My wife Barbara and I were looking forward to the July 4 release, on the Disney Plus network, of Hamilton....
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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 read an article in the New York Times recently that gave me a picture of George Floyd’s life. Before...
Saturday Morning Walk in Civic Park (This is the text of the spoken poem on the video above) How not...
image 1: Wikimedia Commons; image 2: National Public Radio; image 3: Gerald L. Ford School / Wikimedia Commons / Wikimedia...
We’re all living in the middle pages of one of those dystopian sci-fi novels that I used to avoid. No...
I pray for the peopleI see on TV,the ones havinga hard timeand the onestrying to help: for the news anchors,who...
We seem to be powerless in relation to a U.S. President, elected with 3 million votes fewer than his opponent,...
On a peaceful spring morning,waiting in linehere at Costcoto get in, without my seeingor even feeling a thing,the assassin may...
Pandemic (a villanelle) We cannot ascertain how grave things are,Or where they’ll lead, by looking out windows,As “bug” and economic...
I ventured out this morning to our local Safeway supermarket, adjacent to Rossmoor, the semi-country-clubbish senior development where we and...
Until further notice, the life we were living is on hold.Until further notice, we will not gather in the marketplaceexcept...
My fellow citizens of the whole world,I invite you to write your own poem beginning with that title line! America,...
For the past three years, each time I took my annual blood test at Kaiser, my glucose level was a...
The last time I spoke to Ram Dass, during the active period of our work together, was in July or August 1976....
During a recent conversation, one of my good friends noted in a kind of parenthetical way, “You pay a lot...
I feel like writing something about my country’s paroxysms of conflict, although I’m not sure I have anything worthwhile to...
Two and a half days left to go in La Plata! The only thing on my schedule was Carlos’ jazz...
La Plata: A new city to discover The streets looked a bit rough, I observed as the bus pulled into...
Jorge Luis Borges has long been one of my favorite authors. His metaphysical short stories thrilled me in college. I...
I found Buenos Aires like nothing so much as New York City. OK, the buildings aren’t as tall. However, the...
Although one purpose of my Latin America journey was to visit friends, I didn’t know anyone in Montevideo, the capital...
Sunday morning in Mexico City (Note: To read the first two articles in this series, go here) I went out to...
Mexico City appeared, suddenly and dramatically, as my plane from San Francisco descended beneath the cloud cover. It was vast,...
A different kind of pilgrimage I decided several years ago that I would devote part of each summer to seeing...
