Views & Interviews - Information

Welcome

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This is my new weblog and it replaces the current entries in my online journal at my home site, Views and Interviews. That site consists mainly of essays about Buddhism and philosophical topics. In addition it contains an interview with a Shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) master, and a section detailing the art and teaching of Bill Richards.

TypePad is much easier for me to use for journal entries than my home site. It's simpler to create entries, add photos, and manage the archives. However, I plan to continue to place my essays and any additional interviews I manage to do on my home site, while keeping the journal here. I'll also place excerpts of new essays here, and give some indication of new contents.

How to Get Around

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This weblog has a number of sections: blog entries, archives, comments, links, and photo albums. I'm not using all of them yet, but here's how to navigate. (I'm working on this section.)

1. Entries. If you come in to the main section, you can just scroll down through the current entries.

2. Photo Albums.

What's New

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New Items:

12/31/03 - Added a new photo album, Hudson Valley Countryside.

12/19/03 - New photographs were added to The Little Brick House Album.

[Updates to various parts of this weblog will be listed here, so you can just check here to see the latest. Of course new entries show at the top, but photos and such do not - thus this little helper.]

Snow

It's a year, just, since I posted an entry here - I have been focusing instead on my Buddhist blog.  Signs of spring have been appearing - the buds on our maple are beginning to show red, and cardinals and house thrushes are singing.  But now we've been hit with a real winter storm.

It was the same pattern last year but this is worse.  The storm - over a hundred miles wide - has been sitting on top of us since last Tuesday.  It finally appears to be dissipating somewhat, but it's still here.   We've escaped the worst so far, but in towns all around us and especially across the river, people are without power, trees are down, roads blocked.  Last night's news said that fully half of Central Hudson's customers were affected - more than 150,000 people.

This morning we're getting snow, rain, sleet, mist - it changes every ten minutes or so.  Here the temperature is just above freezing and so what comes down also melts.  I hope that's true elsewhere.  I've spent time on the phone checking up on friends and family - most are doing OK. 

In the larger picture, last night in Chile there was a huge earthquake - magnitude-8.8.  Chile is prone to quakes and evidently handles them very well so the loss of life won't get anywhere near that in Haiti a month ago.  There is a tsunami resulting from the quake - it's due to hit the Hawaiian islands about four hours from now - all the pacific islands are on alert.