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
- Mar 18, 2012
- 6 min
The Road to Carate
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-British Philosopher It...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Dec 31, 2010
- 4 min
Happy New Year
“Why did you stop praising?” “Because I never heard anything back.” “This longing you express is the return message” —Jelal’uddin Rumi,...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Dec 14, 2010
- 1 min
After Rain, Approaching Solistice
“I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief . . . for a time I rest in the grace of the...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Mar 14, 2010
- 2 min
The Gravity of Others
“Tide: Stresses exerted in a body by the gravitational action of another . . . . Every body in the universe raises tides, to some extent,...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Feb 26, 2010
- 3 min
Listening
“Sleep, sleep, I croon . . . Sleep I sing—I who am unmelodious and hear no music save rustic music when a dog barks, a bell tinkles, or...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Feb 14, 2010
- 1 min
Valentine’s Day
“Without love, we are birds with broken wings.” — Morrie Schwartz, 1916-1995, sociology professor Who Do You Sing For? Just before...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Feb 13, 2010
- 1 min
Persistence
“The art of love is largely the art of persistence.” — Albert Einstein After the Earthquake, the World Goes On The earth turns like a sac...
Kimberley Pittman-Schulz
- Jan 2, 2010
- 3 min
Frog Song
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song” — Maya Angelou Heavy rain yesterday. This morning, a...
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