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      • Pacific Worlds Bibliography
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September 6, 2006

how far is east from west?
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how far is east from west?

This powerful post about peace and forgiveness from God Girl is a must-read (really, all of her posts are worth a gander, but do take a few minutes to contemplate this one)…

John initially showed me this post because the photo of double-amputee Gill Hicks caught his eye. That she has forgiven the London bombers whose acts resulted in her loss is a miracle.

Today I showed my students a video about the 1992 LA Uprising/Rodney King Riots. The movie, Sa-I-Gu, explores the tensions in central L.A. between African-Americans and the Korean shopkeepers whose businesses were looted and burned to the ground. Though there are interviewees in this documentary that speak kindly about their neighbors, I left class today with an overwhelming weariness. Feeling as if the world is way too complex. With a loss of hope that was exacerbated by a conversation with a student in the Navy following the film.

But I think I will prepare for Rosh Hashanah this year as God Girl has suggested, by finding hope through forgiveness. She quotes Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald as saying:

“We have this concept that God is in the fields….He’s not in his temple, he’s not in his abodes . . . he’s not transcendent. He’s very, very imminent. He comes out to the fields, to the people in the fields, begging them, ‘OK, come to me and just ask for forgiveness.’

September 6, 2006
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biography: Oliver Sacks
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biography: Oliver Sacks


I’m writing a brief biographical article about Oliver Sacks for a forthcoming academic encyclopedia. It’s a thrill to be delving deep into the life and writings of one of my favorite authors. A few years ago Mike Davis sent one of my essays to his editor, describing my writing style as akin to Oliver Sacks’. I walked on clouds for a few weeks after that.

Below is a list of Sacks’ major publications. You probably know him best as Robin Williams’ character from the movie “Awakenings” (based on his novel with the same title). I suggest that you explore a few of his books. A Leg to Stand On is my personal favorite. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is probaby his most popular book. It’s good reading, too!

Sacks, Oliver. An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales. New York: Vintage, 1996.
—. Awakenings. New York: Summit Books, 1987.
—. A Leg to Stand On. New York: HarperPerennial, 1990.
—. Migraine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
—. Oaxaca Journal. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2002.
—. Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf. New York: Harper Perennial, 1990.
—. The Island of the Colorblind; and, Cycad Island. New York: Vintage Books, 1998.
—. The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat: And Other Clinical Tales. New York: Touchstone, 1998.
—. Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.

September 6, 2006
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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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