Puerto Rico Zen Center has launched a GoFundMe campaign after all of the center’s building were damaged by Hurricane Maria.
But First the News…
A reporter is a lot like a meditator, says NPR journalist Gerry Hadden. Both are on a quest for truth. And ultimately neither finds it.
The Best-Laid Plans
Photo by Amanda Segur.A vomiting child in an airport hotel—it wasn’t the vacation she had in mind. Anne Cushman on the teachings of a trip gone awry.
Send in the Clowns
“Payasos!” a young boy yells down the valley. The hills, so dense with madrone and manzanita they seem canopied in green, echo back. Payasos!-Clowns!
The White Darkness
“Never have I witnessed a phenomenon as raw or as powerful as the spectacle of Vodoun possession.”
Meeting in the Darkness
With the people who live with chronic hopelessness and fear, we try to live comfortably in their darkness. And that’s the hardest thing of all.