Activities

Didn’t get a chance to read much in the papers today — but I feel some sympathy for Mark Sanford, adulterous governor of South California. It must be a painful and humiliating thing to be caught in an adulterous relationship when you’ve built your career in part on condemning other people’s sexual ethics. But he shows no signs of resigning his office, although he insisted that Bill Clinton resign his office for a similar sexual transgression. Maureen Dowd provides a breakdown of Sanford’s hypocrisy.

Tonight I have a chapter meeting (a meeting with fellow members of the Western Buddhist Order) using an online service called Tokbox that provides free videoconferencing. Our chapter members are in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Montana, and Washington. We’ll be continuing our study of the Bodhicharyavatara.

This is four members of my chapter: Varasuri, myself, Varada, and Priyamitra. Sunada was away.

I’ve been starting to think about an interview Tami Simon of Sounds True will be doing with me in about two weeks. It’s part of a series Tami’s calling “Insights From the Edge.” I feel more than a little out of my league being part of a series that includes Sharon Salzberg and Thich Nhat Hanh. It didn’t help to learn that Tami had thought of calling the series “Grill the Guru.”

It’s a little disturbing that when I try to click on “save” in WordPress to save a post I’ve been editing I get the following message: “Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page? The changes you made will be lost if you navigate away from this page.” I thought the point of “save” was to, well, save the changes I’d made, not to discard them. I guess it’s a bug.

I was delighted to stumble across this Onion Story — Search For Self Called Off After 38 Years — from a link in a NYT story on Catcher In the Rye’s unpopularity amongst young people.

On Sundays I look forward to reading Jan Freeman’s language column — The Word — in the Boston Globe. She’s pretty easy-going on language evolution and tends to check her facts. I prefer this to the “English as we know it is dying” school of thought.

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