“…Welcome to a Nichiren Shoshu discussion meeting! Tonight throughout the city there are actually – there are hundreds of meetings like this going on, where people are learning about Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and Gohonzon!
Meadows: [to Budduskey] What’s a "gohonzon"?
Buddusky: Shhh. I’ll tell ya ’bout it later.”…The Last Detail
Amazing what can happen when one takes a little detour from their normal routine.
Many don’t know than in Oregon, each taxpayer can give $50 to a political candidate and that $50 is applied as a tax credit on that person’s Oregon tax return (which essentially makes the donation free to the donor). So at the end of last year, my Republican wife’s $50 went to Chris Dudley (who had just entered the Oregon Governor’s race) and my $50 went to John Kitzhaber.
I watch a lot of movies from the 1960’s and 1970’s and in that cultural vein, I recently viewed “Model Shop” with Anouk Aimee and Gary Lockwood. As a conventional movie, it wasn’t great and it definitely felt culturally dated. As an anthropological / sociological relic from the near past, it was absolutely mesmerizing and because of my personal relationship with the movie locale, it was a total mindf***.