This morning I woke up before the alarm went off. I do this sometimes. I generally wake up and get out of bed at 5 a.m. because I like the silence of the early morning, before the traffic increases in the streets outside my windows and my husband gets up and puts on the TV …
M lived a precarious life. As an immigrant, from a poor country, a country that the world thought had nothing to give but poor, untrained, backwards masses – and speaking with such a heavy accent – she faced discrimination every day. And, having had very little schooling, her skills were basic: she could cook. And …
I was on the bus once, a city bus in a neighborhood with a lot of affluent older white people. A crowd of people got on, loud teens, laughing. One of them stood out, a really large African-American man, baggy pants, stretched out t-shirt, long jacket, hat turned to the side, big chains, larger than …
There are many people in this world who believe that life is a zero-sum game. In other words, that everything in the world is finite and, if you get a little more, then they get a little less. We are all guilty of this thinking to some extent. Even Thich Naht Hanh writes of catching …
Sometimes I lie in bed and wait for the alarm to go off. Do you know that feeling? You awaken, maybe you have to go to the bathroom or your feet hurt and you want to circle them around, wake them up so they stop hurting? But your spouse or your cat is lying beside …
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