Our Speaker for this Forum is Greg Elliot. Greg Elliot is a writer and a teacher of writing. Along with his wife, he began attending Buddhist services at the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple in Little Tokyo in 1992. He joined in 2001, became a board member in 2008, and a Dharma Seed in 2016. (Dharma Seeds are the lay leaders of the temple.) During the pandemic, he has continued to be one of the facilitators of the Coffee and Dharma gatherings the temple offers the last Sunday of each month.