Tag: Intense

Final Fantasy VIII is one of my favourites and the Battle of the Gardens is a significant part of this with its adrenaline-inducing action throughout. For those who haven’t played the game, in Final Fantasy VIII you live in a mobile military school called Balamb Garden and the main v...

As you read this, I am on the first day of a seven-day Zen Buddhist Rohatsu Sesshin at the San Francisco Zen Center. Sesshins are daunting challenges, painful or beautiful depending on your state of mind. Forty other Zen students and I will not speak, use our smartphones, read, watch TV, listen t...