Meditations

Written in the Margins of Ginsberg’s “Why I Meditate” There are 10,000 reasons to meditate (at least) There are 10,000 beings to save (for starters) There are 10,000 demented states of consciousness to purify (carpe…

Reasons of State Or Reasons of Memory

First published in The Ecumenist, 1997.   Edward T. Linenthal, Preserving Memory:  The Struggle to Create America’s Holocaust Museum. New York:  Penguin USA, 1995. $27.95, U.S.A; $36.99, Canada.   Throughout this spring, there have been several…

Hamas and Ourselves

1. U.S.  critics refer to  “Hamas’s genocidal charter” as odious.  No doubt it is.  Of course, the U.S. was a practitioner of genocide of the indigenous population across this land.  Perhaps a few of those…