Karen Derris (@karenderris) 's Twitter Profile
Karen Derris

@karenderris

Mom of two teenagers, scholar of Buddhist narratives, professor of ReligiousStudies, living with #grade4brain cancer.

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Karen Derris Namo Amitabha Buddha. In sickness, we realize our impermanence and that our body is just old clothes and soon it will fade away. May our realization strengthen our faith in Amitabha and vow for rebirth into His Land. 🙏 Namu Amida Butsu

Ed Krassenstein (@edkrassen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is so incredibly sad. Cindy Cho, Kyu Cho, and James Cho all were shot and killed in the Allen, Texas mass shooting. 6-year old William Cho is the only surviving family member. He was also shot by Mauricio Garcia on May 6th and is recovering in the ICU. He lost his entire

This is so incredibly sad. 

Cindy Cho, Kyu Cho, and James Cho all were shot and killed in the Allen, Texas mass shooting. 6-year old William Cho is the only surviving family member. He was also shot by Mauricio Garcia on May 6th and is recovering in the ICU.

He lost his entire
Andrea גילי Harris (@deityshe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It’s hard when you can’t find your voice. Maybe you don’t feel worthy, or don’t want to bother someone else. You matter so much and you are not a burden. 💜

Joan Halifax (@jhalifax) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"We are not going to leave the world to follow a spiritual path. We have to make this world our spiritual path." ~ Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

"We are not going to leave the world to follow a spiritual path.
We have to make this world our spiritual path."
~ Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Museum With No Frontiers (@mwnf_org) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This tombstone, in Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and Latin, commemorates the death of Anna, mother of Grisanto, priest to the Norman King Ruggero (Roger). Each of the dates in the four versions corresponds to the Latin year 1148. | bit.ly/3DGEY00

This tombstone, in Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and Latin, commemorates the death of Anna, mother of Grisanto, priest to the Norman King Ruggero (Roger). Each of the dates in the four versions corresponds to the Latin year 1148. |   bit.ly/3DGEY00
Nicholas Witkowski (@npwitkowski) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sept 1 deadline: Scholars in South and Southeast Asia: Call for Applications: 2023-2024 Cultivating the Humanities and Social Sciences Research Grants asianstudies.org/call-for-appli… via @aasasianstudies

Occupy Democrats (@occupydemocrats) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: An unhinged conservative husband and wife interrupt an elementary school track-and-field meet, accuse a 9-year old girl with short hair of being a boy, and demand that the young girl produce her birth certificate in the middle of the race or be disqualified. But it

BREAKING: An unhinged conservative husband and wife interrupt an elementary school track-and-field meet, accuse a 9-year old girl with short hair of being a boy, and demand that the young girl produce her birth certificate in the middle of the race or be disqualified. 

But it
Karen Derris (@karenderris) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In the last three weeks our family was together at Ben’s college graduation in Connecticut and at home in california for Rebekah’s high school graduation. Being with my children at their graduations has been my goal and my promise y to them for the last seven years. Grateful!

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I am very fortunate my MRI taken earlier this week shows stability and no areas concern. I am grateful to be a #gbst outlier. I wish everyone’s cancer was as indolent as my mine is! This is what my oncologist calls it—lazy cancer! I’m lucky but this cancer makes every day hard!