“Watching a new person grow is remarkable and humbling, but no more than watching a person you parent become a parent herself and begin to learn all the joys and sorrows of that role. As the Buddha taught, everything changes, and due to our attachment and clinging to what is irrevocably impermanent, we suffer. Parenthood is perhaps our field of greatest attachment, and therefore also our field of greatest suffering as well as joy.”

A current resident of central Florida, Ken Turner has lived and taught in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the US. His work has appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, Silk Road, Waccamaw Journal, Asian Cha, and elsewhere, including several anthologies, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.