Never Stop Playing

Creativity and play go hand in hand. Cultivating both of these natural instincts later in life is key to wellbeing.

2021 March/April

Poetry by Julia Cameron

“I believe that spirituality and creativity are intertwined. I live alone, atop a mountain in Santa Fe. My companion is a tiny white dog that I walk daily along the trails near my …

2021 January/February

Re/VIEW: Nikki Giovanni

“Giovanni brings a voice of discernment and solidity to our disquiet times. She sees the pandemic as carving out a spiritual space within us.”

2021 January/February

Making the Mind Leap

Searching for the heart of haiku through Allan Ginsberg and Basho.

2021 January/February

Winter Homes

“There is nothing as warm and wonderful as winter. Good books. A friendly dog. Homemade soup. How could I not love the idea of the coming season?”

Write a Poem to Heal From Pain

Uncover the power of writing poetry as a way to discover the heart of your pain, and to heal from it in this excerpt from Jacqueline Suskin's Every Day is a Poem: Find Clarity, Feel Relief, and See Beauty in Every Moment.

2020 November/December

Celebrate Whatever Life Brings: The Art of Seeing Each Day as a Poem

An interview with Jaqueline Suskin, author, poet, and healer.

2020 November/December

The Garland

I would like to be laid to rest in a big tomb topped by a stone figure of an angel, who appears to have landed there in order to sob forevermore, her face buried in her bent arm, …

2020 November/December

re/VIEW: Barbara Kingsolver

“I find comfort in my work, because when I walk into my office and close the door, I completely leave my own life. In some ways I’m shouldering the human condition, which is a lot of weight there, but when I’m writing, when it’s going well, I have completely forgotten myself.”

Book Talk

The Way of Gratitude: A Minister’s View on Connection

The Way of Gratitude author and prominent Unitarian Universalist minister Galen Guengerich dives deep on faith, belonging, morality, and, of course, gratitude.

2020 September/October

Poetry: Steps

pausing in that moment of light between the steps of now and imagination swimming in the heartbeat of her words I hear the melody of another life…

2020 July/August

A Light Store in the Bowery

“Some love is like a light store / you slip inside only to escape”