SUMMER INTENSIVES “Summer requires fearlessness. Spring can be fearful; for its blossoms apprehension is like a home. But fruit requires a calm and heavy sun.” Rilke, The Florence Diary, May […]
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Next week I’ll be going down to Montalvo to teach a week of poetry + gardening for kids as part of Montalvo’s Summer Camps program. I taught this class last summer too and
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[i wrote this in 2010, but it keeps coming up so i’m reposting it now…] When I came upon the Facebook splash page for the first time, about a year
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Looking forward to teaching this workshop at the SF Zen Center with Shundo Haye in a few weeks~ Saturday, May 3, 2014 10 am – 5 pm REGISTER HERE What
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Retreat. I bristle at this word because it projects two worlds. It suggests backing away from something pernicious, onerous, oppressive into some promise of a space free of that. It connects
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Here are some random notes on innovation I wrote for a friend who asked me to think about the topic. Innovation. The new. It’s a matter of scale. Of
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On my way to SFAI one morning i came upon this scene at the corner of Lombard and Chestnut. A guy in a bathrobe stood in his doorway talking into
Here’s the beginning of an essay that recently appeared on Essay Daily’s Advent Calendar. ADVENT 12/15: Genine Lentine on Michael Cunningham & the Nemesis No Way but by Such Stairs:
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