March 18, 2026

El Capitan Mirror in Merced River — Yosemite National Park, California

This gives me 13 eBooks on Amazon Kindle, and each one is going to be the last one from here on out. I will be interested to see what that number comes to. And the hoot is that I have never written any of them in terms of banging away, working hard at it. I just show up and start writing. Each book has written itself. So, I don’t charge much for them. They came to me for nothing, may as well go from me for nothing.

Writing these last three books on Zen Thoughts has helped me see, understand, know Zen better than I did when I started. Trying to say what we mean helps us to understand what we are attempting to say a lot clearer than when we started.

The main thing I came away with about Zen is the result of being who we are. The closer we live to express, exhibit, be who we are, moment to moment, in each situation as it arises, the more Zen like we are without having to jump through any hoops, or take up any special practices. We just live our life exactly as we would live them and let that be that. Lao Tzu couldn’t do it better. Neither could the Buddha.

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I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

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