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All About Love

The Taste of Honey, the Sting of Bees

March 12, 2026March 11, 2026 Vanessa Able

When a wild honeybee colony claims an empty backyard hive, their arrival could be a divine metaphor for a new relationship. BY STACEY BALKUN

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All About Love

Home is in a Recipe

February 19, 2026February 19, 2026 Vanessa Able

Discovering how food transcends nourishment to embody love, memory, and belonging. BY NATHALIE DE LOS SANTOS

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Featured Poetry

Jerrice J. Baptiste – Spicy Buddha

April 23, 2023April 20, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

With Zen-like simplicity, poet Jerrice J. Baptiste invites us to a seat at her table with the delectable "Spicy Buddha".

Tagged Buddha, Buddhism, community, connection, family, food, Interconnectedness, Poem, poet, Poetry, Zen1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Bradley Samore – After a Day of Others’ Demands

April 3, 2022April 3, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Zen-like in its purposeful simplicity, poet Bradley Samore has made us something humble and wholesome with his poem, "After a Day of Others' Demands".

Tagged domesticity, food, healing, nourishment, Poem, poet, Poetry, Simplicity, wellness, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Elisabeth Preston-Hsu – Kitsune Udon

March 13, 2022March 14, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Like a steaming bowl of delicious flavors, Elisabeth Preston-Hsu's "Kitsune Udon" is a recipe of mythology, Zen simplicity, and storytelling.

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Vanessa Escobar
Featured Poetry

Vanessa Escobar – Why I Can’t Eat My Grandmother’s Fried Liver and Onions

February 21, 2021February 19, 2021 Vanessa Able

Vanessa Escobar: "I was always conflicted growing up. But I think in my resistance I missed some things. My grandmother wasn't just being a dutiful wife, she was showing her love."

Tagged childhood, food, influence, Latinx, love1 Comment

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- BOOK BITS -

  • Don’t Waste Suffering: Ramiro López Larroy on Opening the Doors of Liberation
    How can we use the things that give us difficulty in our lives to learn and grow, rather than avoiding them, or trying to push them away?
  • 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.


- POETRY-

  • A Year of Kō: 16th Sekki
    16th Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, MADISON WILLIAMS and SHAOMEI YU
  • Bob Rama – Ascetic Aesthetics
    Translator and poet Bob Rama shines a little candlelight on ascetic renunciation in his pleasingly-titled poem "Ascetic Aesthetics".
  • Emily Tong – Girlhood Ghazal
    Using the ancient poetic form of the ghazal, Asian-American poet Emily Tong searches for home in her "Girlhood Ghazal".
  • A Year of Kō: 15th Sekki
    15th Sekki poems by SHAOMEI YU, COLEMAN DAVIS AND NADINE LEITSO
  • Riley Danvers – [Soma]tic
    Oregon poet Riley Danvers reveals what it means to be human in a painful state of flux in her avant-garde [Soma]tic.
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