My biographers (and biographers of lesser beings of the 21st Century) should note that the publication date of blogger blogs are falsifiable. In my case I have falsified them in order to make them correct, if I may put it that way.

I certainly wouldn't assume Proverbs. I still expect Genesis, the New Testament, and the greatest-hit psalms, but even that may be expecting too much.

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I’m really not at all sure what the enterprise of meditation is, for a lapsed Buddhist and not-really-Christian and pilferer of hozho; but it appears to be the correct one.

Bonus points if you can identify the quotation from Faulker :-)

"I am halfway through the holiday rapids. Shoot Christmas successfully, my lord, and we arrive in the calm water of January."

It is the prayer against gluttony, and the gist of it is: am I to be on my own side or not? Am I going to support myself or let myself down?

The very most helpful practice text for me is my own goddamn blog. I have been thinking the same goddamn thoughts for twenty years. Probably forty, but the blog doesn’t go back that far.

Man, I am so out of touch with these things! I didn't even know this edition existed. But it turns out my local bookstore has it!