Now that I know everyone’s top ten albums, what about books? If I was packing and could only bring ten books, I’d pick the following…wrapped in sheets of poems numerous as styrofoam peanuts, of course… (Rilke! Rumi! Sexton! Whitman! the Beats!) And if I contradict myself…well, you know what Walt says…. 1.  Catcher in the Rye …

As mentioned by I.D. Project Board Member and all-around homie Jerry in class on Monday Night, the video and story: “This is the video from Beijing to the song that my boyfriend [wrote in NYC] in 2002. The song is called Taboo and it’s about how much we love playing the board game Taboo with…

Hey Everyone… I just saw this amazing movie/documentary called “The Dhamma Brothers”. It is the story of the Alabam prison system introducing intensive Vipassana meditation retreats into their prisoner treatment programs. I had seen “Doing Time, Doing Vipassana” which is about the introduction of meditation into prisons in India… also amazing and I highly recommend…

It’s a rare day that things in the office where I work are slow, but this week couldn’t be more dead. My boss is at the London Book Fair. Her assistant is “busy” re-naming files on our network drive. And I’ve incurred three centuries’ worth of reincarnation as a silverfish for the manuscript rejection letters…

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