Sharon Salzberg, who is leading Tricycle’s first online retreat, also found the time to pen this piece for the Huffington Post: “A Crossed Wire: A Call for Help.” Here’s a sample:

I had a strange experience the other day. The landline in my NYC sublet had intermittently stopped working, for days on end. No dial tone, or a strange sound of static, or a faint message about a receiver being off the hook (I only have one.) I made many calls to Verizon, had periods of false hope only to see the phone go again, and ended up with the cell phone number of the repairman…

Read the entire piece here.