A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Look at the world with childlike wonder. Try to see people and things as if for the very first time, like a one-year-old who has not yet learned the names of anything. When memory, judgment, and language loosen their grip, what is left?
Can you sense a vivid, immediate, undivided reality right before your eyes? Does everything feel closer and more intimate? Spend some time today resting in this open space of wonder.
In an excerpt from her book Smile: The Story of a Face, playwright Sarah Ruhl recalls the concept of the original face as she navigates her relationship to herself, her old face, and the face she’s always had.
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