That Day and How to Hold On to Others: Living Forward From 9/11
“A kindergarten boy who saw people falling in flames told his teacher that the birds were on fire. She ran with him on her shoulders out...
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Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Aug 19, 2021
- 4 min
Can Hurt Help Us See Each Other?
”Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand." — Patti Smith, singer-songwriter My mother was one of...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Aug 2, 2021
- 5 min
Can you heal grief by being a perfect stranger?
"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Feb 2, 2017
- 1 min
Singing to Stones
"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened." — Anatole France, French poet I haven’t told this before. The...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Nov 19, 2014
- 3 min
What I Know About Ebola—Part IV
"I have two hands: one for me, one for other people." — Millie Bobby Brown, actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador My heart is heavy. At...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Sep 30, 2014
- 1 min
Well, One Life . . .
"It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me." — Cheryl Hayashi, spider biologist Most days I fail to save anyone....
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Sep 10, 2014
- 2 min
Let Them Be Safe
"The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us." — Anthony Fauci, MD,...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Sep 8, 2014
- 4 min
Arriving in Liberia
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.” — Mahatma Gandhi A year ago today,...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Jul 31, 2014
- 5 min
What I Know About Ebola — Part I
"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together." — Desmond Tutu, human rights activist & Nobel Peace Prize winner...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Jan 12, 2014
- 1 min
The Sound of Light
"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart." — Pablo Casals, Spanish-Puerto Rican cellist, composer &...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Jan 1, 2014
- 4 min
New Year's Day, Alone on Big Lagoon
“everything here / seems to need us” — Rainer Maria Rilke Paddling in fog this morning, I think, is this what Pablo entered or what he...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Feb 12, 2013
- 19 min
Splintered Hearts: The Women of Rural Ecuador—Visit Field Notes
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.” — Sydney Smith, writer & cleric, 1771-1845 Driving,...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Dec 19, 2012
- 1 min
Waiting for the New Era
“The end is where we start from.” — T. S. Eliot If I Could See the End Coming I wouldn’t expect a sudden white light or a familiar...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Nov 22, 2012
- 1 min
Another Thanksgiving Day…Thank You
“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Jun 16, 2012
- 1 min
After Walking Clam Beach
“I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- May 27, 2012
- 4 min
Another Memorial Day Weekend
“Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle Everything I do is stitched with its color." — W. S. Merwin Sundog The...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Jan 22, 2012
- 1 min
A Story About Poems
“If I speak for the dead . . . I must write the same poem over and over . . . .” — Illya Kaminsky, poet A Possibly True Story Once there...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Jan 4, 2012
- 1 min
2012: Humming Along
“Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you. And all you can do is go where they can find you.” — Winnie...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Nov 23, 2011
- 5 min
A Thanksgiving Story
“We are a way for the cosmos to know itself . . . we are star stuff harvesting star light . . . Our loyalties are to the species and to...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Oct 5, 2011
- 1 min
Awakening & Surrender
“We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning we awaken to the light . . . each night we surrender to the...