Mel Weitsman died yesterday, January 7, 2021. He was 91. Mel was in charge of, then priest of, then abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center from 1967 to the summer of 2020. Herein I read some tributes from his Carling Bridge page and Facebook and then play a brief phone chat he and I had back in April when he was our first podcast guest. Mel was a great priest, person, and dear friend. - dc