That Brazilian Spirit!
An important discovery is gratuity. That is, giving time and space for what’s not anticipated, what comes from God, from the future. Availability—not being a prisoner to our projects and plans. And hospitality. This is…
Share the Wealth with Lizzie Corcoran: El Salvador, En Camino
I got to spend a month this summer with the Casa de Solidaridad in El Salvador. It was a public health program that was focused on walking in communities and learning about public health and…
100 Years
In 2011 several friends and I met to discuss The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs, who passed away this week at the age of 100. The following passage comes from that book: Each…
Forest Park Community College, F Building, 4th Floor
Taken near the elevator
On Loyola’s Fridge
–Thomas Merton, HHDL Loyola Walter’s apartment Clifton, Cincinnati, Ohio
Magan Wiles in San Francisco
October 2015
Reading and Signing of “Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine” on Saturday 24 October
Friends at Sophia House are hosting a book reading and signing of my recent novel, Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine. I and those present will take turns reading aloud a few of the short chapters…
Friends
On a retreat at Lake of the Ozarks, Penny Smith, Cristina Cousins, Emma Shaw, Sarah Bollinger, and Lindsay Sihilling sent me their greetings. Such fortune to know them!
Cab Yau, Looking Like the Young Juliette Binoche
Sasha’s on DeMun; Russian Novel Reading Group; Thursday 1 October 2015
The Gradual, Lifelong Construction of a State of Wonder and Serenity
On Tim Page, Glenn Gould: A Life in Pictures This is a book in celebration of what would have been GG’s 70th birthday; it’s a short book, consisting overwhelmingly of photos of the eccentric, the…