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Tag: passion

Ray Bradbury
Book Bits

Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing

June 20, 2025June 18, 2025 Vanessa Able

Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice

Tagged Advice, craft, creativity, hunger, Inspiration, love, Muse, observation, passion, stories, Wisdom, Writing2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Ingrid M. Calderón – come to me

February 2, 2025January 30, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Los Angeles poet Ingrid M. Calderón breathes a little fire into the cold hours of February with her passionate "come to me".

Tagged desire, love, need, passion, Poem, poet, Poetry, profane, romance, sacred, sacredness, wantLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Laura McDermott Matheric – Flame and Draft

March 10, 2024March 6, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

The sultry lines of Laura McDermott Matheric's poem "Flame and Draft" burn and flicker with devotion and passion.

Tagged Fire, flames, intimacy, love, passion, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer1 Comment
J.A. Baker
Book Bits

To Share Fear is the Greatest Bond of All: J.A. Baker’s Loving Portrait of the Peregrine

June 11, 2021June 12, 2021 Vanessa Able

Sometimes described as England's greatest cult book, The Peregrine is a beautiful, lyrical expression of one man's fascination with this hunting bird that he came to know intimately on a daily basis for over a decade.

Tagged conservation, Engagement, Fear, hunting, intimacy, love, nature writing, passion, peregrineLeave a comment
Mary Oliver
Book Bits

The Poem Is a Place in Which to Feel: Mary Oliver’s Tribute to Walt Whitman

May 28, 2021May 24, 2021 Vanessa Able

In this stirring tribute to her shadow-companion and first poetic love Walt Whitman, poet Mary Oliver describes the experience of awakening to poetry as a door to the temple, a place 'in which to feel'.

Tagged completeness, curiosity, feeling, Inspiration, passion, Poetry, temple, tributeLeave a comment
Natalia Ginzburg
Book Bits

Their Love of Life Should Never Weaken

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Vanessa Able

Pursuing our vocations and allowing our children the space to develop their own, are, according to Natalia Ginzburg, paramount in raising healthy children and developing healthy relationships with them as they grow.

Tagged Children, education, love of life, passion, Silence, Virtue, vocation2 Comments
Gin and Coconut Curry
All About Love

Gin and Coconut Curry

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 Vanessa Able

BY CHAPIN CIMINO What stays with us over the decades: Navigating the grey mists of love and affection by the quirky light of a college friendship.

Tagged desire, friendship, love, passion, relationship5 Comments
A Terrible Assistant Manager
All About Love

A Terrible Assistant Manager

November 10, 2020November 10, 2020 Vanessa Able

BY ELAINA EROLA A new assistant manager at RadioShack discovers that unbridled passion and a work promotion don't fit well together.

Tagged desire, love, passion, relationship2 Comments

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  • Jonathan Jones - man in the rain
    Jonathan Jones - man in the rain
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    Dana Gioia - Summer Storm

- 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-

  • Jonathan Jones – man in the rain
    It's not without harshness and brutal honesty that poet Jonathan Jones lays out all the discomforts of reality in his poem "man in the rain".
  • A Year of Kō: 12th Sekki
    12th Sekki poems by JOYCE RITCHIE, ELLIOT DIAMOND and COLEMAN DAVIS
  • Nathan Bakken – How to Be a Theologian
    Poet and theologian Nathan Bakken writes a three-part discourse on working in faith with his poem "How to Be a Theologian".
  • Richard Pettigrew – Drunken Flora
    Surfer-poet of Hawaii, Richard Pettigrew, once again swings by The Dewdrop, this time with a botanical tragedy "Drunken Flora".
  • Constance Clark – This Heat Sculpts a Spell
    Allow the summer heat of Constance Clark's "This Heat Sculpts a Spell" soak into you, as her poem unfolds its petals as an ode to connection.
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