Fiddling with the Archetypes
Gary Snyder, The Real Work: Interviews & Talks 1964-1979 I first learned of Gary Snyder in fictionalized form as the hero Japhy Ryder in Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums. Therein, as in real life, the…
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Thought for the End of One Year and the Beginning of Another
“Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness. My dears, why do we quarrel, boast before each other, remember each other’s offenses? Let us go to the…
Gratitude/899
A predictably wonderful thing about late December–getting to see Thuy Khuu when she comes back for a visit.
I Like To See “Selfies”
They are a bell of mindfulness Reminding me of one of my favorite songs From the Beatles’ Let It Be George singing “I Me Mine”
Modus Vivendi
A world of images is offered by Christ — better, dramatized by him — images of waiting, listening, observing, debating, healing, conveying hope and humor, telling stories that end with a question lodged like a…
“Just Mow ‘Em Down”
Next month will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the very few well-known atrocities committed by U.S. forces in Vietnam. Compare mainstream coverage of this anniversary with the following … Michael Bilton and Kevin…
Why Translation Matters
Translation not only plays its important traditional role as the means that allows us access to literature originally written in one of the countless languages we cannot read, but it also represents a concrete literary…
Gratitude/1053
Gratitude for the 11 people who’ve been reading, writing, and sharing the past two months in the online “Be in Love with Yr Life” Class.
Palm Coast
My friends, the Burkempers, are vacationing at Palm Coast, and Liz sent me this photograph.