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Anais Nin
Book Bits

The Expression of a Better World – Anaïs Nin on Transience and the Painful, Familiar Beauty of Music

November 20, 2021November 19, 2021 Vanessa Able

Anaïs Nin on music, mortality, and what it is to glimpse a joyful vision of a land from which we came and which we have forgotten.

Tagged Death, exile, impermanence, intervals, music, nostalgia, notes, sorrow, space, transience1 Comment
Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Cohen – Roshi

September 2, 2021September 2, 2021 Vanessa Able

Leonard Cohen on how the teachings of a Zen master can manifest in unexpected and obtuse ways.

Tagged music, Poetry, roshi, teaching, ZenLeave a comment
Around the Rings of Saturn
All About Love

Around the Rings of Saturn

August 19, 2021August 17, 2021 Vanessa Able

BY JAMES SNOW Falling in love with someone in a foreign city poses the question: is it the person or the place I’m really in love with?

Tagged Istanbul, love, music, relationship, romance, Travel, turkeyLeave a comment
Kathleen Dean Moore
Interview, Why I Write

Why I Write – A Conversation with Kathleen Dean Moore

May 4, 2021June 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Author and activist Kathleen Dean Moore on what inspires her, what drives her, and her struggle to write about hope.

Tagged activism, conversation, earth, ecology, environment, interview, music, philosophy, sound, WritingLeave a comment
Kathleen Dean Moore
Book Bits

Living Like Birds, Loving Like Birds

March 26, 2021March 24, 2021 Vanessa Able

With her book, Earth's Wild Music, Kathleen Dean Moore asks, what can we do in the midst of so much extinction? What is our moral imperative?

Tagged activism, birds, community, Extinction, love, music, nature, Resilience, sound4 Comments
Jundo Cohen
Book Bits

How to Dance? Lessons from a Zen Master

December 7, 2020December 7, 2020 Vanessa Able

Jundo Cohen paints a picture of the universe as an integrated and indivisible dance, in which certain elements temporarily swirl out then return to the whole.

Tagged dance, Dogen, Emptiness, music, Reality, rhythm, Unity, Zen1 Comment
Way-Seeking Mind

Yes, This

November 5, 2020November 4, 2020 Vanessa Able

BY APRIL NANCE I have a photograph of my childhood self taken by my Aunt Sandy. In the picture she has tamed my scraggly hair and combed it into a neat blonde bob.

Tagged childhood, family, imagine, music, peace1 Comment
Clifford Venho
Featured, Featured Poetry

Clifford Venho – Forest of the Unsung

July 5, 2020July 5, 2020 Vanessa Able

Clifford Venho's Forest of the Unsung, marks the magical transition in a rich and dark forest setting from night into a day that is like 'a book waiting to be read.' 

Tagged awareness, dawn, forest, music, night, transcendence, transitionLeave a comment
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- BOOK BITS -

  • Orhan Pamuk
    Orhan Pamuk on Writing By Hand
    Orhan Pamuk's hand-writing habit hasn't budged, despite the conventions of our time.
  • Pema Chodron
    How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
    Pema Chödrön on what the Tibetan approach to living and dying can teach us about liberation in the present moment.
  • Barbara Brown Taylor
    The Path that Goes Nowhere – Barbara Brown Taylor on the Practice of Labyrinth Walking
    Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on her own experience of Labyrinth-walking and the significance of the path without a destination.
  • David Hinton
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    David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.
  • Virginia Woolf
    ‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill
    Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.


- POETRY-

  • Susan Coultrap-McQuin – Sunday Morning at the Cabin Up North
    Poet Susan Coultrap-McQuin shows us nature's sacredness with her poem "Sunday Morning at the Cabin Up North".
  • Ronán P. Berry – On The Mountain of Forth
    "On The Mountain of Forth" is Irish poet Ronán P. Berry's anthem of the natural and wild world and what could even be considered enlightenment.
  • Regina Dilgen – Meditation on Thomas Merton’s Hermitage
    Regina Dilgen's exquisite "Meditation on Thomas Merton's Hermitage" imagines American monastic Thomas Merton worn by grief and inspired to write.
  • Orhan Pamuk
    Orhan Pamuk on Writing By Hand
    Orhan Pamuk's hand-writing habit hasn't budged, despite the conventions of our time.
  • Mike Christie – Knock Knock Knock
    A narrative of a woodpecker at work on a tree expands to the oneness of all things in Mike Christie's "Knock Knock Knock".
 

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