bodhi tree swaying

In the morning we went to the funky home of the ever-generous Danakamala, where we socialized and ate delicious food. There were a couple of other girls there, so Maia had a great time. So did I, for that matter. The smoky night club look is an artifact of the very snowy weather — there was light streaming in the windows.

In the afternoon I went to Aryaloka and led a guided meditation for about 20 people, towards the end of the Meditate for Peace Day. The morning apparently was busier, with 45 people in the shrine-room. This picture was actually taken in order to show someone how to use a scarf in order to take the weight off of the shoulders when meditating. I wasn’t really meditating at the time, hence the “pole up …

My wife and I love watching Friends, all ten seasons of which we have on DVD. Apart from the somewhat weaker 10th season it was generally hilarious and sometimes very touching.

Anyway, I’ve often wondered what the business at the corner of Grove and Bedford, where the Friends apartment is supposed to be situated, is. Google, as usual, came to the aid of my curiosity. From Google Maps’ “Street View” it seems it’s a restaurant called “The Little Owl.”

What surprised me was that the restaurant’s website doesn’t make any mention of the TV show. Maybe it’s too upmarket an eatery for that, but I’d have expected that corner to have been a pilgrimage site for the show’s millions of fans. In fact my visit to Google maps was in itself a kind of virtual pilgrimage.

(I warn you, if you visit the Little Owl’s …