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Featured Poetry

Karen Luke Jackson – Noon Prayer at Salisbury Cathedral

May 19, 2024May 15, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

In Karen Luke Jackson's stunning "Prayer at Salisbury Cathedral", we are guided up stone, glass, and spire alongside prayers of parishioners.

Tagged cathedral, chant, chanting, Genesis, life, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, praying, sacred, sacredness, sound1 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
Intersection
Way-Seeking Mind

Intersection

December 17, 2020December 16, 2020 Vanessa Able

BY NATALIE MUCKER J-o-s. He wrote on the white board in purple marker, then spun to face us—a handful of seated strangers—in the small, neat room.

Tagged brain, magic, mantra, Meditation, sound1 Comment

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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-

  • A Year of Kō: 4th Sekki
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  • Lily Tobias – Fennel
    In her poem "Fennel", Michigan poet Lily Tobias awakens our senses in the quiet hush of morning, and takes us to the temple.
  • Roshi Joan Halifax and The Way of Haiku
    A collection of haiku offered by Roshi Joan Halifax.
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    3rd Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, LAILA BRAHMBHATT, WILLIAM KILGORE
  • Gary Keenan – Big Day
    Writing from the Colombian Andes, poet Gary Keenan's poem "Big Day" is a chaotic cacophony collapsing into the soft rosy amber of stillness.
 

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