Do you ever have the urge to write but really do not have anything pertinent to say? Do you ever feel like you should be doing something but the one thing that is making you happy is doing nothing?

This picture is of some friends I met at a retreat outside of Nagpur, India in Feb 07.

On Thursday I'm leaving for New York to the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center with my friend Derek. I'm looking forward to a week of practice, solitude, work and breathing! Derek has been working with the centers teachers Venerable Khenpo Palden Sherab Rinpoche and Venerable Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche on their food service for retreats. They have asked Derek to start traveling with them to provide food at their off site retreats. It looks like we will be traveling to Florida in January for a 7 day retreat. Where the goal will to be create fresh vegatarian fare for 120 people at a budget of $5 per person.

I just bought a Hank Williams 3 CD, yes the grandson of Hank Williams Sr. He is an outlaw and pens songs like Trashville a song about how lame and cheap Nashville has become "they don't care about the music, you see" he growls.... http://www.hank3.com/ I don't believe Hank3 is a Buddhist but maybe an Anarchist? I like him!