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Tag: touch

All About Love

About Love

April 15, 2026April 15, 2026 Vanessa Able

How the countless tiny impressions of family life shape the evolution of love, touch, and communication. BY RANDI MILLER

Tagged Affection, Care, childhood, Communication, Emotional health, family, Generational cycles, Genetics, Habits, Health and wellness, Identity, legacy, love, memories, motherhood, parenting, Routines, Siblings, touch3 Comments
Featured Poetry

Leslie Young – Outside

July 27, 2025July 26, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

In Leslie Young's "Outside", the rush and chaos of the outside world is tempered by the intimacy and warmth of simple touch.

Tagged Anxiety, attention, chaos, holiness, human connection, intimacy, Mindfulness and Intimacy, outside, Poem, poet, Poetry, touchLeave a comment
Ellen Bass
Poetry

Ellen Bass – If You Knew

May 21, 2024May 20, 2024 Vanessa Able

What if you knew you'd be the last to touch someone? Ellen Bass draws us in to the brief moments of contact that fill our day and urges us to consider the fleeting nature of every life we meet.

Tagged Compassion, contact, Death, impermanence, Kindness, Poetry, relationship, touch, transienceLeave a comment
Kurt Cole Eidsvig
Featured

Kurt Cole Eidsvig – Seasonal

April 20, 2020March 5, 2024 Vanessa Able

Kurt Cole Eidsvig's poem Seasonal is an ode to the goddess Persephone whose twin connections to both spring and death provide the framework for a personal connection to distance, love, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tagged Coronavirus, COVID-19, Death, isolation, Kurt Cole Eidsvig, Persephone, Seasonal, spring, touch1 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-

  • 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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