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Carl Jung’s Red Book — A Dialogue

OnSunday November 8, 2009, Alice Walker was invited to appear at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, as a participant in a series of dialogues exploring the many meanings to be found in Carl Jung’s recently published Red Book . Her dialogue partner wasHarry Fogarty, PhD, a Jungian analyst in New York more »

Carl Jung's Red Book — A Dialogue

On Sunday November 8, 2009, Alice Walker was invited to appear at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, as a participant in a series of dialogues exploring the many meanings to be found in Carl Jung's recently published Red Book .  Her dialogue partner was Harry Fogarty, PhD, a Jungian analyst in New York [...]

Reading “Their Eyes Were Watching God”

Reading “Their Eyes Were Watching God“ After 75 years, Zora Neale Hurston’s novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” still resonates in the hearts and minds of contemporary audiences, but it had particular significance for black women writers and artists who were working at the time of its rediscovery. The Greene Space convened three luminaries who more »

Going Out to the Garden

                    Going out to the garden ©2012 by Alice Walker Going out to the garden this morning to plant seeds for my winter greens -the strong, fiery mustard & the milder broadleaf turnip- I saw a gecko who like the rest of us has been reeling [...]

Bursting into Love

  While I was reading this I found myself swallowing tears, trying to hold  in an impulse to burst into ….total Love.  I failed.   It is the oddest, most stirring sensation to think of Mumia with his arms unchained and free enough to hug his wife, and later these two visitors.  The whole day that [...]

When I Join You

                            When I Join You ©by Alice Walker 2012   When I join you in the effort for peace I give myself over. There and not there. Marching with you alongside the many who have died it is as if we are [...]

After Many Years and Much Silliness

                  After Many Years and Much Silliness Copyright©2012 by Alice Walker After many years and much silliness on both our parts I invite you back to this sacred place we used to come to rest, to sleep, to dream; to heal our brokenness.   I know you've [...]

Democratic Womanism

                  Wangari Maathai: who remembered the beautiful bountifulness of her land before the colonial invaders laid waste to it and resolved to bring it back to health by planting trees.  Rest in Well Done; beloved sister of our clan.   "Traditionally capable, as in:  'Mama, I'm walking to [...]

Another Way to Peace

It is compelling to watch the few still free of it. Who were never caged within the false bright light of "the set" nor ever pinned to the couch by tv.   Interviewed by a mannequin they do not seem to notice the silent eye watching them; training them to sit just so or it [...]

Occupying Mumia's Cell

                    Occupying Mumia's Cell Copyright©2011 by Alice Walker   I Sing of Mumia brilliant and strong and of the captivity that few black men escape if they are as free as he has become.   What a teacher he is for all of us.   Nearly [...]