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Gershom Scholem, From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth Schocken paperback, 1988 I first read this book eighteen years ago. So much time has passed since those Maryknoll days when I thought I wanted to…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Share the Wealth with Mary & Cami: How to Stay Human in Grad School
WASHU’s Brown School is consistently ranked at the top of social work schools in the nation. But what does that mean if you lose your own humanity in the process? In this Share the Wealth,…
“I Remember” by Loran Aladdin
Loran wrote the following for my Humanities 101 class at Maryville University this past spring semester. _______________________ I remember a lifetime of feeling as though I should refrain from being proud of my identity. I…
Keeping Their Language Alive
Joseph Leftwich, Great Yiddish Writers of the Twentieth Century The writer wakens you, the reader, he rouses you out of your indifference, he shows you the things you had not seen before, he makes your…
Share the Wealth with Gabriela Keator: The Spiritual Path of a Barista
Merriam-Webster: “n: coffee brewed by forcing hot water through finely ground darkly roasted coffee beans” Gabriela Keator: “n: a vocational calling. A thing that sparks immense joy” For the majority of my life, I forced myself…
Share the Wealth with Elizabeth Burkemper on Tuesday 6 July … Bovine Bodhisattvas: My Springtime of Cows, Poetry, and Compassion
With luddite pipe dreams, I struggle in general with living in an increasingly technological, frenzied, and noisy world, and in specific with taking my first year of graduate classes on Zoom. In the midst of…
Making an Impression
Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Oneworld Publications, 2007 This is a profound meditation on truth, unpalatable as it will be for many supporters of an expansionist Israel. Pappe cuts through the decades of Nakba…
Epigraphs
This page is part of my book, Dear Love of Comrades, which you can read here.
There’s a Million Ways to Be (You Know That There Are): A Summer Writing Class Based on “Harold and Maude”
Harold : Maude.Maude : Hmm?Harold : Do you pray?Maude : Pray? No. I communicate.Harold : With God?Maude : With life! I invite you to join us for an unusual summer writing experience. Many people are…
This Is It !
My friend who is a Buddhist said once after coming out of a meditation retreat, “The colors were so much more vibrant afterward.” Her meditation teacher said, “When you are present, the world is truly…