Calm Amid Its Rage

“How are you?” “Just living the national nightmare,” I say. Everyone finds it charming. Wednesday morning, I said, “Are you okay?” to someone, and she said, “Oh, I’m fine, I would’ve been upset if Hillary won, too. I’ve followed that Benghazi stuff pretty closely.” “Oh,” I said. It’s okay to vote for a demagogue if his […]

Shielded

Voting for Hillary Clinton was nothing like voting for Obama. I was teary-eyed voting for Obama, it felt like a boil we’d had forever was getting lanced and cleaned. I was worried my students would be crushed if he lost. I was worried Sarah Palin would touch something sharp if she got any real power. […]

The Side of the Rock

Do you guess I have some intricate purpose? Well, I have, for the Four-month showers have, and the mica on the side of the rock has. First week of new job, I had to show up at a different place, at a different time, every day. First day going way out to Queens, I […]

Skeletons Warming Themselves

I didn’t know three people who died this week. On Thursday, my meditation group mourned a parishioner who was shot by the police. I never met her. They talked about how okay Ms Danner was when she was okay, how you would never know she was ill. Someone held a piece of her knitting, just as the […]