Commonplace Books
From the Be in Love with Yr Life class, Annie Kratzmeyer was telling me about the commonplace notebooks she fills. Here’s a page of one of mine. What Emerson kept, and what he recommended enthusiastically…
Category: Friends
The Good News of Inspiration from Rereading Lindsey Trout Hughes’s Letters and Poems
In the last year and a half, I have benefited enormously from exchanges with Lindsey, who lives in Brooklyn.
A Briiliant Bit of Victor Hugo
My friend Andrew Wimmer has taken on a translation of Hugo’s Les Misérables. He shared the following in this morning’s email… “If it had not rained on the night of June 17, 1815, the future…
Coming Soon: Share the Wealth with Laura Lapinski: The Films of Wes Anderson
Laura Lapinski, a graduate student in psychology at SIUE, is doing her Share the Wealth on film director Wes Anderson on Sunday 8 October. For those interested in joining us, here’s some background from Laura……
Share the Wealth with Mary Shannon: Practicing Radical Empathy
My work with Casa de Salud has offered me a unique perspective on the St. Louis healthcare system. Through stories of my time with Casa, we will explore the barriers to healthcare that many St….
A Letter Is… by Emily Guck-McGuigan
A letter is…. A humanly imperfect cartography of thoughts and experience Made not for self-exploration (Though insight often emerges from the act) But for sending on– Inviting, “Imagine yourself here!”
Share the Wealth with Jason Makansi: Painting by Numbers at Left Bank Books
For this week’s Share the Wealth, I invite you to learn from my friend Jason Makansi this Thursday! Left Bank Books welcomes author and independent consultant Jason Makansi, who will sign and discuss his new…
The Good News of Knowing Them, 6.17.2017
So many of us inter-are with Doctors Neil Munjal and Neeta Shenai!
VietNam Style
I was delighted to read this review from the Post-Dispatch about my former Maryville student Thao Truong and her husband Yun Vu’s restaurant, VietNam Style. I’m hoping to bring my Thich Nhat Hanh class soon…
Share the Wealth with Carrie Niswonger: Life Through a Lens
Photography is another way to view the world around us as well as using our eyes. While photography has many uses, numerous people popularly use it as an artistic medium to capture moments, emotions, and…