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LW:

So I guess this long silent retreat ahead of you is something you’ve been waiting for for a long time. Do

you have any aspiration for yourself in these three months?

AS:

I think I want to work more with acceptance, you know, getting to know the banks of the river... and

more kindness, for myself and for others. I think that’s the main thing.

Lise Weil - was founder and editor of the US feminist

review Trivia: A Journal of Ideas (1982-1991) and co-

founder of its online offshoot Trivia: Voices of Feminism,

which she edited through 2011 and which is now

published by an editorial collective at the University of

Arizona ( www.triviavoices.com ). She recently completed

a memoir, In Search of Pure Lust, centering on the

tension between the grand experiment of lesbian-

feminism of the ‘70s and ‘80s, in which she was a fervent

participant, and her later immersion in Buddhist practice.

In 1990, she left Western Mass. for Montreal, where she

has lived ever since. She teaches in Goddard College’s

Graduate Institute.