• Politics/Culture

    The Struggle for Decency and
    Equanimity in an Indecent Time

    Most of the time I try my best to be that little Buddha you see above, tucked away unobtrusively amidst the foliage of my everyday life, venturing out on occasion to sail along on the seas as they present themselves to me, be they roiled, calm, utterly crazed or just churning along at a steady forward clip. Other times—especially in these times—I find myself in a perpetual Code Blue, frantic and aghast at the array of emergency situations that I know in my bones are far too numerous and potentially deadly for my everyday Buddha to possibly track—or even let…