El Camino de Santiago by Dr. Brett Schrewe
A long while back, I put Dr. Brett Schrewe in touch with soon to be Dr. Amy (Nuismer) Afanasevich. Brett had walked the Camino years ago, and Amy was soon headed there. Brett offered the…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
From Cheryl Sullivan in Santiago, Chile
la tumba de Víctor Jara que alma más apasionada que letra más bella The tomb of Víctor Jara What a passionate soul What a beautiful letter
Persistence
2,768 times down 2,769 times up
Supplication from the Founder of the Theater of Cruelty
We are your faithful servants O Grand Lama give us grace us with your illuminations in a language our contaminated minds can understand Antonin Artaud, to the Dalai Lama –adapted from Eliot Weinberger, Outside Stories:…
Up All Night, November 12, 2007 (Henry Nagler’s Journal)
Who is going to say the unsayable? Who is going to press for the prosecution of George W. Bush and Company for murder? Who is going to stand for law and order? Who is going…
Libraries
A big library really has the gift of tongues and vast potencies of telepathic communication. Northrop Frye
Sempre Avanti
Sempre avanti, Italian. “Always keep moving forward.” I first learned this expression from Helena, a friend who typically signed off her letters with this expression, or else with Coraggio. A historian and a convert to…
Share the Wealth with Thuy Khuu on Wednesday 28 December 2016
Have you noticed that toilet paper only comes in circular rolls? Has it occurred to you that it can be in other shapes, square for instance? What would happen then? Every day, we interact with…
Share the Wealth with Thuy Khuu on Wednesday 28 December 2016
Have you noticed that toilet paper only comes in circular rolls? Has it occurred to you that it can be in other shapes, square for instance? What would happen then? Every day, we interact with…
Long Live Gandhiji
Dear Carla, Tanya and I are working our way through Gandhi’s Essential Writings (in the Oxford World’s Classics). We read ten sections a week (there are 237 sections in the book). Here are the passages…