So Part II. I didn’t get around to writing this post on the weekend I said I would. Luckily, my meditation practice (which I’ve been able to rigorously keep up) has brought me to a more Liberated space where I can procrastinate guilt free.
I did some Googling on Vipassana retreats in Taiwan and found this [...]

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This is me at the top of He Huan Shan last Tuesday. I was wet and cold. The plan was to meet up with some Taipei friends and camp at one of the parking lots up at the top. I arrived much earlier than the others’ ETA and took a fraction of a second to [...]

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Just pissing down again. It hasn’t stopped for days and apparently won’t for another week. Today was Commencement at our school. Out with the old in with the new. But it’s not really new, is it? Question of perspective. Is it possible to see with new eyes? My students, my kids, my wife? Sometimes for [...]

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2 months ago I posted a video on my teaching blog, with accompanying comprehension and opinion questions as an assignment. It’s a video about binlan girls, which I thought would generate the kind of discussion I only dream of from my 8th graders. It was a moderate success.
A few days ago I recieved an email [...]

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