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Tag: noticing

Rick Ruben
Book Bits

“Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity

February 25, 2026February 25, 2026 Vanessa Able

What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?

Tagged analysis, awareness, Buddhism, creativity, form, mindfulness, noticing, perception, Source, TaoismLeave a comment
Ross Gay
Poetry

Ross Gay – Sorrow is Not My Name

December 31, 2024January 1, 2025 Sam Shapiro

Ross Gay's ode to awakening to sweetness, written after Gwendolyn Brooks.

Tagged Awakening, beauty, delight, love, Mind, noticing, Poem, Poetry, sorrow, springLeave a comment
Alexandra Horowitz
Book Bits

What is Attention?

October 2, 2020October 2, 2020 Vanessa Able

Alexandra Horowitz asks, what does it really mean to pay attention? Is it beneficial? And how can we be better at it?

Tagged attention, awareness, consciousness, everyday, noticing, observation, walking2 Comments

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- 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-

  • 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
  • Deja Carr – We Held Hands in Prayers, Then I Forgot You
    Deja Carr, poet and musician, creates a altar to gratitude and mixed blessings with her "We Held Hands in Prayers, Then I Forgot You".
  • Constance Clark – Why I Stop & Stare
    Poet Constance Clark treats readers to springtime interconnectedness and abundance with her masterful "Why I Stop & Stare".
  • A Year of Kō: 5th Sekki
    5th Sekki poems by JOSEPH PALMER, SHERRY WEAVER SMITH and COLEMAN DAVIS

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