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| This is a special holiday edition of Hundred Mountain, which features only one new article---but it's a big 'un. A complete new issue is coming next century (I just had to say it), on January 1, 2000. Depending, of course, on the good will of our contributors in producing their articles on time. And, of course, whether or not the world still exists. That would help, too.
"What To Get a Buddhist for Christmas" started out as a lark of an idea---it just seemed like a funny headline. But in considering actual recommendations for gifts in the Buddhist spirit, well, once begun, new categories kept presenting themselves. Feedback is welcome since, if Hundred Mountain makes it through the first year of the next millennium, I hope to make this feature an annual event. And for those, who like us, are adherents of the "Buy Less Stuff" movement, be assured that we are fellow travelers. Do read far enough into the article to get to the "Gifts of Aid and Service" section. And in that same spirit, I offer below my annual anti-consumerism Christmas screed. I wrote it for a family Christmas card many years ago. Somewhere in the jumble of torn gift wrappings, multiplying credit card bills and frantic last-minute shopping frenzy fever, may moments of cool mindfulness break through for you and those around you.
FREE VERSE By Douglas Imbrogno Christmas comes but once a year, Surely, there are gifts so kind But so it is, and what to do, Recycle gifts from years ago--- Then say "I've quit the Christmas game! But, no, most buying will proceed, |
