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Apr 27, 2017
5 min

The Ring of Compassion

What did the world sound like when it came into being, I once asked a class of first graders? Many raised their eyes to the sky as if try...

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Béa Gonzalez

Apr 13, 2017
4 min

Alchemy and the Three Layered Cake

For many years I was haunted by the notion of the unlived life left behind in my native Spain. It is the curse of the immigrant—to be for...

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Béa Gonzalez

Apr 7, 2017
3 min

Rumpling the Sheets

After six weeks of hibernation, it takes some serious words artfully arranged to bring me into life again. As always, only poetry will d...

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Bea Gonzalez

Mar 29, 2017
3 min

James Hollis

Over ten years ago, when I formed my first Sophia Discussion Group, it did not take me long to decide what book we should tackle first. T...

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Béa Gonzalez

Mar 22, 2017
4 min

The Space Between the Words

Once an elementary school teacher by the name of Deirdre Blomfield-Brown, today Pema Chodron is better known as one of the most insightfu...

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