A man stands, arms tightly clenched across his chest, and the child retreats. The man opens his arms wide like wings, and the child jumps into his embrace. A woman shears the hedge between backyards as a neighbor ambles up on the other side. Their words pass easefully over the green divide. When a boy throws a rock hard against a wall, it boomerangs back and hits him. When […]
Gerard Sarnat | Mudita Off the Dharma Seat
“Lord, kiss me once more, fill me with song Allah, kiss me once more that I may, that I may Wear my love like heaven.” — Donovan Let’s knock off an equanamous poem perhaps someone can understand. Uncruel February Sunday. Lovers or friends, Moms and dads teach kids to ride bicycles kindness despite politics. Dogs chase dolphins and Frisbees into the glass waves along the curling of the shore. Old […]
Love as a political force | An interview with Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual author and lecturer who is now a candidate for president of the United States, running as a Democrat. Six of her 13 books have been New York Times bestsellers, and four have topped the list. In 1997, she published Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens, a book offering an insightful examination of our history and politics, with personal […]
Mitch Toews | The Toboggan Run
Hart’s breath hangs in the air around his head and the sunshine makes splinters of floating ice into glinting flashes, gone in an instant. His long woolen scarf, creased canvas parka and red toque are all hoary with frost. Heavy leather work mitts, wet and steaming, cover his hands. After first laying out a winding trail in the snow and marking its course with twigs, he sets to stamping and […]
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