The Diary Of A Monk — How I Became An Herbalist

This story is part of my memoirs — Personal essays that reach back over 72 years.

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I have been an outlier most of my life, resisting trends, ordinary thinking, and intentional ignorance. These stories reflect my contrarian ways of speaking and thinking.

My life is a long thread of patterns of behavior that can most simply be described by that great Bob Segar song “Against The Wind”. Here’s the song.

Here is a short introduction to this thread…

The Diary Of A Monk — An Introduction

Back in the early 1970s, my family had a small summer cottage in South Fallsburg. This is also where my first spiritual and healing “Guru, a barber, and Zen Mystic. I…