The Miracle of Being Cheerful
Years of nausea Anxiety Affliction Heart being battered Hourly taking up your cross And carrying it Night after day Day after night And when I’ve seen you Always that smile Always that glow Always that…
Category: Friends
After Reading Levertov’s Poem on the 1972 Christmas Bombing
For Suzanne Renard & Andrew Wimmer Haven’t you had such a fantasy Sure, a different decade A different civilization being destroyed Different men The same crimes Getting away with mass murder Mind movies of…
Jottings and Notes from Cami’s Talk
Cami Kasmerchak, Appalachian Summer: To the Mountains and Back, Sunday 24 February 2013 She talked about the “call” … reminds me of Margaret Wheatley: “The notion of vocation comes from spiritual and philosophical traditions. It…
I Know the Richest Person on Earth
1. In our Intercultural Studies class today Mariah, Ta’mare, and Rachel read the following stanzas Of “Our True Heritage” by Thích Nhất Hạnh: The cosmos is filled with precious gems. I want to offer a…
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…
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!