![]() ![]() angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, and Jasmine Syedullah represent a new voice in American Buddhism. With national attention focused on the recent killings of unarmed black citizens and the response of the Black-centered liberation groups such as Black Lives Matter, Radical Dharma demonstrates how social transformation and personal, spiritual liberation must be articulated and inextricably linked. Bridging the world of spirit and activism, they urge a compassionate response to the systemic, state-sanctioned violence and oppression that has persisted against black people since the slave era. ![]() ![]() The authors traveled around the country to spark an open conversation that brings together the Black prophetic tradition and the wisdom of the Dharma. Igniting a long-overdue dialogue about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out in society at large and Buddhist communities in particular, this urgent call to action outlines a new dharma that takes into account the ways that racism and privilege prevent our collective awakening. ![]()
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![]() ![]() My mother was from a big, old, Mid-western family that came over on the Mayflower very reserved. I grew up in a family almost between two Americas. ![]() I’m assuming the “mostly true” had nothing to do with James Frey.Īh! We had titled this book before anything happened with James Frey, and the title Mostly True, is taken from a realization that I had about my father. “And a copy of the new book,” Mostly True: A Memoir of Family, Food and Baseball, which was released last week, and which O’Neill was gracious enough to discuss on-the-fly. “Oh, we need to go to Powell’s and get you a new copy,” said O’Neill, seeing the spatters and stains and missing pages on the 1992 classic, written when she was food columnist for the New York Times Magazine. Last Friday morning, I received a call from an acquaintance, saying, “Molly O’Neill is in town do you think you have time to interview her?” I said, I’ll make time, and in fact, will crawl with O’Neill’s New York Cookbook in my teeth for a chance to meet her. Reader Survey: Best Coffeehouses in Portland 2017.A Map of our favorite Portland coffeehouses.Interviews: Honest dialog with people in the Portland food industry.Reader Survey: Best of Portland Food 2017. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And who wouldn't sympathise with Lord Emsworth when he declares: "Look here Connie … You know I hate literary fellows. ![]() Safe not least because burrowing any deeper would put us firmly into the camp of the poets and poseurs that Lady Constance Keeble has started to inflict on her poor old brother at Blandings Castle. I think it's probably safest to assume that the only thing that really matters is that these sartorial notes are funny and help conjure up that magical inter-war world. But in Wodehouse, it just seems too much like over-explaining the joke, like attaching too much weight to an admirably light book. Why does he present Lord Emsworth "mould-stained and wearing a deplorable old jacket"? When we first meet Psmith, is it important that we are treated to the sight of "a very tall, very thin, very solemn young man, gleaming in a speckless top hat and a morning coat of irreproachable fit"? If this were Shakespeare I'd be looking for great significance in the similar descriptions that run throughout the book. Maybe it's possible to make something of the hilarious moral qualities Wodehouse ascribes to clothing. The truth is that I'd feel like I was attacking a soufflé with a pickaxe if I were to start hacking around for deep themes, dark images and political implications. ![]() |