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Beginner's Heart
Beginner’s Heart and the Army ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
So what is beginner’s heart? I actually Googled the term. Not many results apply. I came up with it like I do poem titles ~ it seemed like a good idea, and like it would lead me somewhere. It’s how (and often why) I write: where will the writing take me? What will I learn?…
blogging, hubris & tea ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
It’s an act of extreme hubris to begin a blog — it says that what we think and feel and do in our unexceptional life is worth noting. And of course it is, to those who love us. But I’ve felt for some time that there isn’t enough of that — the attention to the…
The Dalai Lama, bin Laden and forgiveness ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
Lately I’ve been losing sleep (really) over the rhetoric on the news about bin Laden’s death. People are rejoicing, and somehow, that seems wrong to me. Although I understand it when it’s New Yorkers — after all, their city was devastated by 9/11 and bin Laden’s machinations. Many NYers still struggle w/ the aftereffects of…
Welcome, Britton Gildersleeve
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Poet and philosopher D. Britton Gildersleeve, Ph.D., is a professor at Oklahoma State University, a published author and a former reporter at the Tulsa World newspaper. Raised in far corners of the world since her father was in the U.S. foreign service, she brings to Beliefnet a truly unique perspective on the world, which she describes as Buddhist/Unitarian.…
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