One of the most common companion images attached to the word “language,” other than “foreign,” is “barrier.” Playing to the myth of national unity, American culture in many ways discourages the learning of languages other…
A couple friends and I are reading books on Jesus this year. Our first is Thich Nhat Hanh’s Living Buddha, Living Christ. We may also read the Jewish Gnostic/literary scholar Harold Bloom, who has this…
Julia Brucks is indefatigable, inspirational, passionate, perspicacious, witty and brilliant. An awesome Share the Weatlh!
if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it….
In this winter/spring course, we will read (or reread) and write on themes from my recent book, Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine. Precedent for this method: last spring we used themes from The Book of…
You’re sitting in Civ Pro— Looking like you’re paying attention Masking skillfully Your ho-hum ennui Let me remind you— In your deep heart’s core You can always visit Innisfree Or even chat with Crazy Jane
“We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being…
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live everyday, that we form by being together. There are…
for Caroline Going on a journey, whatever the destination, makes you feel suddenly awake and alive to everything. There are so many new things to see in rustic places and country villages as you wander…
The main intellectual task is to confront the Israeli conscience with the serious human and political claims of the Palestinians: these require moral, intellectual, cultural attention of the most profound kind, and cannot easily be…