Blessed Solstice!
Oh, pleasurable blessings full of ease, to ALL this Solstice, and always.
I was reminded of this song today, and it is
perfect:
"This is my home, this is my only home
This is the only
sacred ground that...
The Gift and the Payment
It is a question that echoes in all worlds—from realms of the spirit to the material needs and exchanges of our everyday life: We are born to give and to serve, yet nothing can...
Excerpt from That Old Tuscan Magic by Linda Lappin
This essay appears in our Autumn 2013 Print Issue 23. Also featured in this issue is a short story by Robert Kostuck, poetry by Jane Hirshfield, Emily Vogel, Linda Radice, and more!
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Uplifting Teachers
Today I initiated one of my students as a teacher and healer within the People Israel. It is an ancient rite of initiation, as old as the Hebrew People are old, going all the...
Writing and Living Toward Truth: Closing Words
The following words I delivered March 19, 2010 at the close of the 5th Annual Yoga As Muse for Authentic Writing & Creativity Retreat held at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, NM....
Excerpt from Why We Isolate by Choice by Grace de Rond
The following essay appears in our Autumn/Winter 2020 issue.
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Go Into a Wilderness
Angelus Silesius was a German mystic. I believe I discovered him at around the same time that I was rereading Walt Whitman, and I became intrigued by the similarity in their thought. Silesius said...
Emily & Isabel; Literary Heroines in Dreams
Many women writers I know, and not just those of my generation, still struggle with giving themselves permission to write, which is tantamount to permission to believe in themselves. It’s true those of us...
Episode 23: Interview with Melissa Studdard and Donna Baier-Stein
Guest host R Jeffreys, of The Write Step, interviews Tiferet editor and blogtalk host Melissa Studdard and Tiferet publisher and producer Donna Baier Stein. Donna Baier Stein explains why she founded the magazine and...
The divine mystery …
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY:
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day....