33 posts tagged basho

For your nasty nasty feet May 14th, 2008 by The Naughty — Basho ooof, Culinary Ooof, Deadly Ginger ooof, Irish Don ooof, Metro-Neck ooof, Pet Ooof, The Dinky ooof, Travel Ooof Go to a Dr. Fish cafe. No Comments

Haiku, the 3-lined and 17-syllabled Japanese Verses are a True Reverence to Life, a fresh approach for us Western People, reminding us the Principle of the Mustard Seed, of the Grain of Sand, the wonder at Nature.

John Baso Pou SENAPATI, May 9: Many offices of the state government under the deputy commissioner Senapati district of Manipur have closed down while some staffs of other offices have stopped attending office or official works following a diktat from a faction of the NSCN.

Introduction Too often in practice it seems, like Hsiang-yen, we are just after more answers, as if getting the “right” answer to that “big” question will straighten out everything. Yet, staying with a question which has the power to stop the mind can transform a life.

We’re making the shareholders of Container Store a tad happier this quarter: It’s cardboard box time again. I don’t mind buying and folding and taping all these boxes. No, it’s selecting which items to put in those boxes that makes me feel as if time itself were something else to pack.

"It was in 1886 that the German pharmacologist, Ludwig Lewin, published the first systematic study of the cactus, to which his own name was subsequently given. Anhalonium Lewinii was new to science. To primitive religion and the Indians of Mexico and the American Southwest it was a friend of immemorially long standing.

Afternoon dwindles: the sky gathers birds flying to some unseen rest, the evening sun amasses on surfaces like condensation, as if the inner light of objects collected like dew. A life so infused—remembered, revealed—would drown desire at last. It can’t last— doors open to love’s return, the body of night.

Picture Moment : Sumo Wrestlers Fight April 13th, 2008 Sumo wrestlers fight during the Berlin-Basho Sumo Open tournament in Berlin, Germany, on April 12, 2008. Via Activate.us Technorati Tags: Berlin-Basho Sumo Open tournament, sumo

Thinking of this space as a ship, I wonder if I’m a passenger or cargo. Carried in any case, I consent to this craft, bow to another pilot. When I was young, I felt the earth traveling— a loose-wheeled wagon beneath me—and heard each shimmy and squeak as progress.

The gents at American Dust records have just released the first album by Matt Baldwin. I gave it a spin last night while eating a plum and staring longingly at the ceiling. First and foremost, Baldwin is a guitarist. And yes, before I go any further: comparisons to John Fahey and Leo Kottke are often tossed around wayyyyy too liberally to acoustic composers.