Art Art was a gift sent to the bottom of a pit, a pit like Joseph’s. It was survival, it...
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Writer/artist/musician still teaching preschool in SF bay area, Max Reif is the author of TOWARD AN INTERIOR SUN, a book of stories published by The Mindful Word; a book of poetry called Journey from Here to HERE; and a CD of songs, "The Wake-Up Man," dedicated to his Spiritual Guide, Meher Baba. He has been writing for The Mindful Word for around 5 years.
A man answered a newspaper ad for a job as a delivery courier. He got the job, and his employer,...
It’s fairly common knowledge that approximately 40 percent of America’s potential food supply ends up in dumpsters. However, for the past...
These days, it seems there are more and more elaborate scams going on. My wife recently got a phone call...
[box style=”rounded”]Author’s Note: It may be partly the age I’ve arrived at, and partly my lifelong interest in literature, but...
This story appears in the book Toward an Interior Sun: Awakening by a Master, and the Difficult Journey toward Discipleship....
A Greeting for the Day Good morning, new day! Through the birds you relay news that makes me smile. I...
A literary surprise Recently, my wife Barbara—for whom I procure books—and I have found ourselves immersed in a spate of...
1. The times make the music as the music makes the times, and music makes us, as well. What are...
Stories from childhood are like myths and legends of one’s life. They can be told for their own sake, and...
Ten Reflections on Why We Write 1. A poet writes, a baker makes bread. Hungry mouths will eat the bread;...
In the summer of 1974 I worked for a month on a towboat, pushing barges up and down the Mississippi...
I I’m a baby boomer. When I studied literature in high school and went on to university, the “holy trinity”...
Fragile It doesn’t take very much to wash away all we know, obliterate every landmark. I went out to a...
This story appears in the book Toward an Interior Sun: Awakening by a Master, and the Difficult Journey toward Discipleship....
Is it possible to tinker with the present, the way an author can tinker with the past when writing a...
On my Facebook news feed a couple of months ago, I started seeing posts in which people I knew were...
This story appears in the book Toward an Interior Sun: Awakening by a Master, and the Difficult Journey toward Discipleship....
Odds are, reader, you’ve never had ECT, short for electroconvulsive treatment and colloquially known as shock treatment. If that’s so,...
Author’s Note: When I worked in my preschool’s Nap Room a few years back, before I became a Story Reader...
“Breeeaaaaakkkkkkk-faaaaaaast!!!” Mother’s sweet voice rang throughout the house, and in a little while, Fred and his entire family were seated...
Part I: The Defeat These paintings were done during a time of great inner turmoil. I had longed all my...
The Difference Between Happiness and Contentment “Happy?” I asked my girl friend long ago, my long-ago girl friend as she...
IRWIN AND THE AVATAR:A love story for the ages Irwin Luck [Meher Baba Archives, 400 pages] The year was 1959....
