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Last night, I got the call that Lama Gyatso had passed away. I am so glad for him and for all of us who knew him. I know that with every last breath, every last moment, he was in meditation and dedicating whatever merit might come from his life AND death to all of us. I know he knew what he was doing, and he died in the presence of his most ( Read more... )

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I wrote this a while back... and as I walked the gloom and autumnal fire of campus this morning, contemplating the epic tragedies I've been privy to in the last 24 hours, I was reminded of it again...

Line in the Snow

Julio te cuidó
lleno de miel
sunset coins;
nights were warm and you slept
with your palms
over your breast--
respiraban junto a ti.

Winter's ( Read more... )

Philomene Long passed away last week.  The latest in a string of deaths I've been privy to in the past few months.  I miss the fact that I won't get to work with her again.  She was a pretty awesome poetry coach.  She had tremendous glimmer, and the world was more magical when she was around.  I'm never going to forget her spirit, nor our dinner ( Read more... )

it's been coming up a lot the past few months. so many deaths. today, I went to the funeral of one of my old student's father. the mass was neither here nor there as I found the majority of it highly ingenuine. the burial, however, was the first time that i've ever been gathered around a real gravesite with mourners. it was mostly anti-climactic, ( Read more... )