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Mothers And Sons

Picking out a baby outfit, playing an innocent game, becoming a caregiver

March 2001

How I yearn to be a better man, though I know that’s just a different kind of greed.

Sunbeams

We have so many words for states of mind, and so few for the states of the body.

Jeanne Moreau

Getting Free

Escaping The Prisons Of Our Own Making — An Interview With Bo Lozoff

Those three years of retreat were the hardest of my life. I’d been doing prison work for almost twenty years, but that one incident in Louisiana popped my balloon, and everything deflated. I had no energy. Had I been in a mainstream career, people would have pushed me to take Prozac. But I recognized that a very important spiritual development was occurring, and I needed to follow it to its conclusion.

Rose Stein Speaking Within The Poetry Circle At The Jewish Home For The Aged In The Bronx

Happiness

Ground zero, fuzzy kittens, the most beautiful roundhouse right punch

Making A Difference

Boxing lessons, frozen puddles, individualized sandwiches

The Artist’s Mother

I’ve longed for someone since I can remember, and not a night goes by when I don’t reach for her. It’s been hell having something between my legs, but as my mother would say, we must make the best of what we have and not complain of what we don’t.

Cats And Dogs

Pills blessed by the Dalai Lama, Charlotte’s secret, bodies at the bottom of the freezer

Fathers And Sons

Playing catch, running fences, digging your grave