This year I have invited people to participate in an Arab Writers in Translation Reading Circle. Last month, several friends and I met to discuss Egyptian writer Nawal El-Saadawi’s 1983 Memoirs from the Women’s Prison,…
Leonardo packing up the Mona Lisa in 1516 to live near the King of France You have to be ready for ridicule The plane plops on the beach in 1903 after just a minute You…
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
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…
This week I’ve had these eerie premonitions (I really need to say my mantram a few thousand times to Sri Anandamayi Ma) “Eerie” because of my selfishness Premonitions that you will be going to San…
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…
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…
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
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?…
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…