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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

Tagged bicultural, cooking, family, food, heritage, home, hope, Immigration, love, the philippinesLeave a comment
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

Tagged bicultural, cooking, family, food, heritage, home, hope, Immigration, love, the philippinesLeave a comment
Beyond the Hills
All About Love

Beyond the Hills

May 1, 2025May 5, 2025 Vanessa Able

Home is the place where the heart first learned to differentiate the real from the unreal and the known from what might never be encountered. BY MAHIN ZIA

Tagged childhood, grandmother, hills, home, love, mountains, Pakistan, Punjab, relationship, Travel6 Comments
Dane Cervine
Book Bits

At Home in the [Burning] World – Haibun by Dane Cervine

November 25, 2024November 25, 2024 Vanessa Able

An excerpt from Dane Cervine's new book of haibun - a coupling of prose and haiku - that catalogues journeys of pilgrimage.

Tagged Basho, haibun, home, Journal, nature, prose, reflections, Travel, ZenLeave a comment
Poetry

Sandra M. Castillo – Christmas, 1970

December 23, 2022December 23, 2022 Vanessa Able

Cuban-born Sandra M. Castillo writes about her first Christmas in the United States, when she was just eight years old.

Tagged grief, home, Homesickness, Immigration, loss, memory, PoetryLeave a comment
Bayou
Way-Seeking Mind

Gully and Bayou

January 18, 2022January 25, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY NEIL ELLIS ORTS This farm boy wandered the acres of woods and explored the gully. I sat under the cedar that grew on a high bank, roots exposed, waiting for the right number of rains to let go.

Tagged Awakening, biography, childhood, God, home, memory, youthLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Martine van Bijlert – this life we built

November 7, 2021November 5, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Martine van Bijlert's poem, this life we built, is a snapshot of domesticity and contentment, but with a tense uncertainty of the future.

Tagged contentment, daily life, domesticity, enough, home, life, life is enough, Loneliness, Poem, poet, Poetry, routine, satisfactionLeave a comment
Erin Pickersgill
Featured Poetry

Erin Pickersgill – For the Pleasure

January 31, 2021February 7, 2021 Vanessa Able

"As the boundaries closed in, and still do, I notice that my world is large and detailed enough to locate all of my questions, and for that I am thankful."

Tagged COVID-19, home, lockdown, nature, spider, webLeave a comment
Andrew Withers
Featured Poetry

Andrew Withers – Beside the Water

November 1, 2020November 1, 2020 Vanessa Able

Andrew Withers' Beside the Water is one of a series of poems written upon his return home to the UK after two years spent living and working in South East Asia.

Tagged adaptation, culture shock, Distance, home, Travel, WaterLeave a comment
Keizan Jokin
Japanese Texts, Texts, The Masters

Returning Home – From Keizan Jokin’s Zazen Yojinki

October 5, 2020October 5, 2020 Vanessa Able

The Zazen Yojinki, written by 14th century Japanese master Keizan Jokin, covers the fundamental aspects of zazen, the form of Zen meditation.

Tagged Body, Buddha, home, Meditation, Mind, ocean, teaching text, zazen, Zazen instruction, ZenLeave a comment

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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: 8th Sekki
    8th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, ELLIOT DIAMOND AND JOSEPH PALMER
  • Sarah Reichert – Divine Struggle
    Colorado poet Sarah Reichart shows how kinetic and arduous the search for faith can be with her poem "Divine Struggle".
  • Lawrence Bridges – Trees of Ojai
    Poet Lawrence Bridges once again shows readers of The Dewdrop how Zen simplicity and awareness can be a sacred thing.
  • A Year of Kō: 7th Sekki
    7th Sekki poems by JOSEPH PALMER, FRAN SCOTT and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Francis Weeks – Taho Buddha
    "Taho Buddha" by poet Francis Weeks is a minimalist poem which explores a pivotal moment in Nichiren Buddhism.
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