First day of school
September 1, 2015 — first day of school for first graders. I had a great time with my cousins and friends.
Daniel Tigers
My drawing — Daniel Tigers with his mom, dad, baby sister and friends
Sophorn Nou’s memorial service
Inside the Glory Buddhist temple in Lowell, MA — getting ready for Sophorn Nou’s funeral service on Tuesday November 17, 2017. Sophorn Nou passed away on November 11, 2015, age 34.
Love as unconditionally as a dog
The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog. ~M.K. Clinton
Venerable Dong Hem, age 95 just passed away
Venerable Dong Hem, a 95-year-old Khmer Buddhist monk passed away in Cambodia on November 23, 2015 at 1 p.m.
Kathin festival at the Meditation center
Kathin festival at the Buddhist meditation center in Leverett, Massachusetts on November 7, 2015.
A grandfather has the wisdom…
A grandfather has the wisdom of long experience and the love of an understanding heart. ~Author Unknown
Love that has no ending
Grandpa has ears that truly listen, arms that always hold, love that has no ending and a heart that’s made of gold. ~Author Unknown
My best cousin the world
A drawing of me and my best cousin the world.
Forever friends
Cousins are those childhood playmates who grow up to be forever friends. ~Author Unknown
Three things in human life are important
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind. ~ Henry James
A grandmother…
A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television. ~Author Unknown
This life is yours
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. ~Susan Polis Schutz
Apples are the fruit of apple trees
Apples are the fruit of apple trees and are one of the most widely grown tree fruit. Millions of tonnes of apples are grown every year. There are thousands of different varieties of apples including Fuji, Gala, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Pink Lady and Granny Smith. Source: Science Kids
Good friends…
Good friends help you find important things when you have lost them. Your smile, you hope, and your courage. There are some people in life that make you laugh a little louder, smile a little bigger, and live just a little bit better. ~Author Unknown
Spiritual practice
If we cannot be happy in spite of our difficulties, what good is our spiritual practice? ~ Maha Ghosananda
Great compassion
Great compassion makes a peaceful heart.
A peaceful heart makes a peaceful person.
A peaceful person makes a peaceful family.
A peaceful family makes a peaceful community.
A peaceful community makes a peaceful nation.
A peaceful nation makes a peaceful world.
~Maha Ghosananda
We Buddhists must find the courage
We Buddhists must find the courage to leave our temples and enter the temples of the human experience,
the temples that are filled with suffering.
If we listen to the Buddha, Christ, Gandhi, we can do nothing less.
The refugee camps, the prisons. the ghettos, and the battlefields then become our temples.
We have so much work to do.
~Maha Ghosananda
Halloween wraps fear in innocence
Halloween wraps fear in innocence,
As though it were a slightly sour sweet.
Let terror, then, be turned into a treat…
~Nicholas Gordon
Trick-or-treating with my cousin