On a wall in my apartment hangs a prayer flag. The image on the flag is taken from a page in spiritual leader Ram Dass’s book Be Here Now. It shows an illustration of a man, stylized like a paper doll, with multiple options for his garb: bohemian, flower child choices...
“Takes all kinds of people to make up a world.” These words were spoken by Kurt Vonnegut’s beloved fictional weirdo, Kilgore Trout, in his book Breakfast of Champions. In the scene, Trout is having a conversation with a truck driver about people with religious beliefs...
These are the last days that we will share with Joanna Macy, as the beloved Buddhist scholar and founder of The Work That Reconnects spends her remaining time in hospice care with her friends and family. Death comes for us all, of course. My Buddhist perspective on...
