On the Street Meditation

The swami told me to make japam while I walked and to give everybody I met on a street a mental blessing. You weren’t to think of yourself with a feeling of superiority, as a…

Note from Claire

“To say ‘silence’ in Spanish, you have to say, ‘yes’ twice. Accept it. Just as it sounds without inquiring into it.” –see-lén-see-oh Claire was recently on a five-day Silent Retreat.

Note from Claire

“To say ‘silence’ in Spanish, you have to say, ‘yes’ twice. Accept it. Just as it sounds without inquiring into it.” –see-lén-see-oh Claire was recently on a five-day Silent Retreat.

Bourdieu on Algeria

The somewhat exalted libido sciendi that drove me, rooted in a kind of passion for everything about this country, its people and its landscapes, and also in the dull but constant sensation of guilt and…

Poem of the Day: Bertolt Brecht

Those who take the meat from the table Teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined Demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill speak to the hungry Of wonderful times to come. Those who…

American Ingenuity

[Daisy Cutters were] so named because they were designed to explode just above the ground so the main force of the explosion was horizontal in order to cause the maximum destruction at ground level. The…

A Writer and His Readers

And nothing would make me happier than having made it possible for some of my readers to recognize their own experiences, difficulties, questionings, sufferings, and so on, in mine, and to draw from that realistic…