I guess you just can't escape them, because they serve one purpose or another or still another. They're everywhere. Letters and numbers. Seemingly every place you can think of, you and I are constantly surrounded by couplings of letters and numbers. Where's the first place you look?

That's a highly subjective question, of course, but you really don't have to go far. Room numbers in middle schools and high schools (A101, B205, for two examples), parking...

This has been the weirdest summer I can ever remember. It came early this year, no spring to speak of, just winter and then overwhelming heat.

So many forest fires all at once. The air was so bad from the burning that people with breathing problems were told to stay inside and use air conditioning. So that's what I did and now my utility bill is so high I don't know how we will pay it. That plus the unending heat, record-breaking temperatures for days on end. In attempting to stay...

Apparently from this email from Chögyam Trungpa's quotes (below), there's a reason why this year has been such a challenge for me (as I am trying to achieve spiritual salvation through my Mindfulness Practice). I'm just too danged ambitious.

(But I was raised that way! )

So, does this mean that all the homeless people out there that have grown to accept their state are spiritually awakened? Maybe only if they no longer struggle with the idea.
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Well today is the day. A year ago on this day I met him for the first time. We had been talking to one another for almost a month prior and this was the day.

It was a Sunday morning and I got up early, getting ready for his arrival. I didn't do anything special, he was going to get the me that I am. It was about 7 in the morning when he got there and I was not nervous until the very last minute. The minute that he called me to tell me he was there, and I had to open the door...