Tag Archives: love
Ryōan-ji Zen garden: 15 rocks and a 15 year marriage
As a young woman I thought a typical marriage was this: the wife thanklessly plows through endless chores while her husband, planted in front of a television, yells at a sports game as piles of empty beer cans rise up around him. I never wanted to be married. HOB and I met at a bookstore […]
Janacek doth suffer a sea-change
Janacek was a homely cat—with his mottled brown, gray, white and striped fur—not to mention clumsy, and rather lazy. They say pets resemble their people, so who knows; perhaps that’s why we picked him from the shelter, this cat who had been dropped off, adopted, and returned to the shelter a second time, before […]
I am loving you so hard, Santa María del Naranco
Hey everyone–meet my new girlfriend: This is Santa María del Naranco, also known as my girlfriend. (In case you were wondering, I also have a wife and a husband.) Santa María del Naranco was a summer palace built in the mid-9th century in the kingdom of Asturias, present day Oviedo. At the time, Asturias […]
