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When I die, as I die, may I die with eyes wide open. May I not miss a single moment of going, of ending, and if it is to be so, of coming, of beginning. Even as the walls tumble and the floors break apart and the shelves with tome… [Continue Reading]

“When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has… [Continue Reading]

I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which… [Continue Reading]

Happy New Year, dear friends. It is with a sense of joy and anticipation of surprise that I greet you and the new year on this first day of 2006. The desire to write and connect with you has been gurgling inside me. This afternoon, walking through the Parc La… [Continue Reading]

Friday, 2 December 2005Cambridge, MA Frederic Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Romance/Larghetto The soul sings in this piece in big, wide, sweeping movements, peppered with beautiful, detailed sidebars for the exploring. But even in its beauty and expressive wonder there is an undercurrent of melancholy, and it flows like a… [Continue Reading]

Tuesday, 1 November 2005 Cambridge, MA Tonight I feel lucky to be living in Cambridge. The rents might be higher than most places in the country and it gets mighty cold for the winter which lasts much more than the three months allotted to it by the calendar… But where… [Continue Reading]

This is about food. It’s about body. It’s about control and lack thereof. It’s also about wanting to connect. It’s about wanting to be known. It’s about wanting to be able to talk about things we tend to hide. The Geneen Roth thing worked many years ago, when, after a… [Continue Reading]