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Love in the Wake of Violence: Notes from Oakland, October 28th

Love in the Wake of Violence: Notes from Oakland, October 28th

“It is not nonviolence if we merely love those that love us. It is nonviolence only when we love those that hate us.” — Gandhi

I have not been to OccupyOakland since Saturday. For almost two days, no one was there, as police blockaded the area after destroying the camp …

A Slice of Heaven

A Slice of Heaven

Being someone very deeply immersed in this world, my notions and images of heaven are also about the here and now, not about some other world or some mythical time. Heaven for me is about dissolution of what I see as culturally-imposed barriers between people, and between any of us …