Bach/Gould/Said

Bach’s music was for [Glenn] Gould an archetype for the emergence of a rational system whose  intrinsic power was that it was, as it were, crafted resolutely against the negation and disorder that surround us…

Thơ

Little Sister At the end of our lesson At the Bread Co on South Grand You gave me a simple assignment: “Write a four-line poem in Vietnamese” You came to this country at age eight…

Subversives

In the New Directions collection, Zero Hour and Other Documentary Poems, Ernesto Cardenal includes an “Epistle to Monsignor Casaldáliga (whom Mev Puleo interviewed in her book The Struggle is One, and from which I quoted…

Spiritual Exercises: Slowing Down

“I have no time to be in a hurry.” — Henry David Thoreau For our October Spiritual Exercises gathering, Lindsay Sihilling will share reflections on her experience of slowing down. We meet on Monday 22…

Darshan

From Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda: Anandamayi Ma was standing in an open-topped automobile, blessing a throng of about one hundred disciples. She was evidently on the point of departure. Mr. Wright parked…

Seeing

1. Since coming to Sri Ramakrishna, M. had lost all relish for lectures and for books written by English scholars. The only thing that appealed to him now was to see the Master day and…