In the daily metta practice with which I start my meditation, I reiterate the wish to be free from animosity. It's easy enough when it c...

THE ART OF PERSONAL AND POLITICAL ASSASSINATION : Some Thoughts on the Tour de France and the Shirley Sherrod Fiasco In the men’s work i...

... Barack Obama's "Dreams from My Father." I read "The Audacity of Hope" earlier last year, when I was still debat...

I normally manage to remain in control of my emotions when I read the newspaper--short, in recent years, of those bouts of anger reading abo...

... all the chliches are exhausted, all the histories recorded, all the superlatives super'led. What's Left to say? (Hmmm, I notic...