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Tag: Universe

Featured Poetry

Nathan Hassall – Perhaps it is Grief

May 26, 2024May 23, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Trancelike, Nathan Hassall's "Perhaps it is Grief" examines death and loss, reveals the interplay between love and endings.

Tagged ending, existence, grief, loss, love, Poem, poet, Poetry, time, UniverseLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Mike Christie – Knock Knock Knock

March 5, 2023March 2, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

A narrative of a woodpecker at work on a tree expands to the oneness of all things in Mike Christie's "Knock Knock Knock".

Tagged community, connection, Interconnectedness, nature, oneness, Poem, poet, Poetry, Unity, UniverseLeave a 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
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
Rebecca Elson
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Rebecca Elson – Antidotes to Fear of Death

December 16, 2020December 16, 2020 Vanessa Able

Rebecca Elson was an astronomer whose poetry expressed the wonder she felt for her own existence and for the universe she had spent her life studying.

Tagged Astronomer, awe, form, infinity, Poetry, scale, Universe, whole, wonder7 Comments
Ibn Arabi
Book Bits

Eighteen Thousand Universes Through Eighteen Thousand Eyes

July 6, 2020November 23, 2022 Vanessa Able

Ibn Arabi was a 13th century mystic, poet and philosopher in the Islamic tradition. He lived between Spain and North Africa and produced a prodigious and varied output during his lifetime.

Tagged Dogen, gnosticism, Ibn Arabi, Islam, manifestation, mysticism, perfection, philosophy, rational thought, selfhood, Sufi, Universe, ZhuangziLeave a comment
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Book Bits

Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Cosmic Perspective

December 23, 2019December 28, 2019 Vanessa Able

We marvel at our intelligence, but what we often miss is the miracle of our own existence and our interconnectedness with everything else in the Cosmos.

Tagged Air, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Cosmic Perspective, Cosmos, Elements, Interconnectedness, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Universe, Water1 Comment

TOP POSTS

  • Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
    Joseph Fasano - Instructions for Having a Soul
  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
    Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
  • Nathan Hassall - Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one
    Nathan Hassall - Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one
  • Pablo Neruda - The Sea
    Pablo Neruda - The Sea
  • Billy Collins - The Dead
    Billy Collins - The Dead

- BOOK BITS -

  • Don’t Waste Suffering: Ramiro López Larroy on Opening the Doors of Liberation
    How can we use the things that give us difficulty in our lives to learn and grow, rather than avoiding them, or trying to push them away?
  • 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.


- POETRY-

  • Nathan Hassall – Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one
    Poet Nathan Hassall's "Write a simple poem, my wife said, so I wrote a short one" transcends the small confines of its verbiage into the enormity of universal divinity.
  • A Year of Kō: 17th Sekki
    17th Sekki poems by BOB RAMA, COLEMAN DAVIS and SHAOMEI YU
  • Shaomei Yu – The Closed Door
    Chinese-American poet Shaomei Yu reflects on loss and transition with Zen-like sparseness in her poem "The Closed Door".
  • Claudia Kessel – Samsara
    In her epic "Samsara", poet Claudia Kessel leans the ancient tenants of Buddhism against the gritty reality of the 21st Century.
  • A Year of Kō: 16th Sekki
    16th Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, MADISON WILLIAMS and SHAOMEI YU
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