Let’s Not Wait Till We’re Dead
Over poetry, you didn’t gush. You read it. You read it with the tongue. You lived it. You felt how it moved you, changed you. How it contributed to giving your own life a form,…
How Sha Concluded Her E-Mail
Thank you for being here or anywhere else with grateful heart to have connection with people I wish you enjoy every moment of your life –Sha Li was a delightful student in my Humanities and…
How Sha Concluded Her E-Mail
Thank you for being here or anywhere else with grateful heart to have connection with people I wish you enjoy every moment of your life –Sha Li was a delightful student in my Humanities and…
My Aspiration
Each & every year, as long as I live, I want to… Talk to you on your birthday Elicit your laughter when you most need it Listen to your for hours at a time Embody…
At the End of the Semester
For friends in Spirituality of Service & Social Justice classes I want us to be freer I don’t want us to be in thrall to guilt I want us to let our light shine Why…
Dipa Ma’s Encouragement for the Trump Era (Or Any Other)
“Everything will be solved through the dharma.” Dipa Ma
A Facebook Message from Thao Truong
March 29, 2013 Dear Dr. C, i just had a dream about you and your class last night. I saw that we studied abou Love. You wrote a lot of questions about love on the…
Gatha of the Week/3
When wayward thoughts are persistent I vow with all beings to imagine that even the Buddha had silly ideas sometimes. –Robert Aitken, The Dragon Who Never Sleeps:Verses for Zen Buddhist Practice
Share the Wealth with Rosabeth Koehn
Mark invited me to do a Share the Wealth after hearing me talk about my experience of Montessori teacher training this past summer. I have completed one of three summers of study at the Montessori…