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I'm realizing that, as someone born in 1959, Rob Reiner was so ubiquitous in the culture around me, that he feels like extended family. I'm so sorry about their awful murder. And I also think about Nick, waking up one day sober and realizing what he did. Meth just sucks.

I'm just inactive enough here that I get 100% romance scam bot new followers, as opposed to the usual 50%.

I made it through my first day without the NYTimes without incident. The new sub price was just too high. I kept the games sub.

My weekly substack post. open.substack.com/pub/yudronwa...

I did a little thinking about my feeling that I have people with me everywhere I go. No, I am not being followed. Just a sense I am caring for an inner community. Here is the result: open.substack.com/pub/yudronwa...

I'm in a very old house with a wardrobe in each bedroom and I'm checking every single one of them for Narnia access because magic is everywhere and also I really need to get the hell away from these people

Fox News displaying a poll with the first age bracket for women and men being 15-44. Once again, 15 year olds are children. They are kids. They are not adults, they can’t consent to sex, and pedophilia must not be normalized.

Three cats, and Dharma books it's time to give away. The books, not the cats.

NEW: The White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation. “It was so offensive to what we’re all here to do, to uphold the law and protect the American people,” one official involved said.

Toesie is getting sleepy.

My favorite podcast right now is Tell Me What Happened. It portrays ordinary people who rise to the level of heroes in a sudden emergency.

“It’s like The Twilight Zone,” one CDC staffer says of the sudden shifts at the agency. Scientists vanish, truth gets censored, and the new boss thinks expertise is optional. Tune in as “Data” and “Evidence” are written out of the script. nymag.com/intelligence...

Republican leadership: Government shut down, little safety net to prevent people from starving, canceled travel because flights not flying.

Spiders consume 400–800 million tons of prey annually. With a biomass of 25 million tons, they could theoretically eat the equivalent of all humans in one year, based on global human biomass estimates.

Since my internal clock has had me up and working since way before dawn,11:15 AM is lunch and siesta time!

Three quarters of the pay through assembling an enormous #catio, my 25 year old Makita drill gave up the ghost. I forgive the company and am buying the modern version of the same brand!

It's 4:43 am and I'm wide awake drinking chai and about to launch into complete one of the week's big projects 7 am. Not virtuous, just on an "old lady's" biorhythm and couple of days after a time change.

I guess it is bedtime. They didn’t hear about the time change.

I'm assembling a large #catio on my deck for my three cats.

Verified. ✅ www.thedailybeast.com/serial-traff...

May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.

I broke a bone in my foot round Oct. 11. Only got an xray a few days ago. Now, I don't feel like walking on it very much. Ive shifted gears into "not doing nothing" mode... and I like it.

I've counted kitty noses, 1-2-3, and locked all the doors. It's time for season 3, episode 8 of Diplomat.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre the Epstein sexual victim, her book, Nobody's Girl, which only her brother and the publisher knows what is in it. Comes out Tuesday.

This president is unpopular.

Rally and march for No Kings in Modesto, CA. Still out there.

I've got a bruised foot, some little sciatica problem with my left hip, and allergies that kept me up most of the night. But I will show up and be counted for #nokings today. Please stand up for democracy today... even if it hurts.

Netflix's show Diplomat is like Madam Secretary noir.

Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

I spent the day fixing little typos in one of my books and re-uploading it to KDP and Ingram. Tomorrow I am going to add a shopping cart to my personal website to sell my books and audiobook directly. Maybe even a t-shirt! (A long procrastinated task with the reward of sticking it to the man.)

Californian here. Wondering for the first time in my life whether my red county will count my vote (for Prop 50.)

I bitched here a lot last winter about the process of making a homespun audiobook version of my book Clearing the Way to Awakening. I'm happy to report that I've sold enough of them to say it was worthwhile: 66. Two good reviews and verbal comments to me from listeners that my voicing was appealing.

Outside at sunrise, waiting for the porta potties to arrive for our small non-profit's annual retreat. Nice light on Buddha and Kwan Yin.

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The companion workbook to my book about the foundation practices of Tibetan Buddhism just dropped. Clearing the Way to Awakening Companion Workbook: Your Ngondro Journey a.co/d/eYmFVid

I'll be offering workshops about Dakini in the Catskills this weekend. It's beautiful and peaceful here. Care to join us?www.bodhivastu.org/events

What ever happened to the Libertarians? Where are they now?

Even the New York times is sounding alarmed these days about Trumps threats to silence liberals and progressives. Fascism is on the rise in the U.S. Let's be brave and strong together.

If today goes well, I will have my workbook available for presale online by 4 pm. I would prefer 10 am. I think it is ready, but I want to see a proof first. Just in case.

This is the southern approach to my town. I hardly know anyone here, but I love the natural world and the quiet.

I view myself as not very religious compared to other followers of Tibetan Buddhism. But anyone else would view me as extremely religious because of my faith in karma, rebirth, the bardos, the possibility of awakening with a capital A, and the power of the practices of Dzogchen. Nutcase right here.

Got called a do-gooding liberal by a leftist today, and it wasn't intended as a compliment.