Which Would You Choose?!
I receive frequent emails from Tablet, including the late afternoon What Happened Today: Scroll. Here is today’s Idea of the Day—
Month: September 2022
What I Learned from Mev by Cami
My friend Cami Kasmerchak was generous enough to make this video for a talk I was to give at Visitation Academy, Mev’s alma mater, for the first-year students who were on retreat on Friday 16…
Ed Snowden, Matt Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald
Check out Matt Taibbi’s article today, The Washington Post Dabbles in Orwell: In scrubbed piece about Edward Snowden, the Bezos Post offers a preview of how history will be re-written. Here’s the penultimate paragraph: “That…
Share the Wealth
I started a project in September 2012 when I gave a name to what I’d been doing for a couple of years, namely, asking my friends and students if they’d be willing to share with…
Encouragement
You will have to go on discriminating and make a sustained effort to convince your mind of the fact that japa, meditation, and all other spiritual exercises, have for purpose your awakening. On this pilgrimage…
And What If No One Is Looking on and Applauding?
William D Miller, A Harsh and Dreadful Love: Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement After reading and discussing The Brothers Karamazov with 12 friends in 2021, I finally read William Miller’s 1973 history of…
Dipa Ma Gives Advice to Her Students
“If you can just manage five minutes a day, then do that. It is important to do whatever you can, no matter how little.” “If you are a householder, you have enough time. Very…
Sharing the Wealth of My Friends: Gabriela’s Website
Check out the latest post by Gabriela Keator, a “writing off of” Nhat Hanh’s essential poem, The Good News.
Problematizing My Faves: Matt Taibbi on Howard Zinn
The worst thing is to claim to be objective. Of course, you can’t be. Historians should say what their values are, what they care about, what their background is, and let you know what is…
Remembering Mev
Last week anticipating giving a talk on Mev at her alma mater Visitation Academy, I inquired on Facebook if anyone from her Viz days had recollections about her. Stephanie Ortbals-Tibbs offered the following… I still…