“water pooling on the desert after a hard rain” ZJC (2007)
We all have our prayers for the dead. This is mine for SPC Lori Ann Piestewa (December 14, 1979 – March 23, 2003). She was a U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps and is remembered as the first woman killed in the 2003 Iraq war […]
I have been thinking all week of the assassination last Friday in Istanbul of Hrant Dink, a prominent Turkish journalist of Armenian descent, by Turkish Nationalists. While it failed to make news here in the States it sparked International outrage in Europe, Turkey and Armenia. In a BBC report:
“The speaker of Armenia’s […]
“cherry tree in winter” ZJC (2007)
Walk with grief like a good friend.
Listen to what he says.
– Rumi
When I am being honest with myself, though I strive for high and noble emotions like compassion and love, the emotion I carry with me daily, right now as you read this, is sorrow, heartbreak, grief. I feel […]
Tales of fortunate and misfortunate love between the living and spirit world fascinates me. In Japan there are stories concerning “Yuki-onna, the Snow Woman … [whose] custom is to appear in snowstorms … [she] is young and has an extremely beautiful body and a seemingly gentle disposition” (Piggott, 69) though taking a Snow Woman […]
“shmutzy girl” ZJC (2007)
I am vaguely Jewish, in the sense that my father’s people came from around the city of Minsk in Belarus; but, since my mother is Italian-Irish and doesn’t have a hasidic bone in her body technically I am not kosher. Still, I do have an English-Yiddish Dictionary and that has supplied […]