Legacy blog for A Different Kind of Luxury, now The Abundance of Less

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Friday, January 27, 2017

Big News! One of the people profiled in A Different Kind of Luxury coming to US

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BEYOND PLUNDER:   LEAVING BEHIND THE MYTH THAT LEADS US TO WAR AND ECOLOGICAL DISASTER  An evening with filmmaker, philosopher and write...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

A brand new edition is coming. We need your support.

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Great news! A Different Kind of Luxury , out of print for more than a year, has been accepted for publication with North Atlantic Books, i...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Climate change and A Different Kind of Luxury

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Keep Wanting More Think about it: 7 billion plus people on the planet.  Each with a yearning to fulfill basic needs: food, shelter, heat,...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Beautiful Images from A Different Kind of Luxury

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I have always loved the beauty of these people's lives.  This is often reflected in the external beauty of their artwork or the pl...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

A Year Since the Death of Gufu Watanabe

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This has been hard to write, so I am finally able to tell you all that Gufu is gone.  He was a fine human being and he deeply affected my l...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

"It's all Buddha" Zen Abbot Takaoka on Death

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A short talk with Abbot Shucho Takaoka on his work during funerals.  I had just seen the movie Departures, which I recommen...
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Film screening of Masanori Oe's movies in Santa Cruz, Sat Mar 8, 7PM

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I will be offering a free film screening of a few short experimental movies made in 1967 and 1968 by Masanori Oe, who I profiled in Chapter...
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is the author of Writing Open The Mind: Tapping the Subconscious to Free the Writing and the Writer. He has written for Adbusters, the MIT press, The Oakland Tribune, Kyoto Journal, Creative Non-Fiction, The Japan Times, and The North American Review. He has taught writing at Cal. State University, Hayward and JFK University. He currently runs a center for courses in Writing, The Opening
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