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Tag: transformation

Featured Poetry

Matt Pasca – Traitor Psalm

January 25, 2026January 24, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Long Island poet Matt Pasca gives it all up and at the same time transforms us in his engaging poem "Traitor Psalm".

Tagged birds, Children, parenthood, past, Poem, poet, Poetry, present, time, transformation, WritingLeave a comment
Oren Jay Sofer
Book Bits

‘The Only Way To Be Free’ – Oren Jay Sofer on Why Mindfulness Is More Than Just Paying Attention

November 29, 2023December 20, 2023 Vanessa Able

How continuous awareness can be a catalyst for radical personal freedom and transformation.

Tagged awareness, Buddha, Buddhism, concentration, Freedom, Meditation, mindfulness, self awareness, transformation1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Ellen Girardeau Kempler – Jet Lag

October 15, 2023October 13, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Ellen Girarardeau Kempler's "Jet Lag" places us in the rugged Arizona desert and takes us back into the furthest expanses of geologic time.

Tagged change, earth, geology, history, Poem, poet, Poetry, time, transformation, TravelLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Ricardo Gonzalez-Rothi – Faraway, near Nordfjordeid

May 14, 2023May 12, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Redolent with the folklore of the cold north, Cuban-American poet Ricardo Gonzalez-Rothi offers a magical poem, "Faraway, near Nordfjordeid".

Tagged change, fantasy, folklore, Light, myth, mythology, Norway, Poem, poet, Poetry, Scandinavia, solstice, transformationLeave a comment
Book Bits

The Sacred Pulse of Night and Day

November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 Vanessa Able

Deborah Eden Tull explores the experience of darkness and how it can be a transformative and expansive human experience.

Tagged Buddhism, change, contemplation, dark, Darkness, Dreams, Emptiness, liminal space, nature, night, transformationLeave a comment
Christian Dillo
Interview, Why I Write

Why I Write: Christian Dillo

September 23, 2022September 23, 2022 Vanessa Able

Christian Dillo on a contemporary Zen approach to awakening and what meaningful transformation actually looks like.

Tagged aliveness, Awakening, Buddhism, effort, psychotherapy, Qigong, right effort, Suffering, Taoism, transformation, western philosophy, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

R. B. Simon – Shorn

April 10, 2022April 22, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet R. B. Simon's "Shorn" is a concise self-reflective piece, in which the narrator desires to be unburdened and liberated of decades' worth of burdens.

Tagged burdens, Freedom, liberation, Poem, poet, Poetry, self-awareness, self-reflection, transformation, unburdeningLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Marsha Warren Mittman – No Name

October 17, 2021October 13, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

With her poem No Name, Marsha Warren Mittman details the transition from urban to rural living, and coming to embrace and become one with new experiences.

Tagged acceptance, connection, emergence, Identity, Interconnectedness, Meditation, nature, oneness, Poem, Poetry, self-acceptance, transformation6 Comments
Featured Poetry

Susan Coultrap-McQuin – Seeking Stars

September 12, 2021September 19, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

"Seeking Stars" by Susan Coultrap-McQuin is a meditation on growing older and inhabiting the autumnal season of our lives.

Tagged aging, animals, change, connection, Growing old, growth, journey, Poem, Poetry, transformation1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Brian Yapko – My Hunger for You

August 29, 2021August 27, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

With his poem My Hunger for You, Brian Yapko presents a desperate and generally unsuccessful search for God.

Tagged Advice, divine, failure, God, humility, nature, Poem, Poetry, searching, transformationLeave a comment

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