The possibility of a melodious tenderness found within deeper, softer levels of our individual grasping, struggling, imperfect humanity.
Tag: Freedom
‘The Only Way To Be Free’ – Oren Jay Sofer on Why Mindfulness Is More Than Just Paying Attention
How continuous awareness can be a catalyst for radical personal freedom and transformation.
Corinne Hughes – Cullen Island, Anacortes
In "Cullen Island, Anacortes" poet Corinne Hughes reveals brash and radiant liberation from the unwelcome masculine darknesses of the past.
R. B. Simon – Shorn
Poet R. B. Simon's "Shorn" is a concise self-reflective piece, in which the narrator desires to be unburdened and liberated of decades' worth of burdens.
Discourse on the Absolute Truth
According to Buddhist teaching, clinging to views is an empty and futile way of interfacing with the world.
‘Nature is Never Finished’ – Artist Robert Smithson on Cultural Confinement and Finding Real Freedom in Art
Robert Smithson's brand of land art went against the hegemony of galleries and museums who he accused of dictating the context, meaning and value of art.
‘Your Job Is to Put On a Splendid Performance’: Epictetus’ Design for a Skillful and Happy Life
Epictetus' path to freedom attends to the aspects of life that can be controlled, while meeting with equanimity the things we can do nothing about.
Wendy Blaxland – That Wind
For Wendy Blaxland, That Wind is a poetic response to what happens in her immediate natural world.
Jennifer Chesnut – Little Bird
Jennifer Chesnut wrote Little Bird while doing what she does every morning after rising – she was looking out the window, processing dreams, watching birds and writing poetry.
Mark Christopherson – Interval and Slip
Our days are so familiar, yet, unexpectedly at times, we slip loose from the narrative that is shaping our perspectives.