Welcome to the August Ravi-palooza :) Please save this email and check out the links. I am debuting several new works! Scroll down for details - on poetry and photography about San Francisco, YouTube series on compassion, podcast interviews, and new blogposts. Also, ravichandramd.com has had a total makeover! Check it out and tell me what you think.

Eastwind Books in Berkeley and Forest Books in San Francisco are carrying Facebuddha: Transcendence in the Age of Social Networks this month. If you haven't purchased a copy yet, please do so and support these great indie bookstores!

36 Views of San Francisco represents an outpouring of words, ideas and images over the last two months. I put a lot of energy and heart into this work - I hope you find some time to peruse and listen to the poems and look at the photos. The Soundcloud playlist will take you about an hour to listen to, plus another half hour for a conversation with Buddhist scholar Paula Arai on women in Buddhism (a topic of one of my poems.)

Finally, please go out and see Bing Liu's great indie film MINDING THE GAP, opening at the Roxie on Friday August 17th. I wrote about it in MOSF 13.2: Films that will love you back.

36 Views of San Francisco - an poetry and photography project reckoning with the changing city and my own spirit in the Summer of 2018!  http://bit.ly/36viewsofsf

Compassion Videos - 4-5 minute videos on Understanding Anger, the American Identity Crisis,
and the emotions underlying the Immigration crisis.
Playlist here.

Think Opposite podcast with Alison Donaghey. Broadcast August 1, 2018. We covered a wide range of topics including feminism and the MRA movement, as well as compassion online and off.
 On iHeart Radio (and iTunes)
How Social Media Falls Short

More Facebuddha related podcasts online.

BLOGPOSTS

On Han, Soul, the Collective Psyche and Microaggressions

Can Mindfulness and Compassion Save the World?

"For Izzy" Explores Autism, Addiction and APIA Families