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Micro Gallery

The Anatomy of Moments

June 26, 2025June 23, 2025 Vanessa Able

Hosho McCreesh's visual, lyrical, haiku-like psalms are strikingly beautiful, and always striving for less.

Tagged dark, Haiku, humanity, landscape, loss, love, meaning, photography, Poetry, psalms, struggleLeave 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
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Micro Gallery

George Stein – Specter

December 28, 2020December 29, 2020 Vanessa Able

George Stein's Micro Gallery show Specter is a journey through 2020 from the perspective of a New Yorker watching the transitions of his city from the street.

Tagged COVID, lockdown, New York City, pandemic, photography, street scenesLeave a comment
Putting my thoughts away for the night is a messy process
Micro Gallery

Martha Nance – Waterwords

December 15, 2020December 16, 2020 Vanessa Able

Martha Nance's Waterwords is a series of abstract images of water and light taken outside her office in Minneapolis.

Tagged artwork, pattern, photography, WaterLeave a comment
Books

Smelling the Flowers in Dogen’s Gardens – Marcia Lieberman’s ‘Clean Slate’

July 25, 2020July 25, 2020 Vanessa Able

Photographer Marcia Lieberman's new book, Clean Slate, is a meditation on nature and temple gardens made in the footsteps of 13th century Japanese Zen master Dogen. 

Tagged art, Dogen, flowers, gardens, hana kotoba, ikebana, nature, photography, PoetryLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • David Whyte - The Opening of Eyes
    David Whyte - The Opening of Eyes
  • Colleen Morton Busch - Tend
    Colleen Morton Busch - Tend
  • Walt Whitman - O Me! O Life!
    Walt Whitman - O Me! O Life!
  • William Stafford's Looking Across the River
    William Stafford's Looking Across the River
  • Mary Oliver - To Begin With, the Sweetgrass
    Mary Oliver - To Begin With, the Sweetgrass
  • Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
    Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes

- 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-

  • Colleen Morton Busch – Tend
    With her poem "Tend", Bay Area Zen poet Colleen Morton Busch offers a gift of wisdom, acceptance, and nourishment to readers.
  • A Year of Kō: 8th Sekki
    8th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, ELLIOT DIAMOND AND JOSEPH PALMER
  • Sarah Reichert – Divine Struggle
    Colorado poet Sarah Reichart shows how kinetic and arduous the search for faith can be with her poem "Divine Struggle".
  • 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

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