April is National Poetry Month, and April 26 is Poem In Your Pocket Day. The idea is to carry a copy of your favorite poem in your pocket to share with others in a sort of awareness, appreciation, promotion exercise. There are two books available to help you along: Poem in your Pocket for Young […]
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Wisdom Films / Consciousness-Enhancing Media
Have you ever heard of Consciouness-Enhancing Media or inner-tainment? It involves using music and media as a kind of medicine. Award-winning media composer/producer Gary Malkin’s inspiring short films at Wisdom Films are an example. They feature spoken wisdom from around the world combined with time-lapse cinematography and musical soundtracks – meditations to help slow us down after a […]
Freedom is Choice
Giving up freedom I hate losing stuff. I hate losing valuable time. I hate losing friends. I hate losing money. But most of all, I hate losing freedom. I would give up stuff, time, and money for freedom. I’d give up friends who threaten my freedom. Losing my freedom is unacceptable. Pure and simple. Then […]
Musica Universalis or Music of the Spheres
“Musica Universalis,” or Music of the Spheres. What a wonderful ancient philosophical concept. Pythagoras theorized that the Sun, Moon, and planets produce their own unique hums as they move through the universe, and, although physically imperceptible to our ears, this planetary harmony affects the quality of our lives on earth. Modern science probably scoffs at this idea, but […]
Manuscript Makeover Mode
I’m in the final manuscript makeover mode, which means my blog has been relegated to second status for awhile. Makeovers and blogs are hungry beasts and quite jealous and suspicious of each other. When they don’t get enough attention (and regular feeding), they go on strike. Immediately. No use in reasoning with them or begging for […]
Space of Stillness / Point of Dynamic Rest
Eckhart Tolle says, “Being is finding within yourself that space of stillness that is always there, where you can be conscious without thinking.” I love it when I find myself in this “space of stillness,” this “point of dynamic rest,” but it doesn’t happen nearly enough. When I look at the small hill of daffodils that bloom […]
