by Admin | Feb 11, 2013 | creativity, E-model, Generation E, meditation, Uncategorized
Pundits I’ve read recently on common mistakes bloggers make, my guilt is like an egg on my face in some of my latest blogs. If I have bored you in the past, forgive me. The most egregious error; my complaints about the state of publishing and the new avenues of...
by Admin | Apr 28, 2012 | apartheid, creativity, fiction, historical fiction, human rights, Leela's Gift, literary agent, meditation, mind structure, reconciliation, Sharpeville massacre
Apologies to my loyal readers for my lack of blogging activity in past months. Something has to give. Several months ago I began working with an editor on my latest fiction manuscript “Love Affair in the Shadow of Apartheid.” I have worked with many...
by Admin | Mar 16, 2012 | Children, college, creativity, Generation E, high school, human rights, Leela's Gift, meditation, mind structure, reconciliation, teaching tales, young adults
Several times a year, with permission, I use this blog space to share student responses to what they are learning in my classroom. This is the response of a high school senior to an introduction to meditation practice. 1. The Universal Breath The diamond mind of...
by Admin | Oct 16, 2011 | creativity, meditation
The title words of today’s post are by Anglo-American poet T.S. Eliot in his famous Four Quartets. Last weekend on a glorious fall day I was in our nation’s capital. The area around the mall is indeed living proof of Eliot’s idea that “Time...
by Admin | Aug 14, 2011 | Children, college, creativity, Generation E, high school, meditation, young adults
This week I find myself in the north-east kingdom of Vermont at a retreat center near St. Johnsbury. Over the almost thirty years since I came to this country with my American born husband and South African born children, I have stayed every several years somewhere in...