This is both an account of events as well as a story. It is a story of humans reaching out to the world of spirits for help for the Earth and beings of the Earth. This is a story of human and spirit compassion, of intense need and help ultimately received. It is a...
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means-what I want and what I fear. -JOAN DIDION Me too. - NANCY ARONIE Why in the world do you write? And why are you writing a memoir in particular? I'll tell you why I...
I have always loved to travel. When I think back to some of the travels of my youth, I can see that long before my interest in fermentation began in earnest, traveling primed me to think about fermentation in ways that I likely would not have otherwise. As a...
A new translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet has been released in a world in which his voice and vision feel as resonant as ever before. In ten letters to a young person in 1903, Rilke touched on the enduring dramas of creating our lives —...
This interview originally appeared: https://bowerypoetry.podbean.com/Three poems by Rumi translated by Haleh Liza GaforiLet’s love each other, let’s cherish each other, my friend, before we lose each other. You’ll long for me when I’m gone. You’ll make a truce with...
Crete, Greece’s largest and southernmost island, sits in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. It is halfway between Europe and Africa, the Iberian Peninsula and the Middle East. It has been occupied since Neolithic Times and, due to its unique and sensitive...
Blessed are those whose bellies are free – swelling with every breath and posturing for no one; they shall know ease in their own skin and sense the truth of things, both of which shall remain hidden to those who perform and posture and shrink themselves to please...
Restoring land without restoring relationship is an empty exercise. It is relationship that will endure and relationship that will sustain the restored land. –Robin Wall Kimmerer What saddens me is that with each passing year, we seem to be less able to dance...
Every life is a work of fiction. That’s what I tell my memoir students. People come to me wanting to tell their life story, the narrative that sums them up, the myth that captures their essence. They expect to find this story hiding inside them like one of...
Deborah Koff-Chapin has been developing Touch Drawing since it came to her in an inspired moment in 1974. She teaches the process internationally. Deborah is creator of SoulCards 1 & 2, Portals of Presence, and SoulTouch Coloring Journals. She is the author...