Sunday, June 21, 2026

Not Even Not Zen 440: Biomythography - Note 146, In Common

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In Common I stepped through the doors, first in line. "Go on," said Roberta. The brown haired woman tilted her head to the stairs....
Sunday, June 14, 2026

Not Even Not Zen 439: Poem - A Line of Children

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A Line of Children  Gently, I eased my car past a line of children on a wide, white sidewalk in the city. Each of them held to a colored rop...
Sunday, June 7, 2026

Not Even Not Zen 438: Biomythography - Note 145, Getting the Job, Pt. 2

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Getting the Job, Pt. II My wife had needed a lot of support from me as she started her career. It took me four years of paying for her schoo...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Not Even Not Zen 437: Biomythography - Note 144, Getting the Job, Pt. 1

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Getting the Job, Part I  At the first interview, I felt good. I was satisfied and relaxed. The feeling came from having finished a long bout...
Sunday, May 24, 2026

Not Even Not Zen 436: Biomythography - Note 143, Parenting Languages

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Briefly, Foreign Languages   I have a clear memory of my father in the living room of our apartment in a German town (either Hamburg or Bitb...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

Not Even Not Zen 435: Biomythography - Note 142, Superstitions Pt. 3

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Superstitions, Part III "Ghosts?" snapped my grandfather. "What do you mean, ghosts?"  His family sat around their long,...
Sunday, May 10, 2026

Not Even Not Zen 434: Biomythography - Note 141, Superstitions Pt. 2

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  Superstitions, Part II Sometimes our ancestors don't seem to have known many names. In my mother's family, if a name wasn't tr...
Sunday, May 3, 2026

Not Even Not Zen 433: Biomythography - Note 140, Superstitions Pt. 1

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 Superstitions, Part I In the 1960s, adults took their superstitions seriously, at least in my neighborhood - even when they said they didn...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

Not Even Not Zen 432: The History of Love (as a Software Product)

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  The History of Love  (as a Software Product) In the 1980s and 1990s, software companies issued their software complete with a history of t...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Not Even Not Traveling 72: Hawaii - Did I Learn Anything?

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Almost Thinking During our many dinner discussions with other passengers, I was consistently surprised by how instructive other people's...