Philip Larkin – The Mower
Philip Larkin’s simple and heartbreaking poem about how to take care of each other and look out for one another.
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What Can the Earth’s Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton’s Tao of Ecology
David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.
I Had a Brother Once: A Poetic Ritual for a Sibling’s Grief
I Had a Brother Once is an elegiac and honest account of the devastation of suicide, the senselessness of grief, and the imperatives and difficulties of narrative when a loved one’s life is on the page.
T.S. Eliot – East Coker from Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot’s epic Four Quartets embodies a mystical vision of human life, time and memory sourced from Christianity and eastern philosophy.
Gil Fronsdal on Immanent and Naturalistic Buddhism
Buddhist teacher and author Gil Fronsdal on the meanings of naturalistic Buddhism, religion, life and death.
Three-Pack as Another Name for Beauty
BY JOCELYN ULEVICUS
An errand for her dying mother takes a daughter shopping for underwear.
Erika Michael – Entanglement
Relationships that defy boundaries: Erika Michael’s ‘Entanglement’ is an ode to her late husband and a poem about love after death.
Issa – This Dewdrop World
Written shortly after the death of his daughter, Issa’s haiku touches deeply on the heart of the human condition.
Life and Death Do Not Exist
In this short chapter from the Shobogenzo, Sho-ji, Dogen plays with the distinction between the nuances of the two different meanings, life and death being static and self-defined events, which he argues have no substance or existence, and living and dying which are an endless flow of events and dynamic being
‘Telling Stories is the Single Thing That Makes Us Human’ – A Conversation with Adam Mansbach
A conversation with Adam Mansbach about loss, grief, and the process of writing his new book, I Had a Brother Once, in the form of an epic poem.
