Coming in Two Weeks! Liz Burkemper on Thomas Merton
Liz is generous enough to host a “Merton Hour” for us to be better acquainted with the prolific and prophetic monk Thomas Merton. Details soon!
Category: Gatherings
Share the Wealth with Matt Taibbi: “How Reading the News Is Like Smoking”
Excerpts—— We know we’re in the emotional manipulation business. We know we’re training you to unmoor yourself from reality and adopt self-destructive habits. The news is a consumer product. The notion that you are reading…
Share the Wealth with Emma Prince and Laura Weis: The Joys of Archivists
Emma, a certified archivist, founded Backlog after losing a university archives job early on in the pandemic. Before founding Backlog, she applied to 500+ jobs tangentially related to library science. Not ready to leave archives, she founded Backlog to…
“Nhat Hanh Is My Brother”
Dear Friends, I invite you to a second “Merton Hour” to consider Thomas Merton’s short intervention on behalf of Thich Nhat Hanh in 1966. We will read together “Nhat Hanh Is My Brother,” discuss in…
Share the Wealth: It’s National Poetry Month
On Sunday 10 April I invite you to share a favorite poem or two with us, whether by a poet you love or one of your own poems. Or you can tell us a story involving poetry, as you…
Share the Wealth with Caro and Johnny Dolan-Dominguez: One Mile Per Hour
In July 2019, we got engaged, quit our jobs, and loaded our bicycles and camping gear onto an Amtrak headed west. For the next four months we rode 4,000 miles through the Sierra Cascade mountains…
A Merton Hour
Please join us for a “Merton Hour” for thoughtful discussions about the impact Thomas Merton and his writings have had on us and the world we live in. On Sunday 20 February Ben Burkemper will…
Share the Wealth with Hedy Epstein: An Interview on Krystallnacht
Last night I asked Dianne Lee if she’d heard about the Whoopi Goldberg controversy earlier this week when she said the Holocaust had nothing to do with racism, but rather “man’s inhumanity to man.” …
Share the Wealth with Social Workers: In Support of Magan Wiles
My friend Magan Wiles (actor, activist, correspondent, tangoista, mutual aider) just asked me to write a letter of recommendation for her as she wants to get a Master’s degree in Social Work at Cal State….
These Are a Few of Our Favorite Things—A Winter Class to Take Us into Spring
Somehow [Bonnie] forced you to see yourself at your most amazing. Most precious. And believe in what you saw. She saw. A ll obstacles fell into shadow, disappeared, backlit by the blaze of what could…