After we returned from Estonia, I set up a few RSS feeds to keep track of what’s going on over there. I was a bit stunned to read this week that the helicopter we took from Tallinn to Helsinki crashed in the Baltic Sea, killing all 14 people aboard. Things like that really make you pause and reassess …
I just finished Pankaj Mishra’s phenomenal biography of the Buddha, “An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World.”
A haze hangs over Melton Hill Lake as the summer heat begins to settle in for the day. It’s been so hot recently that Xena spends her days moving from one air conditioning vent to another, trying to stay cool. A few more photos of this morning’s trip to the lake are here.
