Buddhist Archive

  • 72 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, “Silences”

    "A dog sits silent. Her gaze shafts up / in study of her master's face; / nostrils twitch and forelegs quiver - / she waits the crinkle of a smile, / the open hand that reaches down, / that turns her silence to a lick . . . ."

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  • 51 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, Two Poems

    "She stood short of the ford, / dainty footed, silken kimono / splashed red against the mud and autumn dun."

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  • Ride to the Sensoji Temple

    Today’s Ride to “Church” (=Sensoji Temple) comes to us from Emily: In May of this year, I had the opportunity to take a group of five 8th grade students on a trip to our sister school in Kagoshima, Japan.   I couldn’t help but make […]

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