Maia Duerr

May 5, 2024 | loublaser.substack.com | Lou Blaser |Maia Duerr

Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. My dear reader friend, In the early 90s, Meryl Streep and Albert Brooks made a movie called Defending Your Life. It wasn’t a commercial hit, I don’t think, and it hardly gets mentioned in Streep’s storied filmography. But this movie’s fantastical premise has lodged itself in my brain and has been — I’m a little embarrassed to admit — a guiding principle for many of my decisions in life.

Aug 21, 2023 | buddhistdoor.net | Maia Duerr

I am honored to join the team of BDG writers and look forward to connecting with you each month. Through this column, my intention is to reflect on how the Dharma gives us a path to understand and respond to collective challenges, such as the climate emergency, social breakdown, and racial and economic injustice. We are living through falling-apart times and this can be terrifying and painful when we don’t have a spiritual or moral compass to guide us.