Stories from Winter Outreach with Tina Busch
Upcoming Share the Wealth gathering… St. Louis Winter Outreach is the brainchild of Teka Childress. One winter a homeless friend of hers died of hypothermia at a bus stop. Teka swore that if she could…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Neruda Night! Latin America Reading Group for March
“There is something about Neruda—about the way he glorifies experience, about the spontaneity and directness of his passion—that sets him apart from other poets. It is hard not to be swept away by the urgency…
Co-Inspiration
Working on my obsession In the kitchen on Spring Avenue Alongside Sarah Bollinger and Lindsay Sihilling All of us fingering our laptops with brio –Go for broke!
What To Do When Not Doing
Our next Share the Wealth gathering will be with Emily Kryzer (a graduate of SLU in 2011), who will offer a brief reflection on one experience of “taking a year (or two) off”–rooting up lesson,…
Bhagavad Gita Reading Group/1
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 1 Monday 25 February 2013 6312 W. Park Avenue 6:30 p.m. Meditation Downstairs 20 m. Paired Sharing Upstairs 20 m. Consider any of the following: What is your reaction to the chapter…
Last
The Stoics encouraged their students To live each day as if it were their last That old mantra Carpe diem The last lecture The last deep listening The last sounding of the bell The last…
What the President Says/What the First Calvary Sang
1. And one of the most painful chapters in our history was Vietnam – Most particularly, how we treated our troops who served there You were often blamed for a war you didn’t start When…
For Lindsay
After the evening sharing on “coming alive” You told me with a tear You want to be at a monastery You want to be silent for days The Sufis say don’t speak unless you can…
One
I regard people who come to me as part of my living body. You are my head, you are my right arm, you my left arm, and you are my right leg and you my…
A State of Wonder
The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity. — Glenn Gould