Om Satyam Shivam Sundaram
If you’ve ever … put your faith in a guru traveled to India and were blown away and never took a single drug recited a mantram throughout the day memorized part of chapter 2 of…
Summer Reading, 2009
I recently found this in an old file… CHINA Annping Chin, The Authentic Confucius: A Life of Thought and Politics David Hinton, Selected Poems of Wang Wei D.C. Lau, trans. Mencius Andrew Plaks, trans.,…
In Forest Park
Thanks to Lori Hirst, who encouraged me to head over to Forest Park to see the Monarch butterflies.
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…