Posts Tagged ‘home’

At the Suvannabhumi airport in Bangkok, waiting to board the first of my flights back to the West. This flight may mark the end of my residence in Suvannabhumi in general, as I begin to settle in my new North Hollywood environment. Thailand has been a great place, in retrospect, but I’m looking [...]

Cynicism sucks, really… I mean, if you’re always expecting the worst, you can’t ever really be happy, even when things turn out for the best. On the other hand, optimism doesn’t really accomplish anything useful either, since the optimist has little or no reason to effect real change in their life and tends to [...]

Buddhism is certainly the hardest pill to swallow. Everything about us screams out against the middle way, trying always to find some way to make things permanent, satisfying or controllable. We push and pull, trying to make things go our way, never realizing that we are but dust in the wind, tossed about [...]

A perennial favourite, this question.
Last year, I said I wasn’t going to stay at Wat Thai, any Wat Thai, and now here I am in Thailand about to go to a Wat Thai board meeting to talk about starting a meditation department at Wat Thai. See, they bought a piece of property near Wat [...]

Here it is; the next generation in meditation huts:

Just a little update, what I’ve been up to for the past three months with my weblog down, for those of you who haven’t been following me on Twitter or Facebook (my twitter links to my facebook; either one will get you the same info).
Apart from fighting off a ridiculous court case on false charges [...]

Today, I’m off to Grover Beach, San Luis Obispo County, California. Should nothing change for the drastic (no bets…), I’ll be spending the next three months in an apartment above a real estate agency and across from a Thai restaurant.
It’s a three-bedroom, full-floor abode (second floor), as seen in the following image:
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Cancel that, Houston. I’ve found a place in California to stay the rains-without-rain. A nice place with nice weather and nice people and a nice three-bedroom residence across the street from a nice Thai restaurant. Nice.
Impermanence should be my middle name; Herschell is a total misnomer.

All you needs a strong heart and a nerve of steel
Viva las vegas, viva las vegas
– Elvis Presley
Well, Elvis is right about one thing; enough about death. Time to live. I’ve got a place, of sorts, for the rains, and it happens to be a condominium in an upscale neighbourhood in Las Vegas [...]

Last night I slept in the closest thing I could call a home, the park I’m sitting in in the header of this weblog. It was the happiest night I’ve spent in a long time. I think there is far too little said about the life of a homeless person; the intense suffering [...]