I Do Think That They Will Sing To Me
A friend loaned me a scanner I’ve thousands of photos in basement from decades ago Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Radiant and Wretched (Pay Attention)
“There’s plenty of time in this day” Who would claim that And risk setting off a cacophonous chorus of groans? “There’s never enough time To get done all the things I have to do— never,…
Sunday 28 September Share the Wealth with Nebu Kolenchery
Love Laws and the Hierarchy of Despair: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy “He didn’t know that in some places, like the country that Rahel came from, various kinds of despair competed for…
Starting Where We Are: A Writing Course on the Mind-Training Slogans via Pema Chödrön
Join us this fall for a writing course that focuses on the 59 mind-training slogans as taught by beloved Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön in her book, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living….
Share the Wealth, with Ron Laney: Practicing Peace – My Time with the Vietnamese Monastic Community of Magnolia Grove Monastery
In the summer of 2013, when Ron Laney arrived at Magnolia Grove Monastery in Mississippi, a practice center in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh, what he had planned on was simply staying for a…
Written on the Back Side of Ginsberg’s “Why I Meditate”
for Bella Levenshteyn There are 10,000 reasons to meditate (at least) There are 10,000 beings to save (for starters) There are 10,000 demented states of consciousness to purify (carpe diem) There are 10,000 dreams to…
Summer Poetry Reading List 2014
Ernesto Cardenal, Apocalypse and Other Poems Ernesto Cardenal, Flights of Victory/Vuelos de Victoria Ernesto Cardenal, From Nicaragua with Love Ernesto Cardenal, Golden UFOs: The Indian Poems Ernesto Cardenal, Pluriverse: New and Selected Poems Ernesto Cardenal, Psalms Ernesto Cardenal, The Doubtful Strait Ernesto Cardenal, Zero Hour…
Heroes
In this Washington Post piece on Rory Kennedy’s new film, Last Days in Vietnam, she is quoted as follows: “I think the reason why people don’t know what happened [in 1975] was this was such…
Reading Galeano
Lindsay Weston recently wrote me Asked if I could recommend anything to read Instantly I thought of the trilogy So long on my shelf Barely perused but Now may be the time! I sent word…
Poem of the Day: Daisy Zamora, 50 Love Poems and an Unfulfilled Confession to Ernesto Cardenal
If I had known Ernesto as he appears in the yellowed photograph Julia showed me: lean, bearded, with his plaid shirt and linen pants, hands in his pockets and that vague air of helplessness, I’d…