Safa and the Marine Face to Face in the Parking Lot (Ahimsa/2)
Dear Professor You asked how things are going in grad school Here’s today’s highlight— Before going to class today I stopped at Starbucks to get a latte As I was walking back to my car…
Month: November 2016
Wilder Love by April Ulinski
Started rereading The Book of Mev last night. Partially because I needed her reminder that being academic does not mean being disengaged from the world and from the people behind all those ideas. Also because…
Gathas Written at Northwest Coffee, 11.9.2016
1. Breathing in, all this toxicity Breathing out, compassion is available 2. Breathing in, noticing this state of being stunned Breathing out, realizing this state is impermanent 3. Breathing in my friends’ despair Breathing out:…
Share the Wealth with Maryville Student-Athletes
This Sunday Bekah Anderson (Texas), Sarah Etter (Switzerland), Kine Kleppe (Norway), Cara Rickert (Texas) and Puck Vlaskamp (Netherlands) will share reflections on their many years of tennis youth and team experiences. Join us Sunday 13…
Culled from a Journal: Summer in Salvador
A friend lived in El Salvador for several weeks one summer. Recently, she went to Art Hill and reread through the journal she kept those months, culled the following lines, and told me I could…
From One of Jesus’ Students in the United States of Amnesia
We are not to forget, to lose our hold upon the word of God as to our vocation (which is in effect much akin to the vocation of the prophet). To forget in this sense…
A Second Bible by Melech Ravitch
Why shouldn’t a second Jewish Book be put together and edited and canonized, on the lines of our Bible? 377 A Bible is not an anthology, nor a history, nor a collection of documents. It…
No Time for Literary Criticism
You are the voice of people with adhesive tape across their mouths This is no time for literary criticism. Nor for attacking the gorillas with surrealistic poems. And what use are metaphors if slavery is…
We Know
In that spring semester course There were 40 students The official limit was 35 But I let more in Before starting The Book of Mev I asked “How many of you Have known someone— A…
Interrupting My Life
Alex Gaynor worked this past year with the Jesuit Volunteers and is currently a campus minister at Saint Joseph University in Philadelphia. She participated in the Be in Love with Yr Life and Writing Rejuvenation…