Last night the barricades came down from Zuccotti Park due to some good work by the ACLU and core activists. While I wandered out of some meetings at Charlotte’s Place, I happened upon the first barricades coming down. It was kind of magical to be there, before the word got out, before anyone really knew [...]
A little over a year ago, the Phoenix myth came to live with me. I saw her in Buddhist texts and in poems on tea. In the wings of the Phoenix myth, across cultures, was a sense of depth: the Phoenix was calling me to really accept life’s need to end and renew itself. In [...]
I walked up the stairs this morning, eating a toasted everything bagel. I sat down by the Eastern barricades. Immediately, I was offered money. “Hey, we’ve got free money in a box.” I smiled, said no thanks and then we, the guy and the serene girl to his right, we began to talk. In this [...]
Last night I wandered into Liberty Square a little dazed from Thanksgiving and a spate of enjoyable climate change days. Holiday lights and yellow leaves moved in the gentle, spring-like breezes while cops and Zuccotti sentries made phone calls and told jokes amongst themselves. All is much calmer since the eviction. In some ways it [...]
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