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Podcast

Turning Words With Hozan Alan Senauke

Alan Senauke shares turning words from his life, including the powerful invitation from his own teacher to “let things fall apart”.

Bewilderness Writing Workshops

ONLY ON THE DEWDROP - a writing workshop to set free your creative beasts and put you in touch with your own authentic expression.

INTERVIEWS

Pigs in Winter

BY QUINCY MCMICHAEL
Snow is water, and water conducts electricity, but the electric fence will not fire as usual, buried three feet deep.

Observed by Deer

BY SARA MCAULAY
I’ve come here for raptors. Left my campsite at dawn, hiked down through blue shadows to the meadow.

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MICRO GALLERY

Adam Powers – Relative

Adam Powers’ understated photographs draw out beauty from the forgotten corners of urban and commercial landscapes.

Passersby

BY JOANN STEVELOS –
What happens when an abandoned child grows up and one day buries her estranged father

FEATURED AUTHORS AND POETS

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MYSTICS

POPULAR READS

Zen Tree

FROM THE ZEN GARDEN

Spence Pfleiderer – A Simple Morning Prayer

The aptly-named A Simple Morning Prayer pleads for understanding and love, for connection and illumination in a handful of terse lines. This piece is evidence that a poem need not be complex or long-winded to be a thing of authentic beauty and power.

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Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell On Experiencing Mystery

Joseph Campbell takes on the notion of experiencing mystery and considers how religious narratives can actually stymie the expansive human experience of transcendence.

FROM THE ARCHIVES

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Welcome to The Dewdrop! This little journal is a digest of reflective and powerful writing focused on reading, writing and being. Scroll on for poetry, essays, book excerpts and classic texts.