Son of a Gun

An arms manufacturer’s son visits home after moving to a Zen monastery.

By Shozan Jack Haubner

The phone rang, I answered it, and it was my dad. This made it exactly once that he’d rung me since I’d moved to a Zen Buddhist monastery several years earlier. Oh no, I thought, who died?

 

 

 

 

 

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Son of A Gun

Submitted by equa yona on Tue, 04/14/2009 - 09:45.

This is a terrific piece of writing. It is humorous, poignant, complex and profound. I love it!

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