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Tag: transition

All About Love

Telomeres: A Strange Fate

June 19, 2025June 18, 2025 Vanessa Able

Love, loss and the biology of endings. BY DAVID WHITEHURST

Tagged cancer, dog, grief, illness, loss, love, memory, pet, telomeres, transitionLeave a comment
Micro Gallery

Katya Belena – Dawn Dusk

February 10, 2021February 11, 2021 Vanessa Able

Katya Belena's Micro Gallery exhibit Dawn Dusk is an invitation to stay in the changing moment of transition like a darkening or lightening sky.

Tagged change, dawn, dusk, moment, transition1 Comment
Holly Allen
Featured Poetry

Holly Allen – Michigan Green

September 27, 2020September 27, 2020 Vanessa Able

Holly Allen's poem Michigan Green recalls the summers spent in Michigan with her great-grandmother.

Tagged childhood, disillusion, learning, nature, transition, wonderLeave a comment
Jennifer Hollis
Featured, Featured Poetry

Jennifer Hollis – Baby Boy Hollis

July 26, 2020August 3, 2020 Vanessa Able

Jennifer Hollis' poem sits on the threshold of motherhood, at the moment of transition when the personal and intimately known is sent out into a world keen to lay claim to it with a designation.

Tagged childbirth, definition, language, motherhood, naming, transition1 Comment
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Book Bits

To Name and Describe, You Must First See

July 24, 2020July 24, 2020 Vanessa Able

Writer and botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's book Braiding Sweetgrass is a call to awakening to ecological consciousness and an awareness of our interconnectedness with nature.

Tagged change, consciousness, ecology, Extinction, language, loss, Native American, nature, science, transition1 Comment
Clifford Venho
Featured, Featured Poetry

Clifford Venho – Forest of the Unsung

July 5, 2020July 5, 2020 Vanessa Able

Clifford Venho's Forest of the Unsung, marks the magical transition in a rich and dark forest setting from night into a day that is like 'a book waiting to be read.' 

Tagged awareness, dawn, forest, music, night, transcendence, transitionLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Gary Snyder - For the Children
    Gary Snyder - For the Children
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • The Merlin (Surprised by Joy)
    The Merlin (Surprised by Joy)
  • Barry Casey - Wait Here
    Barry Casey - Wait Here
  • Issa - This Dewdrop World
    Issa - This Dewdrop World
  • Deneen Fendig and Duncan Trussell Talk About Active Dying
    Deneen Fendig and Duncan Trussell Talk About Active Dying
  • Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
    Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
  • Wendell Berry - Do Not Be Ashamed
    Wendell Berry - Do Not Be Ashamed
  • John O'Donohue on Soul Friendship
    John O'Donohue on Soul Friendship

- 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-

  • 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.
  • A Year of Kō: 3rd Sekki
    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.
  • Roderick Wilson – Practicing Resurrection
    New York poet Roderick Wilson wipes the snow from the threadbare conclusion of wintertime, on the cusp of transition.
 

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