peace in a time of fear
March 16, 2020
Coronavirus fever is at high pitch. My experience thus far, knock on wood, has been limited to news headlines, of which there are an overwhelming number ...
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June 1, 2019
Mexican-American artist Enrique Chiu has created a mural project for peace along the U.S./Mexico border. Chiu came to the States with his mother when he was 8, and is coordinating a bi-national effort to create an artistic response to Trump’s anti-immigrant politics. He has named it “The Mural of Brotherhood,” and it is filled with […]
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March 18, 2019
To be in a hurry in Mexico is to miss the point. I am writing this not from theory but from practice, as I sit here waiting for a taxi at the botanic gardens just outside of town. You see, Mexico operates on a much different sense of time than its northern neighbor. In the […]
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July 11, 2016
There is nothing like nature to remind me that we live in a universe of abundance. The minutia of our day-to-day lives so easily robs us of this awareness. So during a recent stop at Big Sur on a drive back down the coast from northern CA, the majestic views were like a drink for […]
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