Start with a Postcard

Seriously, send me some of yr random ricochet words Old school style via USPS Your wild mind that existed eons before TFA Your dream mind that will be glowing long after the NSA

For Amal and Amal

The enemy is all about erasure Tactics: derision and denial Insults and salt in the wounds When you’re a student of history It’s no surprise— That’s what the powerful do So tell them over and…

Word of the Day: Apokatastasis

Allen Ginsberg: …The conditions of revolution in late twentieth century are conditions unforeseen by any other civilization. We are going to the moon, we have drugs that go to the moon inside, we’ve recovered the…

Memory is a Mysterious Thing

When  I was reading Proust And about 200 pages into Swann’s Way I suddenly remembered  a friend Who had told me about his friend Whose father was the CEO of a major transnational corporation & Whose…

Somos amantes de la poesía

Querida Doctora (que es tan querida), Una pregunta:  ¿Te gusta Neruda? Si “sí,” entonces usted está calificada para introducirnos a Pablo. Este es un grupo de aficionadas. Por favor, considere compartir con nosotras. Afectuosamente, Marcos

Priorities

The concern for the other breaches concern for the self. This is what I call holiness. Our humanity consists in being able to recognize this priority of the other. Emmanuel Levinas, Is It Righteous to Be?…

Crosses, Values, Options

1. “Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety.  Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies:  the wider we open our hearts…

Spiritual Exercises

Last year I read several books by French philosopher Pierre Hadot, who has focused on the role of spiritual exercises in philosophy. Through Hadot, I became acquainted with this short passage from a diary kept…