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XXIX. NO Free­man shall be taken or impris­oned, or be dis­seised of his Free­hold, or Lib­er­ties, or free Cus­toms, or be out­lawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor con­demn him, but by law­ful judg­ment of his Peers, or by the Law of the land. We will […]

This is John the Evan­ge­list, who wrote the Gospel of John.  John was the wit­ness, the dis­ci­ple who was always in the right place at the right time.  The eagle that soars into the sky, hold­ing a man­u­script in its talons, is a  metaphor for his faith. Some 700 years after the death of Christ, a […]

The tents stretched for acres, refuge to the hun­dreds of thou­sands that were flee­ing the ris­ing waters of the Mis­sis­sippi. The pud­dles in the alleys were symp­toms of the land’s ill­ness. It was spring­time in 1927. The rain had started the year before, lash­ing tor­rents, steady down­pours, mist­ing driz­zles over hun­dreds of miles. Some days they […]

An essen­tial step for­ward is the devel­op­ment of a fit­ting order of the day: a divi­sion of the day that gives a rhythm to the day, with a rea­son­ably fixed pat­tern of exer­tion and relax­ation, of spir­i­tual breath­ing in and breath­ing out, of order­ing one’s envi­ron­ment and moments when one is in touch with something […]

  The over­crowded mind can lead to an unset­tled soul. Over the years I’ve learned to trust my tech­niques for qui­et­ing my mind. I let my con­scious­ness float, drift into an unde­fined space that sus­pends the for­ward momen­tum of thought, qui­ets down the chat­ter and waits for a struc­ture to form. Even as I wait the […]

Yes­ter­day I flew from the east coast to Los Ange­les and watched two movies that were uncanny in the sim­i­lar­ity of their view of the human con­di­tion. The moral syn­chronic­ity was more star­tling for the cul­tural chasm between the two films: the uber-Wasp cor­po­rate real­ity of the Reit­man broth­ers’ Up in the Air and the […]