it's really wonderful
I'll to be able to introduce
professor Angela Harris
keynote speaker for today
professor Harris has been at
UC Davis since 2011 but she started
her career
at Berkeley and she even spend a brief
period around the corner
in Buffalo but over the course of her
career as many have you already know
she's made enormous
contributions to critical legal theory
through critical race theory critical
race feminism
class base working a lot of work in
environmental areas
since her very early career she's also
distinguished herself through
a commitment to introducing students to
these critical methods on ethical
questions
analyzing laws role in challenging
but also supporting complex systems
up subordination she's got a course that
she teaches that's called
mindfulness in professional identity
becoming a lawyer while keeping your
values intact
which I'm I really need to take if its
but not already much too late
so in short Angela really challenges the
and inspires us through her work
and through her character and engagement with
communities inside and outside that is
across the boundary between academic
communities and the rest of the world
and I think that's one of the most
exciting thing
about her work I'm really looking
forward to hearing her talk today
thank you. (Angela) so I was talking to Fasial
a few weeks ago to see what he wanted me
to talk about
and he asked me to reflect on
how I moved from being a critical race
scholar to
writing and thinking about mindfulness
and as I thought about that it feels as
if I haven't actually moved at all
so in this talk I want to explain why
it feels that way I feel that way so
what's drawn me into both critical race
theory and mindfulness and that word is
kinda troubling to me because it's
become so commercialized
but may be of a contemplative
practice
as another here goes
okay I think I got it what's drawn me
into both critical race theory in
mindfulness a contemplative practice
is the factor suffering and so I want to
start
by telling a story about suffering and I
warn you that it's a graphic story it's
heavy story
but I think it's important for us to be
in it and be with it
for a moment together so
in the early morning hours of june 7th
1998
James M byrd a resident at the small
town of Jasper Texas
left a bridal shower at a friends house
began the long walk to his home
on the other side of town. Accustomed to
catching ride to passing drivers the
49-year-old african-american man
apparently didn't hesisate when a
pickup truck
stopped on a man that he knew, a white
man from around town
Sean Barry then 24 years old
offered to take him home inside the
truck to other white man
Lawrence Brewer who is 31 at the time john king
who was 23. Instead of taking bird home
the three men took him to a remote
county
Road out of town beat him severely
urinated on him and chained and by his
ankles to the rear bumper
of their pickup truck. They then Road
down rural jasper county road dragging his body
behind them for several miles until his
body broke into pieces
according to one newspaper account
the autopsy report said mister Bird's head
right arm and upper right shoulder
ripped from his body
as he was dragged down county road on
the early morning
of June 7th. Much of his skin
was stripped and shredded. Most of his
ribs his back and his collar bone were
broken
along with bones in his arms legs and feet
mister byrd's torso and severed head
were discovered about a mile apart on a
rural road
in Jasper. The examination found that
mister byrd's
tongue was badly lacerated
and that the left side of his chin
and jaw
was ground down. The bones of his lower
back
his kneecaps and elbows were also
exposed
broken and ground down the report stated
two vertebrae and mister byrds back were
fractured
and the area around his lower back and
hips was badly abraded
the pathologist said the body was
extensively damaged on both sides
because quote it was turning over and
over as it was being dragged
this evidence was later introduced into
court to show that mister Byrd was still
alive and conscious
trying to protect his head for his limbs were found scattered
across a seldom-used Road the police
found 81 places that were littered with
Byrd's remains
Jasper County authorities said they
thought the head was severed
when it struck a roadside culvert. Byrd's
brain and skull were found intact
further suggesting that he had maintain
consciousness
while being dragged
so the first thing that I want to take
notice before I go on as the flinch
as I told you that story it's very
likely that you responded not only
intellectually not only emotionally but
also what we call viscerally
in the body and their ways to account
for this in
emerging in neuroscience. Recently
popular mirror science writers have
been telling us about the discovery of
mirror neurons
in monkeys which may provide a
biological basis for the experience
of empathy
and these are classic cells that fire
only in response
to actions that are intentional
and they fire it's been discovered not
only when an individual performs an
action
but also when the individual deserves
someone else make the same movement
but whether or not mirror neurons
really turn out to be the proof that
empathy is natural to humans
we already know that there's a way in
which we feel the suffering
of other sentian beings not only humans,
in our own bodies
we have to flinch our bodies have to flinch
so what were the legal responses to the
killing of James Byrd
well one legal response at the state
level was a criminal trial
all free men were charged with and
convicted of kidnapping and murder
in addition recognizing that Brewer and King
were well-known white supremacist who
developed the races interesting prison
the district attorney charged with them with hate
crimes making them eligible for the
death penalty
prosecutors argued that one motivation
for the crime was that King wanted to start
is own white supremacist group
and targeted Byrd as a way to shine
attention
on himself and gain members. During his trial
the prosecution introduced a jailhouse
letter written by Brewer
bragging about his role in the murder in
saying well I did it.
and no longer am I a virgin. It was a
rush and I'm still looking
my lips for more. In a jailhouse letter
to Brewer, King wrote of his pride in the
crime
and accepted the fact that he might die
for it. Regardless of the outcome of this
we have made history King says in the
letter
intercepted by jail officials. Death
before dishonor
zeg heil. All three were found
guilty
King and Brewer sentenced to death and
Barry claim that the other two were
entirely responsible for the killing
and was sentenced to life in prison with
no chance of parole until 2039
Brewer is injected
was executed by lethal injection on
September 21st 2011
the day before his execution Brewer
told a Houston news team
quote as far as any regrets no I have no
regrets
no I do it all over again to tell you the truth
his execution was the 11th of that year
in Texas. Barry is still in prison
serving time at the Ramsa unit of the
Texas Department of Criminal Justice
King is on death row at the Polanski unit
of the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice so that was one legal response
to the killing a second legal response
to mister Byrd's killing was the passage
of new hate crime
legislation at the state and federal
level after a failed attempt in 1999 the
Texas Legislature passed the James
Byrd jr hate crimes act in 2001
and the Byrd act amended the 1993
hate crime act
to allow penalty enhancement when the
fact finder is determined
that the defendants select  the victim
for property
of because the prejudice for specified
groups
moreover in contrast to the 1993 the
earlier hate crime
act, the Byrd act numerics several
specific groups within the statute that
are protected
well the old texas hate crime statute
merely enhanced punishment because that
defendants bias or prejudice
toward a group, the Byrd act enhances
punishment because of the defendant
bias or prejudice towards the victims
race, colour
disability religion national origin or
ancestry
age gender or sexual preference. So that
was one response, the passage by Texas
of a new hate crime statute
in addition in 2009 President Obama
signed the federal Matthew Shepard and
James Byrd jr Hate Crimes Prevention
Act
and this federal act alter existing hate
crime sentence enhancements protect
new group defined by gender disability
sexual orientation and gender identity
and expanded the application of hate crimes
enhancements
by no longer requiring that the victim be
engaged in a federally protected
activities such as voting
so
as Alice wrist office noted in the
anglo-american common law tradition to
call a crime an offense against the
person
is to identify the harm if the offense
has an injury
to human body a HLA heart describe
human physical vulnerability
as a truism that dictated the minimum
content of law itself
suggesting that it would not make sense
to have a legal system at all
unless the law saught first and foremost to protect our fragile bodies
law like ethics begins in the Flinch
and yet
the law is inevitably never a fully
adequate
response to suffering so in the talk I
want to describe two ways in which the
law fall's short
and where the technologies of critical
theory
and contemplative practice supplement
the laws approximation
justice so anglo-american law
first sometimes works in ways that are
complicit with violence
and they facilitate suffering and
critical theory can help us call that out
the law also attempt to supersede the
flinch
by replacing it with an abstract system
of rules meant to fix
and solidify justice making a portable
permanent legible rational and universal
but to move fully from justice to peace
we also need to surrender to the grief
that is the residue of
justice the remainder and contemplative
practice can help us go there
another set of tools to help us
recognize these limitations of law
alongside critical theory in
contemplative practices is Art
and I'm very much not an artist
and others who are here have spoken much
more eloquently about the capacities of Art
to respond to suffering then I could
so I'm not going to say anything more
about that, but while I talk about critical
theory in contemplative practice I
wanted to share some slides artistic
pieces
that do the work that I'm thinking of
and so also is well I can
relieve myself of the terany of the 
clicker
I hope and that these guys
change on their own so
law and critical theory. so as humans we
have
the visceral response to flinch to
perceive suffering
but at the same time as humans we also
have the capacity to avoid feeling the flinch
to avoid recognizing it and avoid acting
on it indeed as humans we have the
capacity to you suffering as a resource
as a tool power.  Stanley Collins book
states of denial
maps the many ways in which perpetrators
victims and bystanders
individuals institutions peoples and
nations
are able to avoid coming to terms with
atrocity
and cohen describes three different modes
of denial
there's literal denial which ranges
from
genuine unculpable ignorance to delivered a
version for the gays
from the truth too unbearable to
acknowledge to a twilight state of
self-deception
where some of the truth is hidden from
yourself to a cultural not noticing
because the reality is partly taken for
granted view the world
or as he says one of the variety of
calculated forms of lying
deception disinformation Cohen also
talks about interpretive denial
we recognize the facts but you put a
different spin on them
ranging from a genuine inability to
grasp
with the facts mean to others.To deeply
cynical renamings to avoid moral censure
our legal accountability and finally
Cohen describes what he calls simply implicatory denial
acknowledging what is happening claiming
it to be justified
justified by righteousness. suffering is
justified by transcended ideology
a righteous cause or sacred mission. Justify by necessity
we had to do it there is no alternative.
Justified by denial the victim
they started it they got what they deserved.
Justified by contextualization
and uniqueness if only you really
understood our history our politics the
nature of the conflict
then you just might not be so harsh or
justified by advantageous comparisons
our adversaries behave terribly and you
don't condemn them
your own moral record is flawed so you
have no right to judge
and Cohen noted notes
that what all of these defense
mechanisms psychological organizational
cultural and ideological have in common
is that they embody a paradox in order
to defend yourself
against taking note of suffering you
have to first take note of it
and Cohen defines denial this way
quote " a statement about the world at the
self
about your knowledge about the world or the self which is neither
literally true nor a lie,  intended to
deceive others
but allows for the strange possibility
of simultaneously knowing
and not knowing. The is its existence of
what is denied must be somehow known
and expressed and statements expressing
this denial must be somehow believed in
put another way we feel the flinch
and then we distance ourselves from it. We avoid the feeling
knowledge of it and one other things the
critical theory aspires to do is to make
visible as strip away
these mechanisms of denial and one of
the projects of critical legal theory
is been to call out the state and the
law
for its role in facilitating denial
consider for example the violence and
suffering created by the law
but made to disappear by turning into
criminal justice
Louique Quan writes of a  to visit
los angeles county jail  "what grabs you
immediately and before all else
upon penetrating into this humongous
human storehouse
is the deafening and disorienting noise
doors banging
bolts opening and closing, keys jangling
feet shuffling, shrill shouts
blunt orders
and tattered shreds of conversations that
rustle
ripple in a resounding a high-density sonic
mishmash
unlike any other. Next is the ubiquitous
filth
everywhere they can on the metal frame
of their beds
the locks on their bars,  the toilet that
sits smack in the middle of their
miserable
living space. The inmates hang plastic
bags filled with the day's trash
the passageways are strewn with debris
yogurt containers orange peel soil paper
torn pieces for cardboard
and trails have spilled juice that a
trustee a low-security inmates
in charge of upkeep will come sweep up when he
makes his rounds
not to mention the roaches and rats. 
Then aside from the promiscuity pushed
to the point of obscenity for which the
detainies
protect themselves as best they can by
draping their discoloured towels
between their bunk beds
to vail themselves when they use the john.
Create assemblance of intimacy
a protective self-made mini jail inside
the jail
comes the total absence of natural light
which reinforces
to the extent that it even possible the
feeling of enclosure
you would think that you're in a tomb a
subterranean groto
a safe from and buried alive far away
from society's eyes
ears and mind "  so Quans
articles about the invisibility of this
suffering
this violence and suffering is made invisible by prison administrative
rules that make contact with inmates
difficult
and restricts the information that can
move between jails and prisons and the
outside world
even more effectively in the United
States this violence and suffering is  made
invisible by the criminal laws
assumption
that everything that happens after the
conviction, everything that goes on
inside prison in jail walls is justice
retribution and incapacitation the
primary justification of criminal
punishment under current american
law rehabilitation is not the point
nothing to see here except justice being
done
as a second example of laws complicity
with denial in with suffering consider
the Supreme Court's relentless narrowing
of the boundaries that the Equal
Protection Clause
and the courts insistence that the
structural violence
of deep and persistent racial economic
inequality
has no constitutional remedy. One blogger wrote
about the Byrd murder "Jasper
County is part of rural
East Texas one of the poorest most
and most backward regions of the United States
US Census figures give the following
profile
the county's population of 31,148
is 80% white
18 % black,  2 percent other the
number of college graduates
1,649 is exceeded by the number of
people who dropped out of school
in the ninth grade earlier 2,816
barely half the adult population are
high school graduates
the unemployment rate is well above the
state and national average
most  of those who work are employed
in low wage jobs in retail sales
light manufacturing lumber and
construction the median household income
is $20,000
considerably below the US
average
while the poverty rate is 20% .One out
of every 10 households is on welfare
and one out of three have no wage or
salary income at all
in a largely rural area 10 percent of
households have no car
5 percent have no phone. These figures
suggest the social and economic context
in which the murder of James Byrd took
place
but the US Constitution does not grant
any economic rights
nor any special protection for those who
are victimized because they're poor
critical race theorists have gone
further to call out the way in which the
constitutional law of
race as interpreted by the Supreme Court
protects
racial subordination. Consider the
court's decision in Mcluskey vs Kemp
the case decided by the US Supreme Court
in 1987
the defendant was a black man has been
sentenced to death for armed robbery
his claim was supported by a statistical
regression
analysis performed by Professor David
Badis. Finding that in the state of
Georgia
where McCluskey was tried and sentenced
the imposition of capital punishment was
strongly influenced by the race
the defendant and also the race at the
victim the study took account of over
200 possible non-racial factors that
might affect the punishment
and it found the defendants charged with
killing white victims
in Georgia were 4.3 times
as likely to be sentenced to death
as defendants charged with killing
blacks. Moreover cases involving black
defendants and white victims were more
likely to result in a death sentence
then cases featuring any other racial
combination of defendant and victim
the court accepted this statistical
analysis is properly done
and its results is accurate. Nonetheless
the court rejected McCleskey's claim
that the state of Georgia had denied
him the Equal Protection of the laws
in a 5-4 decision the court held that
McCleskey had to lose
because he could not show that any
particular actor in his own case
such as the prosecutor or the jury had
consciously and intentionally
been prejudiced against him without a
showing of deliberate and conscious
personal bias
the majority held over descent that the
Equal Protection Clause had not been
violated
at most the court says the ball this
study indicates that discrepancy
that appears to correlate with race
apparent disparities in sentencing
are an inevitable part of our criminal
justice system
and this is very much in keeping with
the supreme court's ruling sends
Washington v Davis in 1976
when the court began to back away from
its commitments to racial justice
since then the court has systematically
guided
federal state and local civil rights
legislation whatever that legislation
seeks to attack discriminatory
outcomes. The assistance that
discrimination only exists when it
consious
a product hate immunizes
all other forms racialized inequality
from legal scrutiny
and it's not only federal law but state
law in the United States that is acted
to protect
racial discrimination in criminal
justice in 2009
North Carolina Governor beverly Perdue
signed the racial justice
Act into law. The opening provisional is
Act declared that " no person shall
be subject to you are given a sentence
of death
or shall be executed pursuant to any
judgment that was sought or obtained on
the basis of race "
and it further provided that if the
court finds that race was a significant
factor
in decisions to seek or impose the
sentence of death the death sentence
imposed by the judgment shall be vacated.
In contrast to McCleskey versus Kemp
North Carolina's Racial Justice Act allowed
courts to consider statistical evidence
in identifying biased in and across
cases as proof of racial discrimination
and when allowed to consider such
evidence
courts did fine this discrimination. In
April 2010
two days before the 25th anniversary
McCleskey versus Kemp
a judge issued the first decision under
the Racial Justice Act
commuting the death sentence is Marcus
Rehman Robinson
to life without parole. Robertson had
been sentenced to death for kidnapping a
17-year-old boy
shooting him to death and stealing his
car and $27 from his wallet
based on a statistical study of racial
disparities during jury selection
Judge Gregory Weeks of Cumberland County
Superior Court found that
"race was a materially practically and
statistically significant factor"
in the jury selection process not only
in mister robinson's trial
but in trials across the county the state. His 167 page ruling concluded in
fact that there was intentional
discrimination
at every level. On June 19th 2013
Republican Governor Pat McCrory signed
legislation repealing the act
nearly every person on death row
regardless of race has appealed their
death sentence under the Racial Justice Act
McCrory told the press,  the state's
district attorneys are nearly unanimous
missing their bipartisan conclusion that
the Racial Justice Act
created a judicial loophole to avoid the
death penalty
and not a path to justice
When he spoke even though african-americans made
approximately 22 percent of the state's
population
they constituted 53 percent up the 153
convicts awaiting
execution in North Carolina. So we can
put
Lawrence Brewer to death for the killing
and James Byrd
we can put Sean Barry in prison for life
and Don King on death row for hate crimes
but the state of Georgia and the state
of North Carolina are not accountable
for the mass incarceration a black and
brown people in American jails and
prisons
indeed by condemning poor white
supremacist East Texas to death we can
feel like we've moved on from racism
that were post-racial.  Move along nothing
to see here
as well as calling out the law
and the state for the role in making
violence and pain visible
critical legal theory calls out the law
for its role in mobilizing
violence and pain because once we have
mastered the flinch
we can learn to use pain as a
resource tool
the law helps us what projects are
marginalization
exploitation forced assimilation and
extermination when he creates categories
of beings were protected by law
and categories the beings who are not.
The concept of the criminal
the slave the negro
the illegal alien all do this work
as Manisha  Deco argues even the
concept of the human
the concept on which the idea of human
rights is based does this work
to dehumanize a person is to deactivate
the flinch
to disconnect a being from the circuitry a
fellow feeling
and what does the word animal do
but precisely this. What is an animal
except the sentioned being that is not
human
a sentioned being that is legally property
a sentioned being we can do anything we
like to
because it's not human. So conventionally
we think I've critical theory as an
intellectual enterprise
an attempt to bring enlightenment to the
masses through the force logic and reason
But critical theory is just as much a
moral and ethical enterprise
part of its charges to use the head to
bring us back into the body
to the flinch to the spark that jumps
between ourselves and the other
the charger critical theory is to be
alive and awake
to suffering. Like the human rights
organizations who send us gruesome
pictures in the mail
critical theorist make emotional moral
appeals to shock us back into our bodies
into the open it unguarded connection
with another
that enables us to feel anothers
suffering is our own
now I want to acknowledge that by itself
the flinch the connection is not yet a
moral ethical model
it represents only the capacity for
compassion
not compassionate it's self because we can
feel the flinch and turn away from it
accepting our own intellectual
contradictions we can love our dogs and
still
eat our factory farm chickens. We can
fall in love with our own sensitivity
our capacity to care
turned to charity and pity reconciling
power with sympathy. Or we can feel it
all to the point that we fall into
hopelessness and powerlessness
Don we have powers everywhere and
there's nothing I can do
and yet the flinches is the zero-point
the place from which as we talked about
yesterday we can begin again
the place where we can begin to
recognize subordination
to make that deeply ethical demand
for justice. So I've talked about one
limitation of law
which critical race
theory in critical legal theory in
general can help us recognize
the laws sometime complicity with the
suffering that a purports to address
recognizing the complicity of law with 
systems of power allows us to hold a
law to account
for its claims to justice. But the second
limitation of law but i wanna talk about
is what I think I've
is the remainder of Justice what's left
over the irreparable
so is really glad when Faisal opened the
conference yesterday by talking about
the land on which we're sitting
and the Iroquois and Algonquin people who
were here before us
one of the things that neither law nor
justice can ever banish is a ghost
in a few years ago I took a sabbatical
in New Zealand
and in talking to Mauri friends there, they
describe places where there was so much
pain
so many ghossts that they couldn't even be
in certain buildings
and I felt that way moving to the south
the United States will never grant
reparations for slavery
will never grant full reparations for
Indian genocide
but even if it did,  it would not be
enough
what could reparation even mean
centuries later to the decendants. How
could reparations compensate those who are
already gone
and alongside the political and economic
issues of justice
there are psychological and spiritual issues
that attend the unfinished
reconstruction of white settler
societies
the sociologist Avery Gordon speaks of
haunting
as an issue for entire societies. Complex
mass atrocities like those that occurred
in the Atlantic slave trade
an Indian dispossession continue to
reverberate
in the culture down the generations
warping the social fabric of affected
societies
long after the perpetrator regimes
have fallen. In countries like South Africa
the high rates of domestic violence rape
and child abuse
can usually be tied to the traumas
suffered by the nation under apartheid
in the US Canada and New Zealand
Australia
the connection is more subject to debate.
Yet, non-white peoples in those countries
also struggled with the internalized hatred
reflected in alienated family relations
domestic violence
in some cases the hollowing out a
formally strong ethnic communities
cultural studies scholar bell hooks
traces the frequently destructive
male-female relations the maltreatment
of children
in african-american communities as a
deficit of love that's tied to
african-americans pain and shame
about slavery. These community struggles
are only exacerbated by the global
cultural of capitalist accumulation and
consumption
which the only meaningful activity is
satisfying one's immediate desires
with material goods.  Fundamentalist
ethnic and religious movements
provide a source for collective values
in meaning
in this chaos, but often at terrible cost to
women and children
and a social peace so nation-building
is not ordinarily thought to be an issue
for countries in the Global North
but perhaps white settler societies are
also in need
of nation-building not just those over
there. Cultural studies scholar Ann Chang
uses freud
famous essay on mourning and melancholia
to describe the world's and
asian-americans and african-americans
who can either forget nor transcend the
grief of
subordination the question becomes
either perhaps
new or perhaps quite old practices and
techniques that could help
both the descendants of colonized 
conquered and slave people's
and they descend into the conquerors
colonizers and enslavors
to help them surrender to the suffering
morning and grief that arrive when  
denial finally fails
and here I think I've contemplative
practice remindfulness
as a resource for metabolizing suffering
one standard definition of mindfulness
is the practice of paying attention to
the present moment
in a non-judgmental way, but I like the
school of thought that says mindfulness
actually has two wings
discernment and compassion. The practice
of meditation has been developed to
strengthen the ability of the mind to
see what is there
is not there and to be able to tell the
difference but the practice of
meditation is also been developed to
strengthen our ethical capacities
our capacity for empathy compassion
equanimity sympathetic joy, universal
kindness
and here in the Global North we tend to see mindfulness
as Clark was saying yesterday with a
purely inward focus
as an individual practice to make our
personal selves better
so yet another self improvement project
but I'm interested in mindfulness is as a
resource for social justice
fully developed meditation and other
contemplative practices
overlap with political practices of
non-violent resistance
these are practices that can teach
people how to face death without fear
how to fight back without anger how to
let go with bitterness
that doesn't serve. How not to be afraid
of the other
and how to see through the categories
that language
creates.  Michael Nagler says that
meditation is choosing responsiveness
over violence over and over with
contemplative practice we learn how to
sit with suffering and grief
rather than turning away or denying it
we learn how to look deeply into
suffering
to hold pain,  to sit with death and we
learn how the hold paradox
like the capacity for suffering to make
room
for great love.  James Byrd's
children and wife oppose the use of the
death penalty
against his killers. Ross Byrd,  James third
son has been involved with murder
victims families for reconciliation
organization that opposes capital
punishment altogether
"you can't fight murder with murder"
Ross Byrd told a reporter the night before
Lawrence Brewers execution
an excerpt from a newspaper article
written around that time
says that Ross Byrd says the execution
of Brewer
is simply another expression at
the hate shown toward his father on that
dark night in 1998
everybody he said including the
government should choose not to continue
that cycle
everybody's in that position
he said and I hope they will stand back and
look at it
before they go down that road of hate. Like
Gandhi said
an eye for an eye in the whole world
will go blind.  So I see compassion and
critique is one project
the project of coming to terms with
suffering
and Jaques and I were talking yesterday
about one of the themes at this
conference being the tension between
what is formal
standardized abstract reductive
fungible in universal
and the remainder that which is unsayable
irreducible local concrete complex and
unique
critical theory and contemplative
practice provide a supplement to the
project's law and justice
that help us balance in the both and. 
Basil said yesterday that one of the
questions that the conference was
what does it mean to curate the body and
now that I've learned the curation has a
history in care
I think we should root are interest in a
curated body not only info fuco and arts
at the self
but in Gandhi and King in arts of the
social body
learning to sit with suffering
and to renounce violence
well yet still confronting power
is an art that we desperately need to
learn
and that is an art not only of the mind
but of the body...Thanks
