Last night, I had to trek up to the cities for a get-together with people from the film/screenwriting community, and on my way up, I listened to the latest podcast of MPR’s Speaking of Faith with Thich Nhat Hanh, a well-known and revered Zen master and poet who did an unusual thing during the Vietnam […]
Moses and the Shepherd
For some time now, I’ve enjoyed the brief encounters I’ve had with Rumi’s thoughts and poems. Rumi, by way of introduction, is a 13th century Persian mystic who wrote down bits of wisdom along the way, and we are the joyful recipients of it. You may be familiar with this quote from “A Great Wagon”–a […]
Evolution and Charles Darwin
Dan and I and little L. have recently flown to a faraway tropical island. On the plane I tried to catch up on my Speaking of Faith podcasts. One in particular, that I’d been eager to listen to, was “Evolution and Wonder: Understanding Charles Darwin.” You’d think that since my training was in the biological […]
So Much To Say
Yesterday morning, I received the most haunting and devastating e-mail from a long-lost friend. All day, his e-mail hung in the foreground of my mind, and I couldn’t shake it. It’s one of those correspondences that makes you shiver, shake, and cry, and immediately, you want to drive over to where he is, and wrap […]
Novelist as God & Clever Learning Ideas
This week’s Speaking of Faith broadcast “Novelist as God” piqued my interest, for in the outlining and writing of Eve, I was playing God. I had to ponder questions like: Was the Garden a perfect place? Did Adam and Eve have sex in the Garden? Did Adam and Eve have children in the Garden? Were […]