Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietmanese Buddhist monk and renowned author, visited Boulder, Colorado regularly when I lived in Colorado in the eighties. Exiled from Vietnam because he did not support the North or the South in the war, he traveled the world as an ambassador for peace. He spent...
Our Summer 2021 Caravans includes reflections on poetry and the pandemic and introduces Fr. Dave’s recent posts on racial...
My life was relatively peaceful in winter 2020 as I savored the first months in my new Arizona home. But hermits aren’t islands, and the darkness of a pandemic, the pain of police brutality, mass shootings, racial unrest and injustice; deaths, deportations and incarcerations along...
In our digital age, I am amazed at how much we have to say, and how quickly, about persons or events. Just as we have a slow-food movement to counter fast-food culture, we need a slow reaction movement. Sometimes speed is essential, and sometimes speed kills. We need discernment. That takes time and discipline. For...