by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Nov 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
friend of mine who was a member of a Zen sangha once told me that he and his wife were the only ones not to pass the test of the koan, which is a riddle to get students to think out of the box and prompt enlightenment. And while he didn’t tell me what the koan was, I...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Nov 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
man who had meditated twice a day for forty years described his practice this way, “My early morning practice sometimes gets delayed until 6 pm.” I had a good laugh, thinking of all the things that get delayed like that. And one thing we put off is...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Nov 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
friend of mine sent me an article from the NY Times by Andrew Russeth, (Sept 17, 2020), “Art About Waiting and What It Takes to Endure.” Naturally, this article will turn to Godot. But first it begins with an artist, Tehching Hsieh, who created for himself a...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Oct 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
ow that we’ve established that the kid is the boss in a foreign country, it’s time to see the things children get up to over there in France. First off, it was not easy. On the playground, French kids threw sand at my daughter, presumably because they asked her...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Oct 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
illiam Wordsworth writes. “the child is father of the man.” While he means this in a philosophical way, any ex-pat who isn’t really in the know in the new country will discover that the child parents the adult. Nowhere is this more true than trying to...
by Jeanne Kore Salvato | Oct 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
oulez-vous coucher avec moi? Non! I mean, veux-tu dîner chez moi? Do you want to come over for dinner? To dine with French people is an experience like no other. Why is that? you say. Food is food, right? People are people, right? Non and...