Indianola, Washington

First picture from my new camera. A Canon SD800. It is a great camera. I followed the advice of Ken Rockwell and picked the SD800 over the SD700. Thanks Ken.

Also my first sesshin. It was a time. The people were great, the food was great, the weather was great (really stormy) and the facilities was so-so. Best of all the quiet time put me in a centered place. When we were done, I was ask by several people if I had any problems sitting for so long. “No. No more than usual.” Is a sesshin hard? “No. If you can sit for 25 minutes, you can sit for a whole sesshin.” (A sesshin is made of a lot of 25 minute sits all strung together with a 5 minute walking meditation interspersed (108 - 25 minute sits in 7 days). Now I’m preparing for a little shorter retreat in Spokane. This one will only be five day and will have longer rest periods and longer work periods. Yahoo!!