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bDharma

The Practitioners’ Quandary

I feel super proud of this July 2022 issue. Not a given. We have several practiced writers this time — Lainie Logan, Katharine Kaufman, Heather Campbell Grimes, and the poets Tom Pathe, Wendell Beavers (though he denies it), and Frank Ryan. And our regular department editors, Maddy Radish, Camillya Madigan and our new editor Posthumous Molly.

Please enjoy.  

Eileen Malloy

8/2/2022

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This Winter 2022 issue finds me reflecting on what this is, what we would call it, where it’s going, what it means.  Like I was in an ambiguous relationship with it or something.

This magazine, I call it, was first conceived as a dharma Good Housekeeping or Ladies Home Journal.  Full of helpful information immediately relevant to everyday life, like love advice and manners, with a dose of art and some straight up dharma articles sewn together with it.

It was founded on the premise that my friends and I are brilliant, funny, at least somewhat realized, and full of ideas and wisdom to share with the world.  What I didn’t count on was that most of them are also inordinately shy about writing.  None of them think of themselves as writers, with a few, very notable exceptions.

So this issue includes a reflection on the merits of writing, to clarify your mind and release yourself from knotty problems, beneath a plea for submissions.

Thanks for reading, dear readers, and do drop a line or 50,000.

Eileen Malloy

2/14/2022

 

 

This fall 2021 issue is full of spiritual and cultural pith, wisdom, and celebration.  May you be drunk with spiritual blessings.