These stories were written in the last fifteen years and in general they are about the theme of intuitions and internal realities that are not always visible, but are undoubtedly true. Truths that push us in a profound and human
Read moreLuz Azul – Blue Light
This book is their most recent collaboration, Fernando as a poet, Rafael as a draftsman, with a production that has been giving informally for the last 21 years or so. Each one in their own field, and in this book
Read morePilgrimage to Punta de Vacas, May 2019
This May I flew to Santiago, Chile to go with friends up to Punta de Vacas Park of Study and Reflection, almost 10,000 feet up in the Andes between Argentina and Chile. Celebrations were taking place all over the world
Read moreA singing story
A couple of years ago, I began working on writing my autobiography. Someone asked me why – after all, there are a million autobiographies out there, why add one more? So I had to explain myself. I said it didn’t
Read moreAttack of the Benevolent Harpies and Fahrenheit 11/9
A few days ago a couple of old friends of mine tracked me down and pinned me to the wall. “Wake up!” they yelled, “we are mothers, and we have forgotten these children, the children in cages at the border,
Read moreLosing Sadness and Finding Peace
I went on a walk to get away from some problems that were generating too much mental babble. Craving silence, I tried thinking of nothing, just feeling the stillness – but mental silence, though lovely, is hard to sustain. Then
Read moreI lose things
I lose things. Usually my phone, which I have already lost this morning, before doing anything but getting up, doing the morning toilet ritual, taking my vitamins, feeding the cat, sweeping the kitchen floor, doing my morning meditation, letting the
Read moreAn Antidote to Darkness
One evening not long ago, when I was sunk in suffering over something beyond my control, I remembered James Baraz’s 91-year-old mother Selma. In the you tube video “Confessions of a Jewish Mother,” she tells how her Buddhist son ruined
Read moreIn Everything That Exists, There Is a Plan: Part I – The Master Game
Fernando Aranguiz published his amazing novel Aniversario in the original Spanish in 2010. Beginning with the story of the author’s early experiences in the humanist movement in Chile in the 1970s, the novel goes on to develop an intricate
Read moreThe Overrated Agony of Insomnia
I was at the end of my rope. For five nights I had not slept more than a two or three hours. Now I was facing another day of brain-fogged exhaustion, battling the unthinkable possibility: What if I never sleep
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