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David Loy

David Robert Loy is a professor, writer, and Zen teacher in the Sanbo Zen tradition of Japanese Zen Buddhism. He is a prolific author, whose essays and books have been…

The New Yorker profiled my living off the grid

My letter to the New Yorker's editor in September led to a reporter, Zach Helfand, visiting and writing a story on me. They published it today (including spotlighting it, see…

Waking before the alarm, writing in the dark

I told a friend how sometimes when I wake up before the alarm I get my best ideas. Most of the time I don't write them down, figuring if they're…

Carl Erik Fisher, M.D., is an addiction psychiatrist, bioethics scholar, and author. He is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, where he studies and teaches law, ethics,…

Fifty-one

Different people define middle age differently, but having just turned 51 I think I'm in it by all definitions. Physical My first sense of my body physically declining came in…

I think I bought five or ten non-food things over the past year or two

While writing up a longer piece on my experiment going off the grid, I looked up when I bought the solar panels and battery. Going through my old records, I…

Change my view: American culture has abandoned “Leave it better than you found it.”

Growing up in the 1970s and 80s, I remember people saying about visiting places of natural beauty, from campgrounds to local parks to national parks, beaches, and so on: "Leave…

Scrubbing the floor regularly

Someone suggested I learn about a writer named Pico Iyer. In an interview I listened to he talked about the musician Leonard Cohen, who apparently spent time living as a…