Bhakti
Guruji, My eyes are thirsty for your image, to take in your beautiful smile and your graceful walk, to hear the voice that is music to my ears.
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
In the Margins of My Book on Sri Anandamayi Ma…
I had written this on page 30: (date: 5.23.2007) “Nima hoped I would look at her,
Tonight
Extraordinary buzz of life and brilliance at tonight’s Writing to Wake Up! Thanks to Josh Aranda, Libby Dunn, Tony Albrecht, Lindsey Weston, Jenn Reyes Lay, Cami Kasmerchak, Justin Lorenz, Emily Camp, Ann Heyse, Brittany Accardi, Lindsay…
Basic Instruction for First-Year Residents
Wherever you are Immerse yourself totally In one-pointed sādhanā. –last words of Srī Ānandamayī Mā
“To Lissy Espinoza” (So Many Discharges)
The truth is, I’ve already got anticipatory blues that you are leaving soon [one and a half tears] Even if it’s for only umpteen weeks [sharp rise in temperature] I’m aware it’s not like forever…
Share the Wealth with Fatima Rhodes: Walking with the Iraqis
On Sunday 21 October, Fatima Rhodes will share stories of her work with Iraqi refugees who have recently come to St. Louis. Join us for a potluck supper beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the home…
Forget Pessimism
Just this morning I came across the following exchange with Noam Chomsky, which reminded me of what Steve said last night in his talk on Syria… Interviewer: Did you go through a phase of hopelessness,…
From Wendy Lee in NYC
“Writing meditation – possibly one of the most valuable things I’ve ever learned. Thanks, Dr. C!”
A Journalist/1
1. The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. –Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 2. She had first traveled to Vietnam in 1955, glad to see that…
A Prayer
1. The following prayer was composed by Dr. Gordon Livingston, who graduated from West Point and did three tours in Vietnam as a surgeon with the 11th Armored Calvary Regiment. At a 1968 ceremony for…