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Featured Poetry

Iain Grinbergs – Letter to Shunryū Suzuki (from Northampton, England)

August 3, 2025August 1, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Iain Grinbergs draws our attention to the sacred details around us in "Letter to Shunryū Suzuki (from Northampton, England)".

Tagged awareness, Buddhism, hunger, mundane, nourishment, observation, Poem, poet, Poetry, sacred, Shunryū Suzuki, ZenLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Adam Powers – Relative

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022 Vanessa Able

Adam Powers' understated photographs draw out beauty from the forgotten corners of urban and commercial landscapes.

Tagged beauty, everyday, mundane, ordinary, photography, urban landscapeLeave a comment
Billy Collins
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Billy Collins – The Dead

June 2, 2021May 25, 2021 Vanessa Able

Billy Collins runs with the folkloric notion that the dead are watching us and pushes the image all the way to a reverie of the departed 'rowing themselves slowly through eternity' in glass-bottomed boats.

Tagged Death, Humor, love, mundane, patience, Poetry, reverie, Silence1 Comment
Thich Nhat Hanh
Book Bits

Buddha On The Phone, Buddha Watching TV

February 15, 2021February 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Thich Nhat Hanh offers advice on being our best selves on the phone, when watching TV and even when simply flipping a light switch.

Tagged activity, awareness, chanting, daily life, gathas, mindfulness, mundane, wonderLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

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  • Barbara Kingsolver - How to Do Absolutely Nothing
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  • 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
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    The Ground is Always Shifting - Pema Chodron

- 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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