May 1988
Practical Enlightenment
An Interview With Charles T. Tart
It takes courage to realize, for instance, that you may have been living a life mostly programmed by other people — a life that has nothing to do with your real needs.
Roses On Fire
My mother sang and laughed. She had dark hair that gradually turned silver. She felt that no matter how little the money or how bad the loss, it was OK to have fun.
Hunches On Childhood
(Or Everything I Want To Say About World Peace)
The way we hold our children is the way we hold our future.
I Stand Here Ironing
We were poor and could not afford for her the soil of easy growth. I was a young mother, I was a distracted mother. There were the other children pushing up, demanding.
Bobby D And The Boys
Robert DeNiro is getting into character. He’s been talking to his agent about doing some kind of working-class movie, something set in the steel mills of Gary, Indiana, or the factories of New Jersey.