After Ginsberg’s “I Meditate”
I meditate to calm my rampaging mind I meditate to focus on clear image of you smiling in Tahoe I meditate on words (translated) of Wang Yang-ming I meditate to be able to be present…
Thesis 11, Still
One reader of an early draft of Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine Wrote me with characteristic candor: “Damn you! It fucking hurt to read this book And thank you! It was the final push I…
Training Exercise #1 for Urban Cultural Resistance
When driving Do a full stop (Three seconds) At each stop sign
Mail!
Cami’s letters
What’s on My Mind …
for Wendy Lee How to relax How to listen to Gould’s recording of Bach’s Toccata in D Major How to observe like David Grossman How to stay open amid any outbreaks of intransigence How to make…
Message from Courtney Barrett on Manuscript of What Eventually Became “Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine”
“Reading your manuscript is like experiencing a tasting menu…lots of flavor, variety, surprises, intertwining themes and yet each chapter can stand alone…evoking a litany of emotions…leaving me satisfied and yet wanting more. May I suggest…
Thich Nhat Hanh, proponent of non-dualism (or, interbeing) said: “Plum Village is everywhere.” So is Belgravia Court.
Present Moment
Salvation seems to be a movement toward redemption in the midst of the trials of existence, one moment of peace and tenderness in the midst of daily violence, beautiful music that calms our spirit, a…
Voltaire
“What put me off studying the law,” [Voltaire] later told his friend the marquis d’Argenson in 1739, “was the vast amount of useless rubbish they wanted to load into my brain. ‘Get to the point,’…
From Me to You
I know there is much on your mind School, bureaucracy, the future, etc. I want to offer you something I wouldn’t say this to just anyone (But maybe someone else Has already given you what…