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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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Abdulrazak Gurnah
Speeches

‘The Human Being Appears’ – Abdulrazak Gurnah on the Pleasure and Importance of Writing

January 2, 2024January 2, 2024 Vanessa Able

Abdulrazak Gurnah's rousing 2021 Nobel Prize acceptance speech raises the fundamental question of why we write.

Tagged fiction, Immigration, Literature, Nobel Prize, Postcolonial Writing, race, Racism, Revolution, Tanzania, trauma, Turmoil, Why we Write, Writing, ZanzibarLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Sahar Fathi – All-the-time Home

November 26, 2023November 24, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Iranian-American poet Sahar Fathi offers a discourse on longing and nostalgia with her incredibly poignant poem "All-the-time Home".

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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.

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Heidi Woo
Featured, Featured Poetry

Heidi Woo – The Heart of Our Home

April 1, 2020April 1, 2020 Vanessa Able

The Heart of Our Home is a poem about moving one's life and a meditation on building a new life in a new place that touches upon themes of nostalgia, renewal, and hope

Tagged home, Immigration, moving, transience2 Comments

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Barbara Kingsolver - How to Do Absolutely Nothing
    Barbara Kingsolver - How to Do Absolutely Nothing
  • Gurdjieff and The Two Rivers
    Gurdjieff and The Two Rivers
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • Walt Whitman - O Me! O Life!
    Walt Whitman - O Me! O Life!
  • How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
    How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
  • Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
    Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
  • The Dexterous Butcher - Zhuangzi
    The Dexterous Butcher - Zhuangzi

- 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-

  • 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.
  • Regina Gort-Betances – (Mother) Bear
    Regina Gort-Betances' "(Mother) Bear" is a wild and mournful study of loss and grief, written on a canvas of bone, blood, and root.
  • A Year of Kō: 6th Sekki
    6th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, JOSEPH PALMER and COLEMAN DAVIS

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