Photograph by Casey Horner Personal musings and an excerpt from Mark Nepo’s latest book guide us through darkness and life’s messiness — to emerge with meaning and connection — Since books arrive like children, after months of labor, the timing of their arrival is well … [Read more...] about Living What Matters: Reflections, Prose and 52 Prompts for Self-Inquiry
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The Endless Search: One Man’s Journey To Life Expression
Photograph by Nagy Arnold How we can inhabit a lifelong practice of listening, expressing and creating to animate our souls ______ Such is my poetry: ironwork-poetry... It is not a poetry thought out bit by bit. It is not a beautiful produce, not a perfect fruit. It is … [Read more...] about The Endless Search: One Man’s Journey To Life Expression
Entrainments of Heart: The Stitch Work of Community
An exploration of community and the connections that nurtures our souls across beliefs, cultures, borders and religions. There is one soul and many tongues, one spirit and various sounds; every country has its own speech, but the subjects of speech are common to … [Read more...] about Entrainments of Heart: The Stitch Work of Community
Letting Everything In and Through | Explorations of the Human Experience
A poetic exploration of the human experience in all of its guts and glory — Let me keep surrendering myself until I am utterly transparent. —Psalm 19 The ultimate value of staying open is that we’re scoured clean of all that might burden us: memories, wounds, assumptions, and … [Read more...] about Letting Everything In and Through | Explorations of the Human Experience
Being Human: The Poetry of Life
A poet explores 'the way under the way' — the place of true meaning and shared humanity ______________________________ [Want to hear this piece read by the author? Click here for the audiocast] Over the years, I’ve learned that moments of deep living let us hear a deeper music … [Read more...] about Being Human: The Poetry of Life
