Author: mktdaf
Poetry of music: The place of loving in each of us, as infants….
From Shantala: My heart has been broken by the violence, polarization and xenophobia that have been escalating so much in recent weeks. If things had been like this in 1933 when my father’s family came to the US to escape the Nazis, I simply would have never been born. I’ve felt deepening anger, despair, sadness…
Writings: Thankfulness & gratitude, with Ezra Bayda
One of my favorite quotes from the Buddha is: “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let…
Well, thanks…
As people say in Canada, this is the week of American Thanksgiving (instead of October’s version), but any day, it’s as good time as any to give thanks, and feel the warm glow of gratitude. I hope you have a good week, no matter where you are. And I just wanted to let you know it makes…
Thoughts: The Peace of Wild Things, with Wendell Berry
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and…