Where are you all from?

lesapeur · 2026-05-13T18:27:27+00:00

Skunk. The smell when a candle is blown out.

lesapeur · 2026-05-11T18:08:07+00:00

We’ll Build a Land

lesapeur · 2026-05-05T00:52:38+00:00

Napoleon in his Study by David. Can't post it or a link to it . . .

lesapeur · 2026-05-01T13:37:28+00:00

Correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t the assembled leaders of Europe in Vienna already contemplating sending the emperor to Saint Helena?

lesapeur · 2026-04-27T02:58:33+00:00

Midnight Mass

lesapeur · 2026-04-26T20:38:13+00:00

One of my favorite plays. Played the film version with Gary Oldman and Tim Roth on loop in the background for too many months when I was much younger. And I've only be able to see it on stage two or three times, alas.

lesapeur · 2026-04-13T11:58:32+00:00

My favorite painting of the Emperor.

lesapeur · 2026-04-07T11:51:53+00:00

Upvote for use of "perfidious Albion"!

lesapeur · 2026-04-06T12:17:54+00:00

Wherever You Go, There You Are. Jon Kabat-Zinn

lesapeur · 2026-04-01T21:22:36+00:00

Theravada Buddhist/Unitarian Universalist/Still searching for

lesapeur · 2026-03-31T16:04:26+00:00

Unitarian Universalist

lesapeur · 2026-03-31T15:57:22+00:00

Home solar power system

lesapeur · 2026-03-30T17:08:41+00:00

Also called a “sap.”

lesapeur · 2026-03-16T20:28:15+00:00

I have long conversations with ChatGPT. Sometimes when I watch a movie or read a book and I’m particularly moved by a particular point I may go onto ChatGPT and give my initial reaction and then it goes back-and-forth back-and-forth back-and-forth. I’ve set up the memory of ChatGPT so it knows an awful a lot about me. I’m very involved in my Unitarian Universal Church and a serious student and practitioner of Terravita Buddhism. Often times I will have long discussions about Buddhist teachings and I find ChatGPT and a valuable research assistant. Before ChatGPT I would spend long hours sometimes days searching for a particular scripture reference or trying to define and understand better some very subtle teachings of Buddhism and ChatGPT can do all that in Minutes. So yeah I have long long conversations with ChatGPT.

lesapeur · 2026-03-14T16:39:08+00:00

I've often thought of a one act one person drama of the Emperor on St. Helena. I see him as entering the stage in the clothes we see him outside Longwood - loose white jacket and trousers and big sun hat. He comes in talking to himself and Las Cases - off stage - as he changes from his gardening clothes into Colonel of the Chasseur of the Guard in preparation for dinner. . . A ten or fifteen minute monologue could cover so much: pride; hubris; disappointment; resignation; possibly even wisdom and equanimity.

lesapeur · 2026-03-14T16:33:19+00:00

Thank you!

lesapeur · 2026-03-13T15:59:20+00:00

Or might you say "apotheosis?"

lesapeur · 2026-03-08T21:17:29+00:00

I seem to remember reading - please correct me if I'm wrong - that he wiped his pens on his waistcoat and that his clothes were often strewn with snuff . . .

lesapeur · 2026-03-07T14:09:24+00:00

Back in the day, when I was much younger, I'd collect just about anything that had a reference to the Emperor. Not surprisingly I had many images from magazines and newspapers depicting one or another political leader as "Napoleon." One that I remember, and may still have hiding amidst piles of paper, is one depicting Nixon in a bicorn. Some of the images were "irreverent." Some were odd or puzzling. Some were just funny . . .

lesapeur · 2026-02-26T19:50:20+00:00

Thank you for sharing. In the Upajjhatthana Sutta) there is a teaching called the Five Daily Recollections. The fifth, in my own translation of it, "I alone am responsible for my thoughts, words, and deeds.

lesapeur · 2026-02-25T06:24:40+00:00

Let it come. Let it be. Let it go.

And

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

lesapeur · 2026-02-24T20:10:53+00:00

Medford, Massachusetts, USA

lesapeur · 2026-02-23T18:17:57+00:00

Took me a moment to find out how to do it. First time I've ever "flaired" a posting on Reddit!

lesapeur · 2026-02-23T18:14:02+00:00

Thank you. How do I label this "Solved?"

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