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Micro Gallery

Adam Powers – Relative

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022 Vanessa Able

Adam Powers' understated photographs draw out beauty from the forgotten corners of urban and commercial landscapes.

Tagged beauty, everyday, mundane, ordinary, photography, urban landscapeLeave a comment
Thomas Merton
Book Bits

Rooting Firmly Into Life – Thomas Merton on Accepting Reality as It Is

May 10, 2021May 13, 2021 Vanessa Able

Thomas Merton underscores the danger of over-identifying with notions and abstractions rather than with the flesh and bones reality of our own lives.

Tagged abstraction, authority, Christ, doctrine, escapism, everyday, fanaticism, inner life, RealityLeave a comment
Hari B Khalsa
Featured Poetry

Hari B Khalsa – Three Poems

April 18, 2021April 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

These three poems by Hari B Khalsa were written as part of a larger series in the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Tagged birds, everyday, Experience, imagination, women's poetryLeave a comment
Ross Gay
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Ross Gay – Thank You

October 28, 2020October 29, 2020 Vanessa Able

To feel fearful is to feel small and sometimes overwhelmed by life and death which appear to be separate and distinct from one another and from ourselves.

Tagged anger, Death, everyday, Fear, Gratitude, Poetry, separation, Simplicity, smallness2 Comments
Alexandra Horowitz
Book Bits

What is Attention?

October 2, 2020October 2, 2020 Vanessa Able

Alexandra Horowitz asks, what does it really mean to pay attention? Is it beneficial? And how can we be better at it?

Tagged attention, awareness, consciousness, everyday, noticing, observation, walking2 Comments
Joan Chittister
Book Bits

The Sacred is the Everyday – Joan Chittister

May 11, 2020May 11, 2020 Vanessa Able

Benedictine nun Joan Chittister sees spirituality not as something contained in sacred places or practices, but as something deeply integrated into our daily lives.

Tagged Christianity, church, daily life, everyday, here and now, ordinary, sacred, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Wisdom2 Comments
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- BOOK BITS -

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- POETRY-

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    Kahlil Gibran's poem on the fear of dissipation is a call to faith, to trust in the oceanic nature of the life-manifesting force.
  • Will Simescu – Agrapha
    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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