“To Lissy Espinoza” (So Many Discharges)
The truth is, I’ve already got anticipatory blues that you are leaving soon [one and a half tears] Even if it’s for only umpteen weeks [sharp rise in temperature] I’m aware it’s not like forever…
Share the Wealth with Fatima Rhodes: Walking with the Iraqis
On Sunday 21 October, Fatima Rhodes will share stories of her work with Iraqi refugees who have recently come to St. Louis. Join us for a potluck supper beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the home…
Forget Pessimism
Just this morning I came across the following exchange with Noam Chomsky, which reminded me of what Steve said last night in his talk on Syria… Interviewer: Did you go through a phase of hopelessness,…
From Wendy Lee in NYC
“Writing meditation – possibly one of the most valuable things I’ve ever learned. Thanks, Dr. C!”
A Journalist/1
1. The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. –Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting 2. She had first traveled to Vietnam in 1955, glad to see that…
A Prayer
1. The following prayer was composed by Dr. Gordon Livingston, who graduated from West Point and did three tours in Vietnam as a surgeon with the 11th Armored Calvary Regiment. At a 1968 ceremony for…
Community: The Structure of Belonging
Jean Durel, Jim and J’Ann Allen will share their perspectives and lead a discussion on Peter Block’s book, Community: The Structure of Belonging at the Allens’ home on 4519 Oakland Avenue in the Forest Park…
Julian Assange, Enemy of the State
Listen to Julian Assange speak from the Ecuador’s embassy in London to a side meeting of the UN General Assembly last Wednesday.
Reading Can Change Your Life (Or At Least Your Friday Night)/Patisotagami*
“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 with the…
Some French writer once posed this question: “Do you want to be read one time by 10,000 people, or 10,000 times by one person?”
I could identify with some of the following, as regards both The Book of Mev and Dear Layla…. “Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people…