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Category: Way-Seeking Mind

Way-Seeking Mind

Pigs in Winter

August 10, 2022August 28, 2022 Vanessa Able

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

Tagged childhood, landscape, love, nature, pigs, snowLeave a comment
Way-Seeking Mind

Observed by Deer

August 5, 2022August 5, 2022 Vanessa Able

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

Tagged deer, Fear, Gratitude, love, nature, waiting2 Comments
Way-Seeking Mind

This Is For You

June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY BETH SHELBURNE This is for you, he says, dropping the wet, glistening shell into my open palm like a coin.

Tagged Gift, Gratitude, love, mnemoactive objects, nature, Relationships, shells3 Comments
Way-Seeking Mind

Last Temptation

April 28, 2022April 28, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY MARY DOWNES How Nikos Kazantzakis’ “The Last Temptation of Christ” changed my understanding of Christianity - at 24, Jesus of Nazareth became personal.

Tagged activism, autobiography, Inspiration, jesus christ, Literature, reading, spiritual historyLeave a comment
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Way-Seeking Mind

Breathing

April 19, 2022April 18, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY SONIA TRICKEY We began our ascent of the South Cirque at 5:20am. Snow had fallen thickly overnight, the path was invisible and it was very dark. Most of us had barely slept.

Tagged grief, hiking, landscape, morocco, mountains, nature, SilenceLeave a comment
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Way-Seeking Mind

In Praise of Winter Hiking

February 22, 2022February 11, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY ANTHONY EMERSON December is here, and soon snow will fall and accumulate in amounts that must be measured in feet.

Tagged Acadia, hiking, Maine, nature, snow, winterLeave a comment
Way-Seeking Mind

The Loss

January 25, 2022January 25, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY EDWARD M COHEN I only write this down because it causes so much pain. It involves so much loss that in the moment, when I awake with no desire to rush for a pen, it’s hard to see the value in what is happening.

Tagged biography, creativity, loss, memoir, obsession, writer's block, WritingLeave a comment
Bayou
Way-Seeking Mind

Gully and Bayou

January 18, 2022January 25, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY NEIL ELLIS ORTS This farm boy wandered the acres of woods and explored the gully. I sat under the cedar that grew on a high bank, roots exposed, waiting for the right number of rains to let go.

Tagged Awakening, biography, childhood, God, home, memory, youthLeave a comment
Autumn Leaves
Way-Seeking Mind

Remember the Bear

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY JENNIFER CHRISTGAU AQUINO When the fall the sky turned orange from fire, and a pandemic roared, and the children lay in bed all day, and cancer took residence in your armpits, you found a bear in your basement.

Tagged cancer, Care, Death, life, mortality, sickness, struggleLeave a comment
Salamander
Way-Seeking Mind

Salamander

December 21, 2021December 20, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY ELANA MARGOT SANTANA Yesterday I found a salamander resting or dying in my garden. Translucent blood red skin with yellow speckles, big black bulging eyes...

Tagged Advice, Care, Compassion, Death, life, living, loss, love, nature, reptile1 Comment

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- BOOK BITS -

  • Orhan Pamuk
    Orhan Pamuk on Writing By Hand
    Orhan Pamuk's hand-writing habit hasn't budged, despite the conventions of our time.
  • Pema Chodron
    How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
    Pema Chödrön on what the Tibetan approach to living and dying can teach us about liberation in the present moment.
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    Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on her own experience of Labyrinth-walking and the significance of the path without a destination.
  • David Hinton
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    David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.
  • Virginia Woolf
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    Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.


- POETRY-

  • Michael Grimwood – God Ecology
    Poet Michael Grimwood takes readers on a journey into divine realms of leaf, blossom, and holiness with his imaginative poem "God Ecology".
  • Stacey Elza – To Build a Bow
    Juxtaposing the antagonistic nature of humanity with the protective and peaceful side, poet Stacey Elza offers readers "To Build a Bow".
  • Ricardo Gonzalez-Rothi – Faraway, near Nordfjordeid
    Redolent with the folklore of the cold north, Cuban-American poet Ricardo Gonzalez-Rothi offers a magical poem, "Faraway, near Nordfjordeid".
  • Why I Write: Jenna Wysong Filbrun
    In the wake of her new collection, Away, we reached out to poet Jenna Wysong Filbrun to find out more about her motivations and process.
  • Jenna Wysong Filbrun – Aspiration
    Jenna Wysong Filbrun reminds us that we have so much to learn from the natural world, with her poem "Aspiration".
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