Present Moment, Only Moment
One day last fall Dianne told me on the phone “I think Hedy is dying of pancreatic cancer” I didn’t believe it But in any case All there was to do that day Was to…
Category: Friends
Two Teachers
For two of my teachers I give thanks: Cao Ngoc Phuong Khuu Vinh Ngoc Thuy I first read Phuong’s autobiography Learning True Love: How I Learned & Practiced Social Change in Vietnam When it was…
Institute for the Cultivation of Slowness
You can start right where you are: Your home at 2167 Spring Avenue You can invite people over To an evening’s introduction How speed is ruining us How slowness can save us (heal us) You…
Stories from Winter Outreach with Tina Busch
Upcoming Share the Wealth gathering… St. Louis Winter Outreach is the brainchild of Teka Childress. One winter a homeless friend of hers died of hypothermia at a bus stop. Teka swore that if she could…
Co-Inspiration
Working on my obsession In the kitchen on Spring Avenue Alongside Sarah Bollinger and Lindsay Sihilling All of us fingering our laptops with brio –Go for broke!
What To Do When Not Doing
Our next Share the Wealth gathering will be with Emily Kryzer (a graduate of SLU in 2011), who will offer a brief reflection on one experience of “taking a year (or two) off”–rooting up lesson,…
For Lindsay
After the evening sharing on “coming alive” You told me with a tear You want to be at a monastery You want to be silent for days The Sufis say don’t speak unless you can…
Appalachian Summer: To the Mountains and Back
Join us Sunday February 24th as Cami Kasmerchak shares stories of her summer in the Appalachian Mountains. Cami worked for the nonprofit organization Appalachia Service Project in Clinton, Tennessee and will be returning to the…
Coming Alive
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Rev. Howard Thurman To live…