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Tag: ordinary

Tallu Schuyer Quinn
Book Bits

Normal Days – A Tribute to the Ordinary From the Far Edge of Life

May 3, 2022May 2, 2022 Vanessa Able

After a glioblastoma diagnosis, Tallu Schuyler Quinn wrote about what dying meant to her body, mind and heart in this series of moving essays.

Tagged awareness, Death, Dying, glioblastoma, Gratitude, normal, ordinary, perspectiveLeave 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
Amanda Smith-Hatch
Featured Poetry

Amanda Smith-Hatch – Redemption

December 6, 2020December 6, 2020 Vanessa Able

Amanda Smith-Hatch's Redemption is an attempt to capture the profundity hidden within a seemingly banal moment in time.

Tagged memory, moment, ordinary, perception, Reality, redemption1 Comment
Susan Murphy
Book Bits

The Great, Generous Laugh

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 Vanessa Able

Susan Murphy's book, The Red Thread, addresses the guts and gore of the flesh-and-blood humans who sustain spiritual practice in the midst of desire, mortality and heartbreak.

Tagged desire, flesh, games, humanity, Humor, laughter, lightness, ordinary, Practice, seriousness, Zen1 Comment
Joan Chittister
Book Bits

The Sacred is the Everyday – Joan Chittister

May 11, 2020May 11, 2020 Vanessa Able

Benedictine nun Joan Chittister sees spirituality not as something contained in sacred places or practices, but as something deeply integrated into our daily lives.

Tagged Christianity, church, daily life, everyday, here and now, ordinary, sacred, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Wisdom2 Comments
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- BOOK BITS -

  • Tallu Schuyer Quinn
    Normal Days – A Tribute to the Ordinary From the Far Edge of Life
    After a glioblastoma diagnosis, Tallu Schuyler Quinn wrote about what dying meant to her body, mind and heart in this series of moving essays.
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    In the Name of the Stranger – Pádraig Ó Tuama on the Language of The Troubles
    Poet and theologian Pádraig Ó Tuama reflects on the use of the word 'trouble' in Irish language, and its relationship to grief and mourning.
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    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
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    Giving Away More Than We Keep – Ayya Khema on Cultivating Generosity
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- POETRY-

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    Nicole Grace's "One Note" is a sensory exploration of contemplation, alive with natural and meditative imagery.
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    New Jersey poet Patrice Bavos offers a gracious praise poem of a spiritual place with her lovely "Sedona Prayer".
  • Eloise Klein Healy – Iris
    Eloise Klein Healy, former Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, has encapsulated so much in the two short stanzas of her poem "Iris".
  • Kurtis Ebeling – Snowmelt
    With the quietude of the rising sun and melting snow, Kurtis Ebeling's "Snowmelt" serves as an ode to springtime and a requiem to winter.
  • Mark Hammerschick – Permafrostedness Rising
    "Permafrostedness Rising" is a tragic poem written from the perspective of native arctic people, detailing a world altered by climate change.
 

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