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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.

Tagged grief, home, Homesickness, Immigration, loss, memory, PoetryLeave a comment
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

  • E.E. Cummings - Let It Go—The
    E.E. Cummings - Let It Go—The
  • 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
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
  • Rebecca Elson - Antidotes to Fear of Death
    Rebecca Elson - Antidotes to Fear of Death
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - For When We Greet Each Other
    Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - For When We Greet Each Other

- 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-

  • Mark J. Mitchell – Lazy Afternoon Poem
    Longtime San Francisco-based poet Mark J. Mitchell eases readers into the warm heavy heart of summer with his "Lazy Afternoon Poem".
  • A Year of Kō: 10th Sekki
    10th Sekki poems by JOSPEH PALMER, ELLIOT DIAMOND and COLEMAN DAVIS
  • Erica Miriam Fabri – The Bride and the Wolf
    Brooklyn poet Erica Miriam Fabri presents a dialogue of love, loss, and acceptance in her dramatic and melancholic "The Bride and the Wolf".
  • Francis Weeks – Unfinished
    In five brief lines, Francis Weeks' "Unfinished" has encompassed life, death, and the endless continuation of life.
  • A Year of Kō: 9th Sekki
    9th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, COLEMAN DAVIS and ELLIOT DIAMOND

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