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Featured Poetry

Carolyn Chilton Casas – Destiny

February 15, 2026February 14, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

The couplets of Carolyn Chilton Casas' "Destiny" reveal an empowering poetic manifesto of awareness and interconnectedness.

Tagged awareness, belonging, connection, destiny, Identity, Interconnectedness, Moon, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, wildlifeLeave a comment
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Poetry

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer – For When We Greet Each Other

November 21, 2024November 25, 2024 Vanessa Able

A poem about seeing and honoring what is divine in others and in ourselves, as though all our lives depended on it.

Tagged Affection, beauty, belonging, Care, friendship, greeting, love, offering, Poetry, ritual, safety, serviceLeave a comment
John O Donohue
Book Bits

John O’Donohue on Soul Friendship

March 25, 2022April 23, 2025 Vanessa Able

Ancient Celtic tradition upheld soul-friendships and the potential for inner growth that they teased out.

Tagged belonging, celtic, companionship, friendship, guide, love, recognition, soul friend, Teacher, Understanding1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Jenna Wysong Filbrun – Church

September 26, 2021September 24, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Jenna Wysong Filbrun's Church is an ode to nature, life, and belonging in a time of spiritual upheaval, an ode to the wilderness, which was humanity's first place of worship.

Tagged belonging, church, divine, divinity, God, life, nature, Poem, Poetry, Spirituality, wilderness1 Comment

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
  • Shunryu Suzuki's Waterfall - On Separation and Death
    Shunryu Suzuki's Waterfall - On Separation and Death
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
    Rebecca Solnit's Blue of Distance
  • Billy Collins - The Dead
    Billy Collins - The Dead
  • A Year of Kō: 6th Sekki
    A Year of Kō: 6th Sekki
  • Issa - This Dewdrop World
    Issa - This Dewdrop World
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone

- 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-

  • 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
  • Deja Carr – We Held Hands in Prayers, Then I Forgot You
    Deja Carr, poet and musician, creates a altar to gratitude and mixed blessings with her "We Held Hands in Prayers, Then I Forgot You".
  • Constance Clark – Why I Stop & Stare
    Poet Constance Clark treats readers to springtime interconnectedness and abundance with her masterful "Why I Stop & Stare".
  • A Year of Kō: 5th Sekki
    5th Sekki poems by JOSEPH PALMER, SHERRY WEAVER SMITH and COLEMAN DAVIS

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