Tannishblog

Okay - not really; I quit that stuff years ago. But I did space out on this blog’s two-year anniversary. It was Wednesday. On May 7th, 2005, I began an experiment in writing, hosted on Blogger, which is surprisingly still ongoing.

I don’t have many readers, but I would like to thank you all for your silent encouragement, your occasional commentary and especially your patience. Having a hundred or so visits a week is enough to fool myself into believing I’m not wasting energy here. Blogging is often akin to screaming into a vacuum, but any kind of writing is like that. Thanks to the miracle of web site tracking, I can rest assured some few visit every day. That’s good enough for me. Besides, I have no vision of being the next Kos…

Thanks, all.

A once-in-a-lifetime event is taking place on May 6th in Chicago’s Millennium Park. Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama is visiting to give a teaching in mind training in the morning at the Harris Theater, and a public talk entitled: Finding Inner Peace in a World Full of Turmoil, at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in the evening. Tickets are available for either event or for an all-day pass which includes a catered luncheon. The full-day package is very limited.

Tickets go on sale today a noon. Proceeds will benefit the establishment of Tibetan-American Center for Cross-Cultural Understanding, Chicago. Go to the web site dalailamachicago.com for more information, or go to the Harris Theater online box office.

Maybe I’ll see you there!