Maybe we need different places for different phases of our lives. Maybe cherished places remain alive inside us even if we have to move on—our attachment to the earth not thinned, but widened.
~Deborah Tall , “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place” ~
Mother died at 90 last May Day. It seems like an ocean of time and then, hardly any time at all. You can read more about my mother on the “Sightlines” portion of this site on the Sweet Little Dove page including: * Ruth Thompson Life Story * Mother’s Memorial Service And the poems: *Under…
In 2006 I published my book “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary”with iUniverse. While my first-line audience was friends and family, I quickly found there were second-third-and-fourth-line audiences rippling out there who were interested in my book, my topic, and by extension, in me and what I thought and had to say. I marketed “Sightlines” by every…
Last spring His Holiness the Dalai Lama Visited the Bay Area and gave extraordinary teachings on In Praise of Dependent Origination Free audios (both downloads and online MP3 player) of these Dependent Origination teachings which His Holiness gave in San Francisco are now available in Tibetan and English translation. Click here. The video recording on…
To greet you today, I’m offering you some links as gifts. For the meaning of the lighting the darkness at Solstice, read Susan J. Tweit’s Community of the Land’s post on how Luminarias light the night. I agree…nothing like rows on rows of luminarias and the smell of pinon under the startling clarity of a…
If you want in-depth information on one of the most important issues facing the American economy today, read this article on mortgage lending in the SSRN’s Working Paper Series, co-written by ELIZABETH RENUART and my niece DIANE E. THOMPSON. ORGANIZATION: Social Science Research Network: Tomorrow’s Research Today TITLE: “The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing…
A creative person has to create. It doesn’t really matter what you create. If such a dancer wanted to go out and build the cactus gardens where he could, in Mexico, let him do that, but something that is creative has to go on. —Katherine Dunham…click here to read her bio in the Black Collegian.