Confession: I miss the blog. I miss doing stuff and then coming back, analysing, discussing and sharing; and then, on occasion, hearing back from someone about their response.
Don't get me wrong I also miss England, Germany, friends and travel. But I miss the blog.
So, at the risk of posting totally banal, really bloggy -"today my cat caught a bird "- sort of stuff I'm gonna try to post something of interest to someone somewhere each week (more often if possible). It may not always be either travel or pen related but I will try to do it at least once a week and make it as interesting as my humble existence permits. So here goes.
As always, let me know how I'm doing. E-mail works best, but I do check for comments.
I only just learned of the death of my friend Rabbi Alan Lew. For both Sharon and me the sense of loss is almost beyond words.
In rest may he be as much at peace as he was in life. Our friendship was only brief, we knew each other only for several years, but he touched me (and Sharon) profoundly as he touched all who knew him.
Alan Lew, former rabbi of a San Francisco congregation and well known in Bay Area Zen Buddhist circles, died Monday on a trip to the East Coast.
Lew, the author of the spiritual memoir “One God Clapping” and two other books, was regarded as an innovator for bringing meditation practices into Jewish spirituality.
He was a spiritual seeker in California during the late 1960s and early 70s, when he was exposed to Zen meditation for the first time. He went on to practice for several years at the Berkeley and San Francisco Zen Centers, but while preparing for lay ordination as a Buddhist, he had a crisis that led him instead to become a rabbi.
Alan Lew, former rabbi of a San Francisco congregation and well known in Bay Area Zen Buddhist circles, died Monday on a trip to the East Coast. 
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