Category: Correspondence

A Frenzied Gut

Just got back from a weekend retreat in the mountains where I devoured Dear Layla: Welcome to Palestine. I’m so grateful for you and your recommendation. There was so much I needed to connect with….

Bless Your Heart

One of the most powerful responses To my novel Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine Was yours I sent you a draft You stopped reading After fifty pages It was the chapter in which the Israeli…

On Book Six of The Brothers Karamazov

For Cab Yau Perhaps these will speak to you as we reconsider Dostoevsky’s masterpiece… “where we read truly, where the experience is to be that of meaning, we do so as if the text (the…

Off You Go

You’re about to begin another adventure And will likely discover How rich you are And how poor you are How much you want to share And how much you need to lose You’ll realize all…

Gratitude/728

This weekend is commencement Each day is commencement Each hour is commencement I’ve known you Twenty months May I know you twenty years more What spirit you manifest! So many creative powers– Poetry, art, organizing…

For Carlos, Every Day Is Mother’s Day

Katherine Kelliher read aloud the following letter  at tonight’s Share the Wealth on the Restorative Justice Movement.  From their week in Los Angeles, Katherine and Anne gave  a lot to fill our hearts.  Please pass…