Tonight’s Share the Wealth Book of Mev Soundtrack
Glenn Gould, Goldberg Variations, Aria Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Eddie Vedder, Face of Love U2, All I Want Is You Violeta Parra, Gracias a la Vida Shakira, Ojos Así Duke Ellington, Take the “A”…
Share the Wealth: Stories of Accompaniment from The Book of Mev
In a notebook I recently wrote the following about my novel, Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine: There’s so much accompaniment taking place: Internationals accompanying the Palestinians in Gaza The Palestinians accompanying the internationals Henry accompanying Josh…
Thought for the Day
Delusion is dreaming; enlightenment is awakening. –P’u-an
Debts No Honest Man Can Pay
Colin Shevlin, evoking Springsteen, Nebraska album, circa 1982; photo by Alexis Mary Lassus
Your True Names
for Chris Wallach
One-Pointed
Bella Levenshteyn MJ O’Hare shared the following with me Somebody in her Memphis sangha shared it with her When you were on your Yankev Glatshteyn binge You were a model to me of concentration May…
Share the Wealth with Teresa Wink: The Daily Life of a Hospice Nurse
I will share stories from my work as a hospice nurse with the goal of humanizing both nurse and patient. We are not angels. They are still fully alive. And there is not really a…
One-Sided!!!
Dear Bella So after my article on Agent Orange Day Was published in the campus newspaper Professor Lang Came up to me at Fatemeh’s Cafe and said “Why do you only talk about How the…
On Susan Sontag, Trip to Hanoi
Journal, July 2005 Susan Sontag spent two weeks in North Vietnam in 1968, and wrote 90 pages about her experiences. (Perhaps I will cull from those notebooks I kept in Gaza and the West Bank…