“Our Fathers”
This year I was moved to write a poem to My Father. Read my poem here. Happy Father’s Day, Lynda My Father died tomorrow, twenty five years ago. What a big soul, scared baby and complicated father. With the voice of a clear bell he longed to sing for others. Yet he had no voice […]
On Listening
One Saturday evening, months before the election, I got into a cab in New York City and almost immediately, the driver asked me—straight out— “who are you voting for?” I told him. Then I asked him, “who are you voting for?” And thus, we began. I was voting for Hillary Clinton and he was voting […]
The Evolution of Humanity
Last Friday evening I was at a dinner party and something a guest said pierced my heart deeply: what our world needs is the “Evolution of Humanity.” In these three beautiful words I heard the music of a dream that I have be longing for since childhood. I often talk about taking the journey from […]
