mindful monday : sit in.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the moment when people just like you and I said "enough." They sat. And because they sat, we live the lives we are living now. "Fifty years ago, on Feb. 1, four black college students sat down at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter in …
thinking thursday.
mind :: my brain and yours The State of the Union Address. I'm reminded each time how easy it is to criticize and how much harder it is to help. Cynicism is a negative intention. This is as true now as it was during the Bush administration. I'm trying to …
poetry wednesday : it takes all your muscle to keep your own life upright
no one expects you to save the world –maya stein The headlines are begging for your help. Thousands needing homes, food.But here, your own children, like inexpert stilt-walkers, flirt too oftenwith obstacles in the street. It’s no wonder you keep eyes gluedto them. The demands of love, or a job, …
thinking thursday.
Let's imagine it's still Thursday. Yesterday was a day of canceled flights and mechanical failures and missed connections and airport food and fun, so here's Thinking Thursday just a tad late. mind :: my brain and yours Let's take a class at Yale. An exercise in changing yourself. A field …
poetry wednesday : you, me, us
white-out It was as if someone had changed the channelfrom placid vista into television static.For a second, all I saw was blindness, a sudden jumblethat erased the swaying trees, the ski trails slickfrom that day’s chairlift offspring. Even the guidepostsof the highway were gone. I realize I could be talkingabout …
thinking thursday : haiti
Here is my post on Facebook this morning: The people in Haiti love their children and parents and partners and lives just as we do. Lean toward them. Help in any way you can. Inaction is an action. Do something. Six Ways You Can Help in Haiti : the author …
poetry wednesday : the diameter of the bomb.
The Diameter of the Bomb The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range – about seven meters. And in it four dead and eleven wounded. And around them in a greater circle of pain and time are scattered two hospitals and one cemetery. …
step into magic. in your living room.
Need to recharge, refocus, re-energize? All without leaving the comfort of your own home? I'm delighted to participate this year in Jennifer Louden's Virtual Retreat, a weekend chock full of great speakers and content and retreating for folks like you who want to refocus–where you are. In your pajamas. Here's …
Chicago, Chicago, Chicago. Soon, Soon, Soon.
I know, I know. Some people go South in the winter months to get warmer, to flee the air that crystallizes the moment it hits your lungs, to avoid the shoveling, the frostbite, the bad hat hair. I am flinging all that to the winds and going to Chicago to …
the seams are hid from us, you see. the joinery.
"So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What …
