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About Armchair Zen | Armchair Zen

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Observations from the soft chair. Treading lightly the path to enlightenment. This blog is written so you can read it like a book. Call it a blook. Every post is a standalone entry, like a page out of a poetry or motivational book. There is no chronology to follow, so the posts needn’t be read in order. Each post is a poem or a Zen Observation from The Soft Chair. Pop around at will, and enjoy the read. Here are some basic tenets:. Humans are inherently curious, and have desire for knowledge and understa...

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Brave New World | Armchair Zen

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Observations from the soft chair. Treading lightly the path to enlightenment. March 27, 2015. These days I seek to simplify. Like Thoreau at Walden, I’m not entirely removed from my local world, but surrounded by it. I see people, the masses, by and large, hurling themselves daily through a Brave New World, in many ways unrecognizable from the world of my youth, a brief half-century ago. Mom was standing by for rescue. When you waited for the first day of school or a birthday to get new clothes {those po...

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The Gentleman May Be Excused | Armchair Zen

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Observations from the soft chair. Treading lightly the path to enlightenment. The Gentleman May Be Excused. March 3, 2015. I don’t claim to have multiple personality disorder, but there seems to be several of me inside my head. In ACZ, we talk about You. Your conscious and active brain deals regularly with You2. In fact, the decision-making process in your brain is actually a debate between You and You2. How is a decision made? What makes us stop and assess? 8221; This sparring will take place on a scale...

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The Test | Armchair Zen

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Observations from the soft chair. Treading lightly the path to enlightenment. March 20, 2015. Remind me why we do this. Humans love a challenge. Throw down a gauntlet, and someone will step right up. A few hundred years ago there were great challenges to be embarked upon. The Northwest Passage, circumnavigation of the globe, settling the wild frontier of the New World, establishing the Oregon Trail, climbing to the summit of Everest, building the transcontinental railroad. There’s also the cold, an...

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Longing for sparrows | Armchair Zen

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Observations from the soft chair. Treading lightly the path to enlightenment. May 14, 2015. We had a facelift done to our building, and it looks real nice. Unfortunately, it covered the 80 year old wood construction that previously existed. Why unfortunate, you say? I don’t know, but I hope they get the idea and move on before the season has passed them. The sparrows, on the other hand, barely blinked an eye before moving on to the next opportunity. And the new vinyl siding on the underside of the soffit...

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As Bob Lies Dying | Armchair Zen

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Observations from the soft chair. Treading lightly the path to enlightenment. As Bob Lies Dying. February 11, 2015. My brother-in-law, my sister’s husband, is dying from cancer. My Sisters, circa 1970. There are lots of details of how it started five years ago with a simple skin cancer. Treatments. Recurrence. Spreading. Treatments. Now he is leaving the hospital after his kidneys began to fail. He’s going home, to finish his journey “on his own terms”, as my nephew, his son, states. He was cantankerous,...

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Observations from the soft chair | Armchair Zen | Treading lightly the path to enlightenment.

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Observations from the soft chair. Treading lightly the path to enlightenment. August 17, 2016. Little Bit on the Cape. We build these castles of sand. With those we love,. With our favorite companions,. Though we know our constructs are to be. Reclaimed by the tide,. The feet of passing children,. The paws of the joggers’ dogs. The joy is in the building. Observations from the soft chair. August 12, 2016. One of the greatest joys and comforts of life. Is to have someone you trust implicitly. Many people ...

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A Wild Life | Armchair Zen

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Observations from the soft chair. Treading lightly the path to enlightenment. May 5, 2015. Out in the real world, the natural world, things carry on, day in and day out, without machines and modern conveniences. What are crows doing while we check the clock to be on time for a meeting? What is the coyote’s “lunch time”? Where are the owls during the day? Be killed by others. Sometimes you’ll simply hand them paper earned by labor, and the score is settled. Too fast for you. Treks into the wood with the f...

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Tuesday, 5:52 | Armchair Zen

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Observations from the soft chair. Treading lightly the path to enlightenment. February 4, 2015. Tuesday, 5:52 pm. Maybe we have the jump on them because we use the am/pm nomenclature so often.”. Starting again to write a blog post. Someone in a hurry passes another car on State Highway 7. He’s crowding the oncoming traffic and someone in a white Jeep starts to swerve. To avoid a head-on crash. “Why would you pull left? Be at peace,. Observations from the soft chair. As Bob Lies Dying. Tuesday, 5:52" (3).