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Susan Bauer-Wu
Book Bits

The Problem With Business As Usual – On Interconnectedness and the Climate Crisis

June 30, 2023June 30, 2023 Vanessa Able

Inspired by the work of the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg, Susan Bauer-Wu's book is her personal expression of concern for the earth.

Tagged activism, climate, climate crisis, Dalai Lama, earth, ecology, interbeing1 Comment
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
June Jordan
Uncategorized

June Jordan – Poem for a Young Poet

December 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

A poem expressing the desire for love and connection, going deeper into the shared essence of being that underlies difference.

Tagged activism, Advice, connection, desire, encounters, language, love, Poetry, surfaceLeave a comment
Kathleen Dean Moore
Interview, Why I Write

Why I Write – A Conversation with Kathleen Dean Moore

May 4, 2021June 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Author and activist Kathleen Dean Moore on what inspires her, what drives her, and her struggle to write about hope.

Tagged activism, conversation, earth, ecology, environment, interview, music, philosophy, sound, WritingLeave a comment
Kathleen Dean Moore
Book Bits

Living Like Birds, Loving Like Birds

March 26, 2021March 24, 2021 Vanessa Able

With her book, Earth's Wild Music, Kathleen Dean Moore asks, what can we do in the midst of so much extinction? What is our moral imperative?

Tagged activism, birds, community, Extinction, love, music, nature, Resilience, sound4 Comments
Simone Weil
Book Bits

Simone Weil – The Infinite in an Instant

May 1, 2020May 1, 2020 Vanessa Able

Simone Weil lauds 'unmixed attention', which she likens to prayer, and reflects on the quality of attention, expressed as 'patience, effort and method' to 'understand with our whole self the truths which are evident.'

Tagged activism, attention, effort, faith, infinite, love, patience, prayer, religion, truth, will2 Comments

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Barbara Kingsolver - How to Do Absolutely Nothing
    Barbara Kingsolver - How to Do Absolutely Nothing
  • Gurdjieff and The Two Rivers
    Gurdjieff and The Two Rivers
  • Walt Whitman - O Me! O Life!
    Walt Whitman - O Me! O Life!
  • How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
    How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
  • Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
    Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • The Dexterous Butcher - Zhuangzi
    The Dexterous Butcher - Zhuangzi

- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • Lawrence Bridges – Trees of Ojai
    Poet Lawrence Bridges once again shows readers of The Dewdrop how Zen simplicity and awareness can be a sacred thing.
  • A Year of Kō: 7th Sekki
    7th Sekki poems by JOSEPH PALMER, FRAN SCOTT and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Francis Weeks – Taho Buddha
    "Taho Buddha" by poet Francis Weeks is a minimalist poem which explores a pivotal moment in Nichiren Buddhism.
  • Regina Gort-Betances – (Mother) Bear
    Regina Gort-Betances' "(Mother) Bear" is a wild and mournful study of loss and grief, written on a canvas of bone, blood, and root.
  • A Year of Kō: 6th Sekki
    6th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, JOSEPH PALMER and COLEMAN DAVIS

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