Some Things Take Time

I read the following in  2005; Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine came out in 2015: Ironic essay, novelistic narrative, autobiographical fragment, historical fact. Flight of fantasy—the synthetic power of the novel is capable of combining…

Our Father

In the constellation of geniuses, he is a blinding light and father of us all. (I exclude Shakespeare because for Shakespeare no human epithet is enough.)… I think Ulysses is the most diverting, brilliant, intricate,…

The Way It Looked in 1988

Take a look at this morning’s New York Times (I had fifty cents to kill, so I bought a copy). There’s  story about Israel, John Kifner, a pretty good reporter, is reporting about attitudes in…

James Cone, 1992

We should never pit them against each other. Anyone, therefore, who claims to be for one and not the other does not understand their significance for the black community, for America, or for the world….

On Moshe-Leib of Sassov

  Before we leave Sassov, let us take a minute to ask ourselves these last questions:  Was Reb Moshe-Leib the forerunner of all those helpless men and women who, generations later, eternities later, continued to…

Abrahamic Minorities

Help men and women of good will— from every land and color and language and religion— to bring liberating moral pressure to bear on authorities and awaken their consciences so that they will help the…

We Inter-Continue

I continue in you You continue in me Maybe you will influence life In northwest China in 15 years Maybe I will influence life In southern Nigeria in 22 years We are the continuation of…

Mindfulness Has Genius, Power, and Magic in It

At this morning’s discussion of Thay’s The Art of Communicating, Madalyn spoke  about how she notices more interconnections the more she practices mindfulness.  This reminded me of the following reflection from W. H. Murray, which I’ve adapted: Until…