They asked him to illustrate “Desiderata” with pictures. Like other fortysomethings, Tauss remembered from his teen years the poem that suggested we “go placidly amid the noise and the haste.” “They ...

Yasiin Bey, the artist formerly known as Mos Def, released a somber and moving speech through Stop Being Famous about the state of current events. “We are at a critical time,” he explains. “We are at ...

AS FAR AS POSSIBLE WITHOUT SURRENDER BE ON GOOD TERMS WITH ALL PERSONS. This reflects the fine dance of so many things: boundaries, compassion, codependency, over-reaction, forbearance. My former ...

I was ordained on April 1, 1970. That’s right! I was ordained on April Fools Day. Perhaps you can imagine the jokes and the teasing that simple fact has prompted. Clare and I were members of Crescent ...

In the course of writing last week’s piece, I had to go to Google to look up the exact words of the "Desiderata" – everyone’s favorite bit of ’60s wisdom (aside from the now-hoary "What is essential ...