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Ursula K LeGuin
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Ursula K. Le Guin – Kinship

March 26, 2022March 25, 2022 Vanessa Able

The mystical teachings of trees are beautifully expressed in Ursula K. Le Guin's poem, Kinship, in which she explores our own primal origins.

Tagged being, forest, interbeing, life, nature, Poetry, TreesLeave a comment
Autumn Leaves
Way-Seeking Mind

Remember the Bear

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022 Vanessa Able

BY JENNIFER CHRISTGAU AQUINO When the fall the sky turned orange from fire, and a pandemic roared, and the children lay in bed all day, and cancer took residence in your armpits, you found a bear in your basement.

Tagged cancer, Care, Death, life, mortality, sickness, struggleLeave a comment
Salamander
Way-Seeking Mind

Salamander

December 21, 2021December 20, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY ELANA MARGOT SANTANA Yesterday I found a salamander resting or dying in my garden. Translucent blood red skin with yellow speckles, big black bulging eyes...

Tagged Advice, Care, Compassion, Death, life, living, loss, love, nature, reptile1 Comment
Vanessa Able
Featured Poetry

Vanessa Able – Bhakti

December 5, 2021December 8, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

In her beautiful poem Bhakti, Vanessa Able gives life and imagery to action--specifically the action of the devotional philosophy of Bhakti yoga, which is focused on the love for a personal deity.

Tagged Advice, beauty, Devotion, Four Yogas, life, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, wonder, yoga, Zen4 Comments
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
Featured Poetry

Derek Furr – The Meadow

October 31, 2021October 29, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Derek Furr has given readers something truly beautiful with his poem The Meadow, an idyllic narrative and a parable that both questions whether this life is enough and also gives us the answer.

Tagged Advice, journey, life, Life is beautiful, life is enough, parable, pilgrimage, Poem, Poetry, Wandering3 Comments
Featured Poetry

Jenna Wysong Filbrun – Church

September 26, 2021September 24, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

Jenna Wysong Filbrun's Church is an ode to nature, life, and belonging in a time of spiritual upheaval, an ode to the wilderness, which was humanity's first place of worship.

Tagged belonging, church, divine, divinity, God, life, nature, Poem, Poetry, Spirituality, wildernessLeave a comment
Maggie Smith
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Maggie Smith – Good Bones

August 4, 2021August 4, 2021 Vanessa Able

Maggie Smith's beautiful and poignant poem about the how to parent and teach beauty to our children.

Tagged Advice, Children, life, love, motherhood, Poetry1 Comment
Annie Dillard
Book Bits

This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?

May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 Vanessa Able

Annie Dillard celebrates humanity by taking the widest view of its activities, hopes, dreams and values. She then asks, what would we really do with this new, expanded perspective?

Tagged Awakening, conditioned thinking, Culture, Inspiration, life, perspective, This precious life, values, WisdomLeave a comment
Mencius
Book Bits, The Masters

Mencius – To Fathom the Mind

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 Vanessa Able

Chinese philosopher Mencius' core conviction was that human nature is fundamentally good and pure and only sullied by societal living.

Tagged Advice, Chinese philosophy, Confucianism, life, Mind, seeking, shame, WisdomLeave a comment

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