Handing Over

It's been a while since I left town - this long in fact - so I am pretty excited about taking a couple of weeks off to go on holiday, and continuing the theme of familiarising myself with all things American, I am setting out to see parts of California I have not managed to see in eleven years: Yosemite - snow and all, with the unseasonable weather - King's Canyon, and hopefully, Death Valley and the eastern Sierras. And yes, I am bringing my bike with me.
I like to say it is taking four people to replace me, but as one of them points out, that is four people who already have full-time jobs at Zen Center and are adding this to their responsibilities; I am grateful for their willingness, and of course there are many loose ends to tidy up before I go: sorting out doan jobs, writing instructions for the new sound system, printing out tenken sheets, ordering candles, having some oryoki sets ready, hopefully getting some talks online.
I can't guarantee that I will be posting anything else this month, so expect the blog to be back in June.