- Seasonings
I used to host retreats on what is popularly known as "Celtic Spirituality." I was ...
- writing for resistance
I have been wrong about almost everything having to do with politics, communal beliefs, and ...
- Memory, story
It is a disjointed memory, attached to impressions. I was fourteen, traveling in France with my family. One day we planned to visit an eighteenth-century country house, I don't know why. For the architecture, probably. I remember nothing of the tour apart from one detail: sitting on a small table in the entryway was a painted china bowl filled with dried hydrangeas. ...
- writing for resistance
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- citizens
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Two high school classmates take very different paths to negotiate the war that marked their coming of age. Decades later they reconnect, learn to listen to one another’s story. They travel in space and time to the Vietnam of their memories and seek to reconcile both with the reality of today.
SEEKING QUAN AM
A DUAL MEMOIR OF WAR AND VIETNAM
by Susan R. Dixon and Mark M. Smith