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Surprises

Mopping the kitchen, finding a stamp collection, blaming Shirley Temple

Sister Mary Appassionata Lectures The Eighth Grade Boys And Girls: Every Day Another Snake

Sunbeams

The best politics is right action.

Gandhi

Discipline

Acceptance, obediance, rote movements

More Words . . .

Meditation is the root, the plant, the flower and the fruit. It is words that divide the fruit, the flower, the plant, and the root. In this separation action does not bring about goodness: virtue is the total perception.

Selected Poems

The Tall One

He rolls the flower cart down the sidewalk, and I watch him through the window. Six days a week he goes by with his cart of flowers. He comes by just before visiting hours and stays until all the visitors have gone into the hospital.

Sunbeams

Though no two centuries are very much like each other, some hours perhaps are; moments are; critical moments nearly always are. Emotions are the same. We are the same. The man, not the day, is the lasting phenomenon.

Eudora Welty, “Reality in Chekhov’s Stories”

Selected Stories

A Zen monk and a Catholic priest were walking along a road. They came to a baby crying by the side of the road. The monk did nothing. The priest picked up the baby and held it in his arms. The baby stopped crying, and soon the mother came and took it from the priest.

The Moon

Seeing the moon from the desert, from the Ile de la Cite in Paris, from a starry camping night