Life: All’s Well That Ends Well

But is it ever really over???

In the end, my paper, and the panel on Comparative Approaches to Meditation as a whole, was a great success. A publishing rep offered me a free book, the latest one out by Anthony De Mello, about the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius. A journal editor approached us about potentially devoting an issue of his journal to our panel. And we had a very nice audience. What more could I ask for?

A job!? Ha. Well. The advice from my friend Brian, who will likely end up with a job this year, was to really have your ducks in a row well in advance, and he did. And I didn’t. And that’s okay. I was mostly focused on the presentation and making sure that went well. Next year, for sure, I’ll get the job. In the meantime there are many options: hopefully doing some more work/study/travel stuff with Ven. Yifa (here’s a nice article about one of her books) in the summer, looking into teaching for the Antioch study abroad program, publishing, getting my Pali in great shape, and, most importantly, finishing a great thesis.

But for now… One more day in the big apple.

Students enjoy lunch at a Jewish school in Washington Heights.