Dave’s Desk@Ditch: Without A Community
I wholeheartedly agree with this passage from Zen Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh’s work titled, “No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering.”
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Dave’s Desk@Ditch: Circles of Trust
“No matter how much we may feel the need for a circle of trust, few of us can imagine taking
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Dave’s Desk@Ditch: Tribalism & Surviving Our Own Humanity
As many of us have witnessed these past several years, a polarization of sorts has permeated not only our country,
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Dave’s Desk@ Ditch: A Much-Welcomed Sight
by Dave Davis Like many of my fellow educators here on the East End, and probably everywhere else for that
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Dave’s Desk@Ditch: No Longer Sweating the Small Stuff
Like many folks that I’ve been speaking with lately, this past year-and-a-half has certainly presented itself with ample opportunities to
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Dave’s Desk@Ditch: Grateful for Every Moment
With my preschool teaching duties not scheduled to re-start until the fall, I have finally found the time to scroll
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Dave’s Desk@Ditch: Now Is The Time
I find it rather interesting that, no longer had I begun to contemplate how many of us would be handling
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Dave’s Desk@Ditch: What Used To Be
Now that some of the restrictions regarding COVID-19 protocol have begun to be lifted, I’m quite interested in seeing how
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Dave’s Desk@Ditch: Groundlessness as a Foundation
There’s a passage from Pema Chodron, the renowned Buddhist nun, that I recently came across in Tricycle, and I wanted
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Dave’s Desk@Ditch: What’s Wrong With This Picture?
Pictured Above: Beeple’s “Everydays – The First 5000 Days,” a piece of crypto-art which sold for a record $69 million
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Dave’s Desk@Ditch: Bridging the Great Divide
I’m probably not alone in thinking that one of the more disturbing aspects of this most recent presidential election wasn’t
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