Benefit of a Doubt

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October 17, 2017

By Katharine Kaufman // At Pella Crossing there are extra police cars and rangers. There are dogs and horses,…

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Albert Flynn DeSilver on Writing as a Path to Awakening

August 30, 2017

Albert Flynn DeSilver is a well known poet, memoirist, novelist, and one of the foremost teachers of writing as…

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Reading As a Path to Awakening

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August 10, 2017

By Albert Flynn DeSilver // Here’s a funny question: What is reading? I mean really. The act of looking…

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Becoming

July 13, 2017

By Richard Rudis // Let’s imagine it’s approximately 2,600 years ago and you’re sitting by the bank of the…

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Engaged Mindfulness | A Poem from Jimmy Santiago Baca

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May 19, 2017

Jimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning American poet and writer of Chicano descent, and this summer he'll be coming…

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Follow

March 22, 2017

By Katharine Kaufman // Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not…

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Wisdom & Compassion

February 24, 2017

By Katharine Kaufman // It was Kobun Chino’s birthday a few days ago. If he was still alive Fran…

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Spread-your-wings, oh beautiful Jaybird!

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January 9, 2017

Photo: © 2016 Richard A. Swaback   Spread-your-wings, oh beautiful Jaybird!           Placing seed outside…

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November 22, 2016

By Katharine  Kaufman By clearly seeing the extremes of experience, you learn to scout the middle way. ~Judith Lief…

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this cup is already broken

October 12, 2016

By Katharine Kaufman ~~~ Yesterday morning while picking at something on my shirt, fingers around my empty teacup loosened.…

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Offering

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September 30, 2016

Hello world, I wrote this poem last fall as a rumination on death and life, impermanence and transition. Now…

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