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An Experimental Life for Birds on a Wire in Hydra, Crete and Vientiane in the 1960’s

The period of Leonard Cohen’s time in the summer of 1960 in Hydra, the Greek island, has gained the status of Greek mythology in his creative career.

After taking the five-hour boat journey from Pireus,  the Athens port, Leonard hung out in Hydra with a handful of other young artists and spiritual seekers, including Dr. Sheldon Cholst, a New York psychiatrist and poet, who experimented with marijuana, hash and LSD. It had cost Cholst his freedom in the UK where he spent 21 months in jail for being in possession.  I stayed with Sheldon in Vientiane, Laos in 1968. Back in the USA, his friend, Timothy Leary, got a 30-year sentence for possession. …

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Do you ever come across an author with an original mind? Try Jorge Luis Borges

Do you ever come across a brilliant,  and I mean a simply brilliant author, and wonder how one had missed for so many years such creative and imaginative writing? …

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E-books and the shrinking number of printed books

I received from my daughter for Christmas 2010 a Kindle that enables me to download as many as 3000 books. It has proved an invaluable resource. I have downloaded the Middle Length Discourses and Connected Discourses of the Buddha into the Kindle, plus other books and PDF files that prove very supportive for my travels as a Dharma teacher. …

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Recommended Books to Inspire a Memoir

In a blog a couple of weeks ago, I asked Facebook Friends for recommendations for books that were written in the first person, reflected a travel memoir or carried a depth and the poetic. I wrote that I planned to read some of the books to get into the flow of writing a memoir of 10 years in the East.  I mentioned some books that I had selected from my small library of books here at home to re-read. Title of these books were: …

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Dear Facebook Friends, Can you recommend a book?

Dear Facebook Friends

Can you help? I would appreciate it if you kindly recommend to me a certain type of book to read, either fiction or non-fiction. Let me give you the background so that you get the picture. …

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