Archive for January, 2007

A Snippet of a Conversation in Class

I’ll keep this brief and let you draw out the meaning of this part of a conversation we had yesterday in class about “studying.” “Why do you underline or highlight what you’re reading in the textbook?” I asked. “So I can go back over it,” Sheila (not her real name) volunteered. “Why do you want [...]

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A few thoughts.

I am an activist. I actively have discussions with myself, usually on my pre-dawn meditative walks. But, for the past month I’ve been grounded by this cold that has been hanging on and on and on and on. So, this balmy January springy morning I had a pre-dawn conversation with myself by the fishpond. It’s [...]

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Joyful Time

Can’t sleep. Can’t go out on the streets. Coughing. Coughing. Coughing. Hope each of you had a joyous holiday season. I did–and didn’t. Susan and I had spent the week of Chanukah in California lighting up our lives by spoiling the grandkids. Unfortunately, our little, mischievous, “two and three-quarter” year old Nina gave both us, [...]

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