DYLAN TWENEY
Dylan Tweney

Dylan Tweney

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Rough Drafts

Zen, death, love, and an exorcism.

Love and Fear: Stories from a Hospice Chaplain by Renshin Bunce My rating: 5 of 5 stars A Zen Buddhist chaplain’s memoir, with many stories shining light on what it means to die, and some of the many different ways it can happen. Written with a gentle, understanding, open heart, and a knack for tell
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The frontline communities that I worked in in Detroit, they can’t go outside because the fumes are too strong. But that same neighborhood, a cop could run up and shoot them. They’re not experiencing these problems separately. And so when you think about it in that way, police violence is another env
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Once there is seeing, there must be acting

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what’s the use of seeing? Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/597047-mindfulness-must-be-engaged-once-there-is-seeing-there-must
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Ordinary people with extraordinary vision

Ordinary people with extraordinary vision can redeem the soul of America by getting in what I call good trouble, necessary trouble. –Rep. John Lewis https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/30/opinion/john-lewis-civil-rights-america.html
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These clouds are where my heart is today https://www.instagram.com/p/CDNaL6tHNB0/?igshid=1n1hw6x5hv1zh
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Today’s Haiku (July 28, 2020)

Today’s Haiku (July 28, 2020) for a lover            in 10 million years from now            I cut dahlias                                    Takajo Mitsuhashi
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Black Lives Matter.

San Mateo meditation demonstration #blacklivesmatter✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 (at Central Park & Recreation Center) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCjkBchp5nV/?igshid=82n1nhzvsio7
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Those who pursue the truth are members of the community of truth-seekers and reformers throughout time and space. They do not resign themselves to a collective fate that offers no laurels.” —Thich Nhat Hanh, Fragrant Palm Leaves Racial Justice / Engaging Together for Change: An Invitation | Plum Vil
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I believe that in most circumstances, doing race work in an integrated setting is harmful. This is not a popular belief, especially among white people. I have been challenged on this time and again, and I keep showing up for these conversations in mixed-race settings and breaking down from the pain
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Media Appearances

CNBC: Who really sent that email?

CNBC’s Andrea Day interviewed me on the topic of email spoofing, and I demonstrated to her how easy it was to impersonate an email message from a domain that wasn’t protected with the authentication technology DMARC. Who really sent that email? Major organizations may be vulnerable to email spoofing
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