I Love Self-Righteous People!
Dear Bella Levenshteyn I’m astounded on a daily basis: The hand-written letters I receive From dear ones via the USPS!!! In my circle of near and far-flung friends We are keeping alive this art form…
General William Dupuy’s Utter Confidence in the Efficacy of State Terrorism
The solution in Vietnam is more bombs more shells more napalm… until the other side cracks and gives up Source Christian Apply, Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides
Dear Layla/Welcome to Palestine: Table of Contents
Part One Instant Message (4:32 a.m.) Part Two Cover Letter Part Three Roads/1 Modus Operandi/1 Invitation/1 Invitation/2 Lexicon/1 Being Present/1 What Some People Say/1 A Cup of Tea/1 (Fullness and Emptiness/1) Lexicon/2 A Little Taste/1
Share the Wealth with Jim and Diana Oleskevich on Sunday 15 February 2015
We will share a few experiences (on the streets, meeting new people, trainings) we’ve had since Michael Brown was killed and how our heart/spiritual perspective on white privilege/black oppression in the current system of life…
“Be in Love with Yr Life”*: A Spring Writing Course
Like Sontag and Beseda, many of us are tempted to be intolerant of the ambiguity and intimidated by the risks of photography and other art forms. Ultimately, I believe we are most daunted by the…
It’s OK
It’s OK to forget to do gratitudes when you most need them It’s OK to be grumpy for between seven and nine minutes It’s OK to feel like everyone is smarter than you (but for…
After Watson’s Translation #100 of Han-shan
for Chris Do you have the scribbles of Shimmelstoy in your bookmarks? They’re better for you than the Lotus Sutra! “Like,” share, and read them over and over– The bodhisattva in those verses is really only you!
Metta for a Psychiatrist
May you be filled with loving kindness For the kids on the edge of urban doom May you be well Unfazed by the hourly bureaucratic hoops May you be peaceful and at ease Before the…
No Comfort (excerpt from The Book of Mev)
There was the wailing wall in my study: How many minutes did I mediate on those photographs of Mev, how many tears fell, how many screams of mine ascended to Cathy Nolan’s ears upstairs, how…
No Birth No Death (After a Sangha Discussion on the Lotus Sutra)
In ten years (or thirty) Thich Nhat Hanh will still be among the living Just like today I will see him in your smile