Reading/212
“But books grant us many possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination. It may be that there is no book, however well written, that can remove an ounce of pain from the tragedy…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Share the Wealth: A World of Opportunities for a Pakistani Immigrant, with Aroona Toor
Aroona Toor will share about her upbringing as an immigrant and her recent trips to Spain and Ethiopia. She will talk about what she has learned from her experiences and the importance and benefits of…
Being With
I have some grand notions in my head But they often fall by the wayside When I’m sitting at the table Talking with one person Hearing all that has happened In that one life. –Dorothy…
Email from Larry Friedberg in Haifa (Reading/6)
Dear Professor One of your former students told my daughter To tell me that I should read your book So I did I read it in two days I want to thank you You articulated…
Share the Wealth This Coming SATURDAY: Winter Outreach, with Jerry and Marty King
From my friend Jerry King… Several years ago, one of Teka Childress’s outreach clients at BJC froze to death at a bus stop in the City, and Teka vowed that would not ever happen again…
Remembering and Forgetting
1. The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. –Milan Kundera, Czech/French novelist 2. The Jews of my city are now forgotten, erased from its memory. Before, there were some…
The Slow Fix
This isn’t the Sudden Enlightenment School By a long shot It’s the Show-up-Each-Day- Sit-Down-and-Shut-up-School It’s meditating morning and night Then gathas throughout the day It’s tending to the garden of the mind And smiling to…
After Reading John Dominic Crossan*
Dear Shimmelstoy After our talk the other day (So many tears … but how energized I was when we parted!) I went home to read and came across this line: “We live in the shadow…
Makes Me Happy
To receive a vivid piece of writing (poem, rant, trans-genre) from a friend and then get permission to share it with others who are adept at appreciation To bike in Forest Park, run up Art…
Western Reverence for Life
General William Westmoreland once said “The Oriental doesn’t place The same high value on life As does a Westerner In the Orient life is cheap It doesn’t matter” The general said this in 1972 27…