The Thread of One’s Anger — Jean-Paul Sartre
I always felt I had to stay in contact with the world, with my world. Ever since Marx, philosophy must lead to action. Otherwise it is irrelevant. So a philosopher does what he has to…
Metta Aspiration by Penny Smith & Mark Chmiel
Metta upon waking up in the morning Metta upon waking up in snaked snarky traffic jam Metta toward the beloved Metta toward the janitor Metta for those sitting in jail cells Metta for your boss…
Interstate Vision
Headed toward Indianapolis See exit for Ronald Reagan Parkway I think of 1980s See a small mountain Of Central American corpses Women & children & men The slaughtered The disappeared At the hands of contras,…
Fourth of July 2014
God did bless America! With Daniel Ellsberg Chelsea Manning & Edward Snowden America, land of these three free America, home of these three brave
Share the Wealth with Priya Sirohi on Sunday 13 July: “The Person in the Graduate Student”
Graduate school, especially in the humanities, doesn’t merely demand most of our time and energy – it’s a holistic process of transformation. It demands personality changes and a revised attitude toward the world. For this…
Share the Wealth June 22, with Sister Jean Abbott: Report Back on Uganda
Sister Jean Abbott will share with us about her most recent trip to Uganda to work with people who were traumatized during the country’s civil war. She’ll give us historical background and perspectives on the…
Compromismo/2 (Reading/3)
Dear Professor So last night I went with my friends to this bar The same bar they’ve been going to for two years Drinking the same overpriced drinks they always drink Making the same chit-chat…
The Bonds of Smoking (Checkpoint/1 [Life under Occupation/2])
“I had my peaceful priorities Healthy habits I tried cultivating nerves of steel Or so I thought My Buddhist practice Gives me techniques for dealing with stress Like repeating one of the classic mantras or…
Share the Wealth with Jenn Reyes Lay: Organizing to Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex
The United States leads the world in percentage of its population that it incarcerates, every 1 in 100 people is currently either incarcerated or on probation or parole, and the rates of incarceration have increased…
Leçon de français d’aujourd’hui
Un poème de Thich Nhat Hanh Ne dites pas, je serai parti demain, car je ne cesse de naître, aujourd’hui encore. Regardez en profondeur : je nais à chaque seconde bourgeon sur une branche printanière,…