Remembering the Boundless Heart of Robert A.F. Thurman

“Ah! There is Rima, the bodhisattva!” Bob called out with unmistakable excitement as he spotted me standing among hundreds of people. We had gathered at Tibet House in New York to hear his lecture, where I was in the audience with my husband. “Bodhisattva, huh?” my...

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When Your Imagination Turns Every Problem into a Crisis

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” ~Mark Twain It started with a clogged kitchen drain. Or maybe the drain was where everything else I’d been carrying finally surfaced. Regardless, the water wasn’t moving. It was so bad that some of...

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Rojandree’s Gratitude Story: Celebrating the Small Wins

Trigger Warning: This story mentions serious illness, stroke, and depression. Please read with care. Rojandree's life took a sudden turn when she was diagnosed with neuropsychiatric lupus in August 2025, followed by a stroke in September. At that time, she could not...

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Raising a Black Child in America When Racism Can Be Fatal

This essay was written five days before the Madison, WI police killing of Corey Ruiz and a week before the Austin, TX police killing of unarmed Anthoneil Williams II. I am a Black mother to a Black child in the U.S. The deaths of teenagers Nolan Xavier Wells and...

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