Having a personal website or blog has felt pointless for over a decade. The internet is full of thirty years of flotsam and jetsam and the sheer volume of data has become intractable. Search engines don’t work any more. The only way to find relevant content is looking at what people tend to click on. Unfortunately, the strongest drivers of clicks are fear and desire for social standing. I don’t offer either of those things so I have no expectations of traffic. The little bit of monitoring I do is for security.

So why blog?

• We need more free, human-generated content on the Internet.
• To create as an antidote to consuming.
• Sharing my return to more active Buddhist practice might help someone else along their own path.

Who am I?

I’m a GenX netizen who has watched the Internet grow from the ground up. I’m a bioinformatician in my day job. Outside work I have an ever-changing panoply of hobbies and interests, some of which may appear at various times on this blog. They include Irish music, English handbells, fountain pens, and fiber arts, but are subject to change on a whim.

On Zen

My Sōtō Zen practice is in the lineage of the White Plum Asanga, founded by Maezumi Roshi and Bernie Glassman. I’m not a teacher so if you’re looking for formal “qualifications” you’re in the wrong place. All I have to offer is personal perspective from twenty-odd years of Buddhist practice. Very little of it was Zen. Teaching isn’t the point of this blog though. I simply write from a place of constantly evolving, earnest practice. That’s all any of us has anyway.