Remembering the Dead/2

Dear Shimmelstoy I was moved by what you mentioned about Joel His is a private commemoration Which for some reason reminds me of Yankev Glatshteyn (If you haven’t read him yet, get’s Fein’s translation In…

Cheer Up

Hungry ghosts are everywhere But bodhisattvas are everywhere too Suffering is everywhere But the transnational sangha is everywhere too

Gratitudes/937

It came to my attention Just in the last week or so That Tony Albrecht saw The Book of Mev on the Arandas’ bookshelves, borrowed it, and started reading it Abbie Amico is going over Faces of Poverty…

Remembering the Dead/1

Dear Bella Levenshteyn I take long walks with Joel in the park The other day he told me about one of his  practices Like some of our friends do yoga Others  swear by their vipassana…

Sumud

A Message from Dr. Zeina Kiblawi: Finally made it to our hotel, after a 7 hour detainment and repeated (insulting and meaningless) interrogations at Tel Aviv airport. Apparently, the desire to help Palestinian neonates is…

Then and Now

Why had I never noticed the number of sick who appear in the Gospels? Who or what made them sick? Political oppression, legal degradation, economic plunder, and religious neutrality …. Extreme misery prevailed within this…