By Rebecca Kaplan, Oakland City Councilmember At-Large– The Oakland City Council will hear options for a library funding Measure. One of the options is from the Mayor/Administration, which will have…
By John Lewis– Perhaps the most famous Zen koan (a seemingly nonsensical or paradoxical question that Zen students are instructed to contemplate) is the koan: “What is the sound of…
By Dr. Bill Lipsky– The beautiful music filling the concert hall may have been familiar to some in the audience, but the sound of it was something unusual, unknown. In…
By Tom Moon, MFT– In the last issue I described “toxic shame” as a deep and sometimes debilitating sense of self-loathing that results from traumatic experiences of being repeatedly humiliated,…
By Dr. Tim Seelig– Is age really just a number? Take yourself back in time. It could be a month, a year, or decades ago. When was the very first…
Now at the de Young The site-specific panoramic diptych San Francisco Wall Painting (1970/2017) by artist Richard Jackson was recently added to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s holdings…
By Lyndsey Schlax– (Editor’s Note: Teacher Lyndsey Schlax of the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts launched the nation’s first on-site high school LGBT course in 2015. She…
Historic San Francisco Cathedral Lives Its Motto of ‘Grace for All’– By Lynn Aylward– Cathedrals are not exactly cutting-edge, and many people are giving organized religion a miss, especially in…
Compiled by Dennis McMillan– San Francisco School Funds and Lands May Be Used to Help Homeless Students Board of Education Commissioners Matt Haney and Shamann Walton and City College Board…
By Ann Rostow– Is There Hope for the Roberts Court? Buzzfeed’s legal whiz, Chris Geidner, has an interesting article about John Roberts, speculating that the Chief might be evolving our…
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