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Hi, Everyone.

My Substack is new. If you're curious about Buddhism, or are into the Lotus Sutra, please like this note, leave a comment, and/or subscribe.

Near the end of my About page, I explain why starting my Substack helped dig me out of bipolar 2 depression:

I read the story of Zacchaeus to my son last night.

He asked me what taxes are, and I told them that’s something we pay to the government. He asked me what the government was, and I told him that’s the organization in charge of America, and I pointed to a map of the USA on his wall.

I asked him, “Do you know who the president is?”

He said, “No.”

So I told him, “It’s a guy named Donald Trump.”

And Ezra said, “That’s almost like Donald Trumpet.”

TGIF

you have never had an original thought.

and you never will.

but this is not an insult. it’s a gift.

the mind is a collector, a curator, a weaver of threads that existed before you.

your originality is not in what you think, but in how you combine, twist, and breathe life into what has already been known.

you are an instrument, not a source.

play your song.

Gracias a Dios me acaba de contactar la agencia migratoria ICE para informarme que esta noche van a soltar al joven migrante a quien le pague la fianza esta mañana 🙏 Así que ahora estoy a punto de partir hacia el centro de detención para recogerlo y llevarlo con su familia… Que alegría que después de 3 semanas detenido finalmente estará con su madre en libertad nuevamente ❤️