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Featured Poetry

Jesse Knutson – offering no return

May 25, 2025May 23, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

In "offering no return", poet Jesse Knutson likens the interior of ourselves to the epic vastness of the universe.

Tagged expansion, internal, outer space, Poem, poet, Poetry, secrets, space, things unsaid, thought, unsaid, vastness1 Comment
Way-Seeking Mind

Ode to the Radio Telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Before its Collapse

December 7, 2021December 7, 2021 Ellis Elliott

BY MARY DINGEE FILLMORE You listen all the time to the whispers of faraway stars’ radio signals. They barely flutter, but you’re more sensitive than any other telescope in the world.

Tagged astronomy, beauty, listening, observation, space, Stars, Universe5 Comments
Anais Nin
Book Bits

The Expression of a Better World – Anaïs Nin on Transience and the Painful, Familiar Beauty of Music

November 20, 2021November 19, 2021 Vanessa Able

Anaïs Nin on music, mortality, and what it is to glimpse a joyful vision of a land from which we came and which we have forgotten.

Tagged Death, exile, impermanence, intervals, music, nostalgia, notes, sorrow, space, transience2 Comments
Pippa Goldschmidt
Book Bits

Astronomer Pippa Goldschmidt on Seeing Far and Seeing Up Close

August 27, 2021August 27, 2021 Vanessa Able

Astronomer Pippa Goldschmidt on working in the starry deserts of Chile during a time when new technologies meant a more remote relationship to the act of stargazing.

Tagged alienation, astronomy, connection, relation, remoteness, scale, space, Stars, UniverseLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Cynthia Ruse – The In-Between

March 23, 2021March 22, 2021 Vanessa Able

Cynthia Ruse's The In-Between reflects the parallel and layered elements of life, where light and darkness are blurred and the narrative of a painting becomes experience in itself.

Tagged art, Darkness, Experience, layer, Light, painting, space2 Comments
Diane Ackerman
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Diane Ackerman – We Are Listening

January 27, 2021January 27, 2021 Vanessa Able

'We Are Listening' is steeped in a sense of wonder at the scale of the universe, coupled with a tenderness towards the fragility of life.

Tagged Cosmos, eternity, existence, fragility, humanity, listening, Loneliness, Poetry, space, timeLeave a comment
Aldous Huxley
Book Bits

Aldous Huxley and Beauty

July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 Vanessa Able

Huxley on the beatific vision of divine beauty that resides in Pure Interval and harmonious relationship, and experiencing the divine through architecture, music, sacred geometries and human relationships.

Tagged beauty, Emptiness, God, harmony, intervals, nothingness, order, relationship, space, ugliness, vision1 Comment

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Nietzsche on Why It Is Also Important to Forget
    Nietzsche on Why It Is Also Important to Forget
  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
  • Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
    Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
  • Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
    Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
  • Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - For When We Greet Each Other
    Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer - For When We Greet Each Other
  • Mary Oliver - To Begin With, the Sweetgrass
    Mary Oliver - To Begin With, the Sweetgrass

- 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: 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
  • Francis Weeks – Taho Buddha
    "Taho Buddha" by poet Francis Weeks is a minimalist poem which explores a pivotal moment in Nichiren Buddhism.

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