Bella Levenshteyn You Summon My Stream of Consciousness
Dear Bella How did you learn to respond when big burly vets spit on you, as if you’re Jane Fonda, only 40-something years younger? Have you ever been like Carla, failing at metta? Maybe after…
Kafka
I am looking, as I write of Kafka, at the photograph taken of him at the age of forty (my age)—it is 1924, as sweet and hopeful a year as he may ever have known…
Saturday Share the Wealth: The Last Two Months with Hedy Epstein
Local and global activist Hedy Epstein was diagnosed with cancer in early April of this year. She died at the age of 91 in late May. This week’s Share the Wealth will be stories by…
15 Reasons You Might Reconsider Your Boycott of Me and Resume Communication at Some Point in 2007 (But There Isn’t Any Reason to Rush or Anything)
I reminded you of Whitman, told you to read him BEFORE the morning news avalanche of expected accounts of horrific rapacities and Bush Administration deceptions and delusions, because we are larger, better than I thought;…
Dora, Leah, Bessie
Dora, Leah, & Bessie Salzman; circa 1910 (great-aunts and grandmother)
Tête-à-tête, Por Favor
Perry! “Welcome Back” isn’t going to cut it. We are going to have to have a tête-à-tête After carefully scrutinizing my extremely packed schedule, I have concluded that the following days are available for you to choose…
One of the Early Influences on “Dear Layla”
We could be like two people who inject themselves with truth serum and at long last have to tell it, the truth. I want to be able to say to myself, “I bled truth…
Sounds like a Three on the Enneagram
“I have an energetic personality. I love and want to get along with people. I am unusually joyous. I have strong convictions. My weaknesses are the flip-sides of my strengths. I can be domineering and…
Share the Wealth with Marilyn Vazquez: Sunday 2 October 2016
I came to the U.S when I was five months old, and attended public schools, made friends, and played sports my whole life. I will be speaking about the two key issues facing the integrated…
A Most Unsolemn Request
At my wake or funeral With a big smile on your shining-with-sri face Announce: “Happy Continuation Day, Shimmelstoy!”