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Featured Poetry

John Paul Caponigro – Test for Echo

November 27, 2022November 25, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

John Paul Caponigro's "Test for Echo" is an ode to connection and communication in a world that feels as disconnected as ever.

Tagged Communication, connection, contact, Fire, Interconnectedness, Loneliness, Poem, poet, Poetry, signal, SolitudeLeave a comment
Resmaa Menakem
Book Bits

Working With the Soul Nerve – Resmaa Menakem on Grounding Our Bodies

September 30, 2021September 30, 2021 Vanessa Able

Starting with the damage done by racism to human bodies, Resmaa Menakem presents a pragmatic approach to healing through the body.

Tagged Body, Communication, emotions, grounding, health, lizard brain, mindfulness, Practice, soul nerve, trauma, vagus nerve2 Comments
Stephen Dunn
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Stephen Dunn – Allegory of the Cave

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 Vanessa Able

Stephen Dunn imagines the loneliness of the visionary who captures a radical truth but is unable to communicate what he has seen and understood to his fellow prisoners.

Tagged Communication, epiphany, knowledge, Light, plato's cave, Poetry2 Comments
William Stafford
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William Stafford – A Ritual to Read to Each Other

May 27, 2020December 29, 2020 Vanessa Able

We must endeavor to rise above the patterns set out for us by others, according to Stafford, and not follow in a line like elephants holding each other's tails; it is imperative, he writes, that 'awake people be awake' since 'the darkness around us is deep'.

Tagged 2020, Communication, conscious, honesty, patterns, Poetry, Relationships1 Comment
Shunryu Suzuki
Book Bits

Expressing Yourself the Way That You Are – Shunryu Suzuki on Communication

March 3, 2020 Vanessa Able

Shunryu Suzuki always admitted his own difficulty with the English language, but also addressed the deeper problem of human communication, namely that 'when we say something, our subjective intention or situation is always involved.'

Tagged Communication, listening, Suzuki, Zen, Zen Mind Beginners MindLeave a comment
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- BOOK BITS -

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    Will Simescu's "Agrapha" reveals a search for holiness, contrasting the gritty details of reality with imagery from the life of Christ.
  • Emily Fernandez – Please begin
    The Dewdrop's first Featured Poem of 2023, is an offering from poet Emily Fernandez. It serves as a perfect introduction to the year.
 

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