Posted in Sailing on Jan 15th, 2010
If you’ve every dreamed of a quieter, simpler life – then this short story is for you. Though it’s a favourite among cruising sailors (for obvious reasons when you read it), Martyr’s story is really about the yearning all of us feel from time to time to be FREE.
Posted in Current Affairs on Jan 11th, 2010
Here’s a truly amazing story about a humpback whale watching us that was published in the New York Times in July of last year. It’s only two paragraphs long and appeared at the bottom of a long article by Charles Siebert about whale-human interactions. But it may give you pause to think. (A pdf of [...]
So much can change in just a few hours. That’s both the thrill and the challenge of sailing. There was no wind at all when I departed Lévi, across the river from Quebec city, soon after sunrise, so I motored against the sluggish incoming tide for a couple of hours. I was now confident, after the excellent [...]
Posted in Sailing on Jan 7th, 2010
Progress seldom comes in straight lines, and so it has proved throughout ‘Kuan Yin’s” 300- mile passage down the St. Lawrence river from Kingston to Quebec City. But, as in all such cases, there’s usually nothing to do but to meet each challenge as best one can and to keep going. No-one ever said it [...]
The voyage to Ungava has finally begun. After four months of long days and hard work refitting the boat in Toronto, “Kuan Yin” is at last heading for the salt waters of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Whether or not we reach Halifax, Nova Scotia, (more than 1000 miles from Toronto) or not before the winter [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Hermits, Hermits & Solitude on Jan 6th, 2010
The Hermit Fathers; The Spirit Born by Fr. Samaan El Souriany With all the strife in the Middle East today, it’s hard to remember that this was once the land of hermits and the founding centre of monasticism in the West. Upper Egypt (ie. southern) had cenobitic or communal monastics; lower Egypt had hermits such [...]
Posted in Hermits & Solitude, Solitude on Jan 3rd, 2010
In 1995, in one of my breaks from writing and travelling, I founded and built a retreat centre on a 90-acre farm in southern Ontario, Canada. Still Life Retreat was non-denominational, though the teachings of the Buddha inform my own way of life and practice. The intention of Still Life Retreat was support people in [...]
Posted in Book Reviews, Hermits, Hermits & Solitude on Jan 2nd, 2010
The Hermit Writings of S. These are a remarkable collection of short essays on many aspects of being a hermit – self-sufficiency, hermit and the world, love, time, urban eremitism, and virtue, for example. They are straight-forward, down to earth and direct. The writings are posted on the Hermitary website by Meng-hu. They are presented [...]
Posted in Hermits, Hermits & Solitude on Dec 27th, 2009
The Hermit Writings of S. are a collection of short essays on many aspects of being a hermit – self-sufficiency, hermit and the world, love, time, urban eremitism, and virtue, for example. They are straight-forward, down to earth and direct. “We cannot give up the world and then expect the world to do anything for [...]
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