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Red Lotus
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🌈✡️☸️ Jewish Buddhist Thirty-Something living the Dharma best I can 🙏
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Baked my first ever pie from scratch. It’s not the prettiest of latticework, but I’m proud 🥧🫐
A baked latticework blueberry pie An unbaked pie crust full of blueberry mixed with sugar
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Added to the record collection 🎧
November 23, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Wicked: For Good time 💕💚
November 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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EVERYONE ON THIS APP DROP A SELFIE NOW… AND I MEAN RIGHT NOW!!!
Selfie of a man with blue glasses and a white and brown striped shirt smiling at the camera
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Picked up a new hobby this weekend 🎧
A selection of Florence and the Machine and Fleetwood Mac vinyl albums, and the mitski album Antique Barbara Streisand, the Sandpipers, Buffy Saints Marie, Bernsteins Greatest Hits, the Sound of Music, and the Hora Israeli music vinyl An antique looking radio and vinyl player with the dial lit up
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Felt like a vengeful forest fae in my costume today 🐐
November 1, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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I feel like I could run off into the fae wilds in this ren fair costume. 🧚‍♂️🍄🍄‍🟫
A man standing in a profile side view in front of a full bookcase in a green cloak, arm armor, brown pirate pants, a tan pirate shirt, and dark brown pirate boots. He holds a snake shaped walking stick in his left hand, and has various rings and dangly things on his neck and fingers A man leaned in toward the camera in front of a blank background in a green cloak, arm armor, brown pirate pants, a tan pirate shirt, and dark brown pirate boots. He holds a snake shaped walking stick in both hands as though casting a spell.
October 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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I couldn’t skip a Thai Kathina Cloth Ceremony either 🙏
October 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Some pictures from the New England Peace Pagoda, in celebration of the 40th anniversary of it being opened on Turtle Island with Nipponzan Myohoji, in coordination with the local Wampanoag tribal leaders, such as Sow Turtle. This stupa or pagoda contains relics of Shakyamuni Buddha gifted to Guruji.
A man in a red shirt standing with hands in a prayer position in front of a large white stupa with flags A large white rounded stupa with a golden statue of the Buddha, and an altar in front covered in flowers and fruit Me smiling and taking a selfie in front of the same pagoda Ornate golden statues of various Buddhas and bodhisattas that serves as the main altar
October 10, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Headed to see Infinity Castle 👺
September 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Received a temporary Honzon and Inari Daimyojin Ofuda in honor of Higan-E from my local Nichiren Shu Sangha 🙏 Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
September 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Purchasing physical media >>>
A dvd case for the movie conclave, with three Catholic priests and a nun. It is resting on a yellow cushion
September 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Happy to return to my Nichiren Shu Sangha and reinvigorate my practice 🙏
A stack of colorful books, containing the writings of nichiren The altar of a nichiren shu temple, with the central gohonzon statues, an inari kamidana on the left, and memorial plaques on the right A close up of the central gohonzon filled with statues of Buddhas and bodhisattvas, with nichiren at the center before an incense bowl The saijo inari kamidana with many fox statues in front of it, and a calendar of the gods behind it
September 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Got the haircut 💇‍♂️
A man with glasses turned to the camera with a half smile in a red t shirt.
July 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Tashi Deleg from Kurukulla for His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s birthday
July 6, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Climbed a mountain the other day.
Man smiling at camera with the background of a mountain vista Mountain with echo lake in front of it
June 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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I’m bespectacled now 🤓
Selfie of man smiling in blue framed rectangular glasses Selfie of man smiling in ombré black and clear rectangular glasses
May 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Visited Dharma Drum Mountain to celebrate the birth of Shakyamuni Buddha 🙏🙏🙏
The Amida triad of statues of Amitabha Buddha, Samantabhdra to our left on an elephant, and manjusti to the right on a lion. There are four bowls of fruit in front of them and a central incense burner for offerings. On a yellow table in the foreground there are two statues of the baby Buddha holding his finger to the sky in dishes of sweet tea And altar with Chinese writing above, a statue of Ksitigharba bodhisattva seated, surrounded by offerings, with a painting of the Buddha on the wall behind A statue of Guanyin seated with fruit and incense in front, and a painting of the Buddha framed behind
May 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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#Handsoff Concord New Hampshire
The state house of concord New Hampshire surrounded by peaceful protestors holding signs A protest sign in front of the New Hampshire state house that says know your parasite with an image of a deer tick and then an image of Trump with the word “Luna-tic” on it An orange protest sign in front of the New Hampshire state house that reads “the only minority destroying this country are the billionaires”
April 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Just submitted a tip to the Department of Education “End DEI” portal, keeping them busy focused on very dangerous teaching methods.
A picture of a submission form to the EnD DEI website with a humorous message about ms frizzle as a dangerous teacher with DEI responsibilities Ms frizzle in her school bus with her hand up and a lizard in her lap
February 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Spent my morning retaking the five precepts and offering incense 🙏
A butsudan altar laid out with multiple Buddha statues in the top part with a smaller white shelf containing an incense and water bowl, a singing bowl, a copy of a lotus sutra, and images of Ajahn Chah and ksitigharba
February 22, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Cat.
A white Siamese cat sticking out her little tongue while laying on a green and pink sheet in bed
February 22, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Spent an amazingly horrific night with @claymcleod.bsky.social Eric LaRocca, E.K. Sathue, and Dennis Mahoney, thanks to @ryinwonderland.bsky.social and @gibsonsbookstore.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Took a little trip to Boston for work and took some pictures 📸
Bronze State of woman muse painting in the foreground and a large ornate church in downtown Boston in the background. A view looking up at an ornate church window with stained glass and stone wall around with arches A brick alleyway with a sign that says “all saints way” above it you can see down the alleyway lined with pictures of all of the saints A selfie of a man with a beard and dark hair smiling in front of a cute icicle shaped statue with a smiling face and then another face under it
February 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Received a mala from Clear Mountain Refuge as they begin a recitation of refuge collection practice www.clearmountainmonastery.org/recitations-...
a dark red string of agate mala beads interspersed with quartz laying across a small white paper box on a yellow cushion.
February 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM