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Monday, August 15, 2011
![Poet Sir Walter Scott](pix/scott-sir-walter.jpg)
[1771 - Sir Walter Scott, writer, poet, born in Edinburgh, Scotland]
![Comiskey Park - Home of the White Sox](pix/comiskey-park.jpg)
[1859 - Charles Albert Comiskey, baseball Hall of Famer, born in Chicago]
![Actress Ethel Barrymore](pix/barrymore-ethel2.jpg)
[1879 - Ethel Barrymore (Ethel Mae Blythe), Academy Award-winning actress, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
![Writer Edna Ferber working at home](pix/ferber-edna3.jpg)
[1885 - Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, born in Kalamazoo, Michigan]
![Lyricist Ned Washington](pix/washington-ned3.jpg)
[1901 - Ned Washington, Academy Award-winning lyricist, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania]
![Puppeteers Bil Baird (Rt) & Jim Henson](pix/baird-bil3.jpg)
[1904 - Bil (William Britton) Baird, puppeteer, born in Grand Island, Nebraska]
![Master Chef Julia Child](pix/child-julia.jpg)
[1912 - Julia Child, master chef, born in Pasadena, California]
![Dame Wendy Hiller](pix/hiller-dame-wendy.jpg)
[1912 - Dame Wendy Hiller, Academy Award-winning actress, born in Cheshire, England]
![panama-canal-ss-ancon-first-transit](pix/panama-canal-ss-ancon-first-transit.jpg)
[1914 - The Panama Canal is opened to maritime traffic; SS Ancon makes the first passage between oceans]
![Leonard Baskin's seated figure at Holocaust Memorial](pix/baskin-leonard_holocaust-mem.jpg)
[1922 - Leonard Baskin, sculptor, artist, writer, illustrator, teacher, born in New Brunswick, New Jersey]
![Jazz great Oscar Peterson](pix/peterson-oscar3.jpg)
[1925 - Oscar Peterson, jazz pianist, composer, born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada]
![Last photo of Will Rogers & Wiley Post](pix/rogers-will_post-wiley.jpg)
[1935 - Will Rogers & Wiley Post are killed in a plane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska]
![Players Union Leader Gene Upshaw](pix/upshaw-gene-port.jpg)
[1945 - Gene Upshaw, Pro Football Hall of Fame Raider guard, born in Robstown, Texas]
Hogen
He was my mentor
The example of his life
He still teaches me
The Roshi Hogen Teaches:
Right speech, harmlessness,
Restraint in speaking ill of others,
Moderation in food, at peace in remoteness and solitude,
Devotion to higher meditation.
This is the teaching of the Buddhas.
If you understand,
Things are such as they are.
If you do not understand,
Things are such as they are.
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