The Way It Didn’t Turn Out

When the Roman pontiff Stood at the Bethlehem Wall All he had to do was summon The courage and compassion To afflict the comfortable And comfort the afflicted And say “Palestine must be free”

Share the Wealth: Rim to Rim to Rim

This Sunday Mark Cross and  Taggart Long will share their peak experiences from last September doing a run/walk from the South rim of the Grand Canyon to the North rim and then back to the…

So You Went Out on a Date and …

He didn’t ask you to recite one of your favorite poems? She shakes her head He didn’t ask you to recite one of your own poems? “Nope” Didn’t he Google you, come across your blog?…

Share the Wealth: L’Arche St. Louis

From our friend Justin Lorenz: Founded by Jean Vanier in France in 1964, L’Arche (French for “the Ark”) communities bear witness to the reality that persons with intellectual disabilities possess inherent qualities of welcome, wonderment, spirituality, and…

The Moon Cannot Be Stolen

Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of a mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing in it…

Fragments on Teaching & Learning/1

And there was some point as a professor at Stanford and Harvard when I experienced being in some kind of meaningless game in which the students were exquisite at playing the role of students and…

The Things People Say

for CMB He (well-meaning, sixty-something): You need to hurry up and get a boyfriend, there’s only a few years left for you to have babies, so you need to get moving, go to church, say…