Recent Columns

by DELIA TOMINO NAKAYAMA

Greetings all! Thank you for tuning in again, and I hope you are enjoying the change in season. It is wonderfully cool in New Orleans now, and the flowers are blooming a bit again as they did in the spring, happy for respite from the heat.

I write this a bit early, so I am sure more bizarre, hair-curling events will happen between now and when this column comes out...

by TAKEO "BABE" UTSUMI

The stock market is still on uncertain grounds, to put it mildly. Last Monday, the Dow Jones index was referred to by one market broadcaster as a bungee jump.

The index at one time went down over 800 points, and finally “recovered” in the upper 300s.
It must be a wild time for the buyers and sellers on the floor of the Stock Exchange. Indigestion and headache pills are probably taken at a fast pace.

The so-called bail-out was to calm the market, but so far it hasn’t reacted the way it was hoped.

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by BISHOP KOSHIN OGUI
Buddhist Churches of America

I had been diagnosed with a brain injury that had resulted from my car accident in Los Angeles. After spending about two months in the hospital in San Francisco, I was released.
I was still unsure about my English ability and my life in this foreign land but nevertheless, I was assigned to work at the Buddhist bookstore at the Buddhist Churches of America headquarters. That was right around the time that I started going to Zen meditation sessions.

by DELIA TOMINO NAKAYAMA

I’ve written about “honesty” and “trust” in the past. Lately, another virtue was brought to mind and so I am inclined to write about it this week, which happens to be the week I turn 41 years of age.

Hard to believe. I certainly don’t feel and am told I don’t look this particular age, nor do I have a house, children or a “real” job. I am not sure where I expected I would be at this age, or what my values were to be.