We also planted 5 chestnuts trees - so in 3 years time, we all should be back to taste the fruits of hard work! The morning started with a very crisp - 10 degrees! Jan 8 and 9.

My studies of Esoteric Buddhism and Eastern philosophies. I wanted to post this from SRV. Lex Hixon was my Sufi Sheikh and in my view a living Bodhisattva. Sadly, he left this plane way too soon. It has been twelve years but he is still missed by many. Now over 700 years have passed since Zhou succeeded the Yin and more than 2000 since the Xia.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,. Dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,. Angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,. With dreams, with drugs, with waking nightmares, alcohol and cock and endless balls,.