POEMS BY REBECCA SHEA: Planted, The Purple Room
I filled my watering can with holy waterAnd used it to water my lawnSo the grass would finally be greenerOn the side that I was onI got a priest to bless the s...
Conscious Creativity
POEMS BY GEORGE PAYNE: Where the Gods Dwell, I Need my Used Bookstore and more
Where Deer Sleep My three-year-old sonasked me where deer sleep.So I took him there. Steppinginto a space that is not meantfor fathers and sons, we founda r...
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS: A New History of a Lost World [book review]
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE DINOSAURS: A New History of a Lost World Steve Brusatte Kids love dinosaurs, especially the Tyrannosaurus rex, or T. rex...
THE POWER OF THE MANTRA: A monk chooses spiritual power over temptation
For 13 years, a great monk prayed, meditated and fasted in the mountains in order to see more clearly into the nature of things. One morning, this wise man dec...
POEMS BY REBECCA SHEA: All the Places I Haven’t Found God, But My Flowers Did Not Grow
All the Places I Haven't Found God A lady at AA says she found God under a bridge Just below the freeway. I wait for hours, but He never comes. I met a c...
POEMS BY MATT BUONOCORE: Love Transfusion, One in Love, Swallowed in Surrender
Love Tranfusion Sometimes I live in the grey,unable to decide if everything’s alright.My mind knows what the past looks like,I can’t look back, I know insid...
THE GATHERING: Animals and humans pay homage to the Great Spirit
An eagle, a lion, a wolf, a deer and a bear sat around the campfire for their weekly respite from work. This week, their conversation focused on the foils of h...
A CHILDHOOD MEMORY: My brother never learned to jump
After spending all our money on Wacky Packs and Slurpees at the 7-Eleven, my brother Danny and I decide to take the shortcut home. We veer off from the sidewal...
JUST THE DANCE: Poems inspired by Alan Watts
What You Don't Get in Church It has nothing to do with the thoughts that bring results we want. Pulling at our seatbelts. A chronic feeling that sees. If yo...