Remembering Rwanda
a small African country
inconceivable actions
enormity of horror
so easily death can come
and so easily it goes
priceless people worth nothing
Remembering Rwanda
The Gettysburg Address,
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
hundred sixty years ago
words spoken, yet then broken
at Civil War battlefields
Abraham Lincoln in charge
leading one House, divided
Lincoln killed, we try to heal
Receiving My Kabbalah
searching through our worlds
while looking inward too
balancing many aspects
Compassion, Wisdom, Presence
Unity, Separation
renewing the traditions
receiving my kabbalah
Dan Brook
Dan Brook is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at San Jose State University, from where he organizes the Hands on Thailand program. His most recent books are Harboring Happiness: 101 Ways To Be Happy, Sweet Nothings, about the nature of haiku and the concept of nothing, and Eating the Earth: The Truth About What We Eat.