I vow to learn them all.–from Bodhisattva Vows “You Are That Person” A student asked Soen NakagawaDuring a meditation retreat: “I am very discouraged. What should I do?”Soen replied, “Encourage others.” At the beginning of…
I pulled the following from Nhat Hanh’s The Miracle of Mindfulness… “Look at the cypress tree over there.” “Washing the dishes to wash the dishes” “The finger which points at the moon isn’t the…
Make Lists Not War Dear Cami, One index of a profitable reading experience may very well be in the marginalia we make. For instance, I read Ed Sanders’ collection of poetry Let’s Not Keep Fighting…
H. Leivick I have often felt that instead of writing my autobiography I would like to write the biography of my poems. I mean, tell the life story of some of my poems… Sholem Aleichem…
I first learned this Portuguese word when Mev Puleo was working on translating her interviews with radical Brazilian Christians in the early 90s. A one-word English synonym she gave me was “availability.” In her book …
Hatred/2 by Hedy Epstein Throughout the 1960s, I became involved in local civil and human rights activities, as well as anti-Vietnam war protests. In the spring of 1970, it became public knowledge in the United…
Rachel will celebrate the life of her Grandma Marcia, who died of Covid-19 in April, sharing stories from her grandma’s life as well as her own writing from the past seven months since her death….
Share the Wealth with Andrew Wimmer: Julian Assange in Conversation with John Pilger “You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is…
David Crystal, Words Words Words Oxford University Press, 2006 From this engaging book, I note the following words and passages. 1. Aptronym = when a name is felt to be especially appropriate to a…
Memory Flash He was focused, steady, concernedI was standing with Pete Mosher On South Grand by SLU in 2001Holding banners Condemning US sanctions on IraqAs cars and pedestrians go by At RISE Coffee After…