©2020 john ater The ancient Japanese art of kintsugi* employees a technique of mending broken pottery with a special tree sap mixed with powdered gold. As the artisan fits the broken pieces together and cements them with the golden sap, what was a shattered vase begins to take on its…

You are my friends because I like you. You are interesting, you are intelligent and you are blinded by your rigid beliefs. If you trust me (and many of you won’t after this), there once was a man who was president. He was and is still a flim flam man. …

© john ater / february 2021 I debated publishing this because it is so personal and lines out so many of my beliefs about power and energy and all the “woo woo” stuff I have such a hard time accepting. But I do accept and I do believe. …

Sitting alone looking out across the Golden Gate, the boy caught my attention. I sensed a sadness and loneliness coming from him. Without thinking, I walked down and asked if I might sit with him. He said yes. His young face reflected a soul sadness, a sadness I’ve witnessed too…

At 8 p.m. tonight, as happens every night in our neighborhood since the beginning of this shit show, people started banging on pots, blowing horns, yelling, whistling, clapping, for the front line workers, the ambulance drivers, the nurses, the doctors, the hospital personnel who are fighting this pandemic in spite…

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Consider writing a list of what you learned today and the teachers you encountered. Who pissed you off? How did you handle that? Who was rude to you? How did you handle that? Who was kind to you? What was your response to that? Who were all your teachers today…