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My Favorite Things I Wrote In 2019
I started out the year with two pieces taking a look at political news from what I hope was a Buddhist point of view: The Red Hat Rorshach Test (Jan 2019) and When Swearing is Skillful (Jan 2019).
Also in January, I wrote a piece called Why I No Longer Donate To The Jewish National Fund (January 2019) for the Canadian independent media publication Ricochet. Some of my friends may be unhappy with the piece, in which case they should probably read The Talmud on the Responsibility to Protest (Jan 2019).
In April I wrote a state of the union piece on the dire situation of the Rohingya called “Like Fish In A Pool with Little Water”: Who Will Help the Rohingya? (April 2019). A partial answer to the question posed by the title which I wrote months later can be found here: A White Rose for Myanmar (Dec 2019).
Also in April I wrote Wilderness Birthed The Mind (April 2019), in which I attempt an analysis of the effect of ecological disintegration on the human mind by drawing on thoughts from Buddhist thinkers. On the other side of the coin, I wrote about a bold Buddhist eco-monastic project in British Columbia: How a Forest Monastery Took Root in British Columbia (July, 2019).
In May I wrote a piece inspired by Kurt Vonnegut about the crazy double lives we find ourselves living: Mother Night: We Are What We Pretend To…
