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Featured Poetry

Jenna Wysong Filbrun – Lost Creek Wilderness (Communion)

May 12, 2024May 10, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Jenna Wysong Filbrun's "Lost Creek Wilderness (Communion)" is both an ode to wilderness and to the sacredness inherent in it.

Tagged adventure, hike, hiking, holiness, mountains, nature, nature writing, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacred, sacredness1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Christine Andersen – Breaking the Rules

November 12, 2023November 9, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Christine Andersen's "Breaking the Rules" reveals the release and healing to be found blooming and flowing in the wild places of the earth.

Tagged hike, hiking, letting go, nature, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, release, sorrow, unburdening1 Comment
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Way-Seeking Mind

Breathing

April 19, 2022April 18, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY SONIA TRICKEY We began our ascent of the South Cirque at 5:20am. Snow had fallen thickly overnight, the path was invisible and it was very dark. Most of us had barely slept.

Tagged grief, hiking, landscape, morocco, mountains, nature, SilenceLeave a comment
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Way-Seeking Mind

In Praise of Winter Hiking

February 22, 2022February 11, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY ANTHONY EMERSON December is here, and soon snow will fall and accumulate in amounts that must be measured in feet.

Tagged Acadia, hiking, Maine, nature, snow, winterLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Samara Landau – Happenstance

July 11, 2021July 11, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

'Happenstance' by Samara Landau is a work of complexity, pattern, and rhythm, set around fate, coincidence, and loss.

Tagged accident, coincidence, destiny, happenstance, hike, hiking, loss, memory, outdoors, strangers2 Comments

TOP POSTS

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  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
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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-

  • A Year of Kō: 13th Sekki
    13th Sekki poems by BENJAMIN TANNER LLOYD, SHAOMEI YU and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Jonathan Jones – man in the rain
    It's not without harshness and brutal honesty that poet Jonathan Jones lays out all the discomforts of reality in his poem "man in the rain".
  • A Year of Kō: 12th Sekki
    12th Sekki poems by JOYCE RITCHIE, ELLIOT DIAMOND and COLEMAN DAVIS
  • Nathan Bakken – How to Be a Theologian
    Poet and theologian Nathan Bakken writes a three-part discourse on working in faith with his poem "How to Be a Theologian".
  • Richard Pettigrew – Drunken Flora
    Surfer-poet of Hawaii, Richard Pettigrew, once again swings by The Dewdrop, this time with a botanical tragedy "Drunken Flora".
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