>> Index to "TOHU BOHU"
1.
BELFAST DIARY: Hanging
with the Dalai Lama, Sorry Paramilitaries and Struggling
Peacemakers in the Bomb and Barbed-Wire Capital of Northern Ireland.
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2. ZEN
and the ART of YOUR MOTHER DYING: At
a parent's side in the final days of dementia. Not a skill that
can
be taught, but you have to do somethiing.
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3. EIGHT
DAYS AFTER 9-11: Trying to focus
on retreat at a Buddhist monastery
in the West Virginia woods. "Bomb Afghanistan!" says the
head monk. And Osama bin Laden, enlightened? Someday, he says.
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4.
PARADIGM SHIFTING: Lawrence
Ferlinghetti's life in the trenches of poetry, through several Ages
of Anxiety. Continually awaiting a rebirth of wonder.
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5.
LAND OF MY FATHERS: A
trip back in time to the still fertile Italian hillside where my
father was born and lived -- and grandfather, and great-grandfather.
And great-great grandfather.
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TUNED. MORE TOHU BOHU Chapters to come...