of the Vigil.
The next morning Paladin awakens with further suspicioon. He wakes up Deke because he still wants to see that arrow. Paladin wants to make sure that...
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Premature Publication
As prolific as I am, I often sacrifice quality for excitement and expediency. Here's what I'm talking about. I have fifteen minutes to create this...
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