This morning, I selected a guided meditation on gratitude from the meditation app that I use. I wasn’t looking for a gratitude meditation, I was looking for a Bodhisattva meditation but this was the closest I could find. At first, I was put off by the style of the recording. It felt overproduced, with that …
I woke up this morning with that silly Oompa Loompa song in my head. The one that keeps asking, "What do you do with a child that's a brat?" And what do you do? That, and the memory of my favorite aunt. She has always been my favorite aunt, as far back as I could …
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 …
Last week was kind of a crazy week for me. Leave aside the rising Covid rates. Leave aside the increasingly dangerous warning signs that the White House is abandoning democracy in favor of dictatorship. Leave aside the fact that US citizens must once again protest the death of an unarmed African American. And that, in …
One of my high school friends, reconnected after a long drifting apart, told me that his mother, when she finally let go of her senses, found a peace with life and a friendliness that she certainly never had when she was younger. It was as if, he said, she forgot to be that person that …
