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Category: Way-Seeking Mind

Way-Seeking Mind

Ode to the Radio Telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Before its Collapse

December 7, 2021December 7, 2021 Ellis Elliott

BY MARY DINGEE FILLMORE You listen all the time to the whispers of faraway stars’ radio signals. They barely flutter, but you’re more sensitive than any other telescope in the world.

Tagged astronomy, beauty, listening, observation, space, Stars, Universe5 Comments
Bat
Way-Seeking Mind

Sunset Meditation

November 8, 2021November 8, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY JOHN BRANTINGHAM Sunset comes late in High Sierra Summers, and by the time it does, I’m usually done for the day.

Tagged Awakening, beauty, centering, here and now, Meditation, mountains, nature, peace, presence, sunsetLeave a comment
Way-Seeking Mind

My Backspaces

October 19, 2021October 18, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY CHARLENE MOSKAL As I age I find I can no longer enter certain rooms. I see backspaces inhabited by specters of a world fading into my past.

Tagged age, Awakening, choice, memory, reflection, truth, WisdomLeave a comment
Morning Toast
Way-Seeking Mind

Morning Toast

September 28, 2021September 28, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY VINCENT PUZICK I remember the smell of toast. I was in the middle of my morning minutes of Transcendental Meditation when my mother got home from her graveyard shift at the hospital.

Tagged addiction, adolescence, Awakening, childhood, Meditation, memory, morning, motherLeave a comment
photography of leafless tree surrounded by snow
Way-Seeking Mind

Pandemic Snow

September 7, 2021September 7, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY JONATHAN H. MARKS A few years ago, when I was on an international fellowship in Geneva, some friends asked me to go to the mountains for the afternoon.

Tagged Experience, mountains, nature, pandemic, renewal, Silence, snowLeave a comment
Way-Seeking Mind

Flow

June 30, 2021June 28, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY JESSE CURRAN For the first mile, I replay last night. New Year's Eve. We're celebrating from our separate living rooms...

Tagged authority, flow, humanism, Identity, ownership, runningLeave a comment
Way-Seeking Mind

Leaving

April 8, 2021April 7, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY MICHELLE NICHOLAYSEN When I left the Seventh-day Adventists, I thought I could keep the love and forget the wrath.

Tagged childhood, Christianity, departure, healing, leaving, religion, religious history, seventh day adventists1 Comment
Serape
Way-Seeking Mind

Serape

March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY SARAH CHAVERA EDWARDS I never knew him in life. The man with calloused hands and almond eyes that would turn into half-moons when he laughed.

Tagged ancestry, chicana, family, inheritance, memoir3 Comments
Mockingbird
Way-Seeking Mind

Hey, Mockingbird

February 16, 2021February 16, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY ABIGAIL KING This is how it began: mornings, sitting outside on a stone bench, listening to the mockingbird. You exist. I exist.

Tagged being, epiphany, illumination, interbeing, Interconnectedness, mockingbird, revelation4 Comments
Intersection
Way-Seeking Mind

Intersection

December 17, 2020December 16, 2020 Vanessa Able

BY NATALIE MUCKER J-o-s. He wrote on the white board in purple marker, then spun to face us—a handful of seated strangers—in the small, neat room.

Tagged brain, magic, mantra, Meditation, sound1 Comment

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