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Tag: Advice

Archibald Macleish
Poetry

Archibald Macleish – Ars Poetica

June 19, 2023June 19, 2023 Vanessa Able

A reflection on the silence, stillness and powerful presence of poetry by one of the 21st century's leading modernist poets.

Tagged Advice, Poetry, reflection, Silence, StillnessLeave a comment
E.E. Cummings
Book Bits

E.E. Cummings – Let It Go—The

May 27, 2022May 31, 2022 Vanessa Able

E.E. Cummings reflects on the necessity of clearing, of letting go of the things we cling to, in order to make way for love.

Tagged Advice, clearing, letting go, love, Poetry1 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
Philip Booth
Uncategorized

Philip Booth – First Lesson

December 17, 2021December 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

A father teaches his daughter the art of buoyancy and incants a blessing for her survival.

Tagged Advice, blessing, Children, love, parenthood, Poetry1 Comment
Vanessa Able
Featured Poetry

Vanessa Able – Bhakti

December 5, 2021December 8, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

In her beautiful poem Bhakti, Vanessa Able gives life and imagery to action--specifically the action of the devotional philosophy of Bhakti yoga, which is focused on the love for a personal deity.

Tagged Advice, beauty, Devotion, Four Yogas, life, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, wonder, yoga, Zen4 Comments
June Jordan
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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
Featured Poetry

Gay Guard-Chamberlin – “Do You Have Any Advice for Those of Us Just Starting Out?”

November 28, 2021November 28, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

In “Do You Have Any Advice for Those of Us Just Starting Out?”, Gay Guard-Chamberlin poses a common question with the poem's title, which is then succinctly answered in the four brief lines that comprise the poem itself.

Tagged Advice, Devotion, Micropoetry, Poem, poet, Poetry, Simplicity, Writing, Zen4 Comments
Featured Poetry

Derek Furr – The Meadow

October 31, 2021October 29, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Derek Furr has given readers something truly beautiful with his poem The Meadow, an idyllic narrative and a parable that both questions whether this life is enough and also gives us the answer.

Tagged Advice, journey, life, Life is beautiful, life is enough, parable, pilgrimage, Poem, Poetry, Wandering3 Comments
CS Lewis
Book Bits

Letting the Old Thrills Die: C.S. Lewis on Being Alive to New Joy

October 13, 2021October 12, 2021 Vanessa Able

Holding on to what is thrilling to us can be stifling and prevent us from paving the way for new experiences.

Tagged Advice, Christian philosophy, holding on, letting go, love, marriage, Relationships, romanticism, thrillLeave a comment
Albert Einstein
Book Bits

The Most Beautiful Thing We Can Experience Is The Mysterious: Albert Einstein’s Living Philosophy

September 15, 2021September 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Albert Einstein lays out his living philosophy and the set of ideals that he held in his personal, spiritual and political life.

Tagged Advice, meaning, mystery, philosophy, purpose, religion, science, wonderLeave a comment

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