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Apr 26, 2008 12:05 AM
So I'm sitting on the floor in the hallway of a friend's house in San Francisco's Noe Valley, en route to the UK. The sun is shining, the sky is blue, and I'm happy to be back in my city. The only thing is there's a swarm of police officers outside and...
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Apr 19, 2008 04:13 AM
Today I toured a Waldorf school. It was lovely. The kids ran around smiling and saying hello to our small group. The first graders jumped rope and sang songs. The seventh graders did a languid movement developed by the school's founder Rudolf Steiner...
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Apr 15, 2008 02:13 AM
Yesterday I went for the student observation part of the Montessori school admissions process. The other parents were nice and laid back. One nursed her three year-old as we all sat at the little kids' table in the classroom. Tenzin flitted from the butterflies...
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Apr 11, 2008 05:15 PM
My son is named after the Dalai Lama-- a fact I feel compelled to announce up front. The thought of people thinking "Tenzin" is a pseudo-African name is a problem for me. I know many fabulous people have made-up, African-esque monikers, and that names...
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Apr 7, 2008 08:05 AM
As a mom, I knew getting sick was a big deal when I woke up one morning so dizzy I coudn't get out of bed. Tenzin was six months old. I lay there obsessed with what would happen if I couldn't take care of him. If I became incapacitated for a week, a month,...
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Apr 4, 2008 12:10 AM
The day Dr. King was assassinated, 2008. I've been thinking about the challenges of talking about race in our country. As someone who believes that all human beings are suffering in one way or another, how to honor the specific wound caused by racism?...
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