Category: Art, Articles, and Book Reviews

This selection is from Saul Williams’ poem, said the Shotgun to the head. Pocket Books, NY, New York. 2003.  You can discover more about Williams on his web site:  http://saulwilliams.com/. While you’re there, listen to NOISEY: END YOUR WILLFUL DISREGARD WITH SAUL WILLIAMS’ NEW VIDEO FOR “DOWN FOR SOME IGNORANCE  to be free of the …

Above: Ondine’s Gloves.        I met Aline Hunziker in Oaxaca, in 2013. Laurie Thompson, close friend, risk-taking photographer, and yoga instructor/healer, told me about Aline’s art.  She said she admired Aline’s vision and her passion for working with children. “Ondine’s Gloves” was the first of Aline’s creations that I saw, hanging in Txalaparta …

It was in reading the book The New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Living that I discovered Wayne Teasdale. I have encountered this mysterious and seductive monastic voice in my readings of other monks, men and women, contemplatives and mystics. Years ago, I recognized this voice when reading Howard Thurman’s, Meditations of the Heart. …

In this culture, the phrase ‘black woman’ is not synonymous with ‘tender’ or ‘gentle.’ It’s as if those words couldn’t possibly speak to the reality of black females. ~ bell hooks, writer, author, feminist and Buddhist