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Tag: clarity

Essays

The Drawer Where I Keep My Doubts

October 15, 2025September 28, 2025 Vanessa Able

Some people organize their lives by goals. Others, by memories. I seem to organize mine by unfinished questions.

Tagged answers, clarity, clutter, Devotion, dialogue, doubts, drawer, honesty, Process, questions, resolution, unfinished2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Bianca Rey – That Night Mongaup Pond Went Silent

April 27, 2025April 24, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

As readers, we are present in a moment of profound realization in Bianca Rey's poem "That Night Mongaup Pond Went Silent".

Tagged clarity, faith, God, holiness, nature, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacredness1 Comment
GK Chesterton
Poetry

G.K. Chesterton – The Convert

February 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Vanessa Able

G.K. Chesterton's 'The Convert' describes the aftermath of a transition that has taken the poet from an upside-down world onto a shining white road of peace and clarity.

Tagged Catholicism, clarity, conversion, epiphany, peace, Poetry, rebirth, transformation3 Comments

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- 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-

  • Francis Weeks – Unfinished
    In five brief lines, Francis Weeks' "Unfinished" has encompassed life, death, and the endless continuation of life.
  • A Year of Kō: 9th Sekki
    9th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, COLEMAN DAVIS and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Julia Roberts – Pantry Door
    With Zen simplicity and sparseness, Texas poet Julia Roberts expertly displays routine and familiarity with her brief poem "Pantry Door".
  • Colleen Morton Busch – Tend
    With her poem "Tend", Bay Area Zen poet Colleen Morton Busch offers a gift of wisdom, acceptance, and nourishment to readers.
  • A Year of Kō: 8th Sekki
    8th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, ELLIOT DIAMOND AND JOSEPH PALMER

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