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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 -

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    The psychology of acceptance and the understanding 'that there is only one ultimate reality or source of activity in the universe.'
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- POETRY-

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  • Kahlil Gibran
    Kahlil Gibran – Fear
    Kahlil Gibran's poem on the fear of dissipation is a call to faith, to trust in the oceanic nature of the life-manifesting force.
  • Will Simescu – Agrapha
    Will Simescu's "Agrapha" reveals a search for holiness, contrasting the gritty details of reality with imagery from the life of Christ.
  • Emily Fernandez – Please begin
    The Dewdrop's first Featured Poem of 2023, is an offering from poet Emily Fernandez. It serves as a perfect introduction to the year.
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