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Laura
Paradoxical. Historically it's been a real challenge for me to live with another person, at least in the past five or so years. It seems to be part of my nature to need solitude almost... More »
Laura
I love this poem. I pulled it from Roger Housden's wonderful anthology Dancing with Joy: 99 Poems. His collections are marvelous. Mind Wanting More Only a beige slat of sun above the horizon, like a... More »
Laura
Awakening to the truth that, as Byron Katie says, THIS is paradise. It's hard to internalize. It takes practice. Practice. and more practice. and learning how to breathe. but I believe it. I also like... More »
Laura
We have to sleep with open eyes; we must dream with our hands. --Octavio Paz
Laura
It is like an English summer day, cool and cloudy, with deep green grass all around the hermitage and trees heavy with foliage. Occasional slow bursts of gentle sunlight that imperceptibly pass by. Shafts of... More »
Laura
Turning the Garden in Middle Age They have lain a long time, these two: parsnip with his beard on his foot, pudding stone with fool's gold in her ear until, under the thrust of my... More »
Laura
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one. --Jorge Luis Borges
Laura
This is worth checking out. Howard Zinn, Cesar Chavez, Derrick Jensen, Dennis Kucinich, Edward Abbey, Joanna Macy, Dahr Jamail, Noam Chomsky, Wendell Berry. Terrific awareness-raising project. http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portrait_thumbs.html
Laura
I can't honestly say that I teach out of sheer altruistic passion. But I love my job and I try to invest myself, soul and mind, in it as deeply as I can. I greet... More »
Laura
There is only one Truth and as you go looking for it through a forest of seeking be careful lest you bump into a tree. That lump on your head may remind you that everything... More »
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