In late August, the Meher School, where I teach preschool, had staff Prep Week, much like other American institutions—a week...
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Writer/artist/musician still teaching preschool in SF bay area, Max Reif is the author of TOWARD AN INTERIOR SUN, a book of stories published by The Mindful Word; a book of poetry called Journey from Here to HERE; and a CD of songs, "The Wake-Up Man," dedicated to his Spiritual Guide, Meher Baba. He has been writing for The Mindful Word for around 5 years.
I learned about Dr. Carl Gustav Jung and his “analytical psychology” in a college seminar, in which we read Man...
Ghazal Written While Setting Out on a Trip: Begun on a Train and Finished in an Uber Departing on a...
A Rant on War as an Atavism I have it on good authoritythat the world is entering an Age of...
Writing as therapy in a time of televised brutality I’d written several poems when the Russia-Ukraine war began, out of...
My wife Barbara and I began playing Scrabble together shortly after we moved into our home, almost 20 years ago...
DEMIAN: The Story of a Youth Hermann Hesse [Martino Fine Books (reprint), 224 pages] I first read Hermann Hesse’s short...
The figure at the top of the house is Meher Baba, the personification of the “Higher Power” of the couple....
“What is a painting, anyway?” I asked myself this while contemplating how to write about a year of surprises at...
It’s somewhat consoling to me that on the Rotten Tomatoes website, Nine Perfect Strangers, the current Nicole Kidman and company...
Surprise Exhausted from several hours’ mental effortI feel as if I’m in a deep pit—Death Valley or somewhere,and will never...
Rebirth, 6 a.m., May 4 Up at 3 a.m., as on every Tuesdayfor volunteer work. All loaded up now,pulling out...
First Vaccine, February 25 The long slogis almost over, I thoughtsitting in the Kaiser suitethat’s newly a vaccination clinic beside...
One day last week, I was in the middle of reading an innocuous-looking picture book to our preschoolers at Rester...
BEING RAM DASS: The spiritual icon’s autobiography Ram Dass & Rameshwar Das [Sounds True, 488 pages] A word that comes...
BEING RAM DASS: The spiritual icon’s autobiography Ram Dass & Rameshwar Das [Sounds True, 488 pages] “When the flower blooms,...
Testament on the Last Day of 2020 I’m not a big fan of formalbeginnings or endings to anything.Renewal, I find,...
Winter Colors Winter’s cooler palette, bereft of tropic flames,speaks with a soft voice. Her muted beautyneed not shout.She awes with...
Such Joy To be able to eat food!To be able to walk upon the Earth!To see the leaves of autumn,hear...
I was walking in the city, troubled by the terrible state of our world. Passing an alleyway, I thought I...
As a preface, let me say that writing a news story like the one I just saw, about QAnon, the conspiracy theory...
Verily, I tell you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye...
A Cry From Down the Rabbit Hole, in the Time of the Pandemic I have gonedown the rabbit holechasing a...
TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man Mary L. Trump, Ph.D. Simon &...
