literature

"Digital Detox with Rilke" by Adam Walker "Now, our ability to appreciate moments of quietude and contemplation must be strengthened. Right ...

Tonight, I started reading Nadia Anjuman's Smoke Drifts . Anjuman was a gifted Afghan poet who wrote under terrible persecution and confinem...

I'm at the stage of life when kitchen appliances excite me! I just got my first rice cooker. I'm using it to make not only rice but also egg...

"I used to tell my students: don't settle for happiness. It's just not good enough. Life has to be about something more than whether you fee...

Sometimes, you have to drink your iced coffee from a cute bear jar you got off Tiktok shop. This bear jar might be the one bright spot in yo...

"The word "devotion," as I am using it, need not refer to the embodiment of a specific religious form. Rather, it is the opening or the inte...

I can't get enough of spring. Dandelion fluff floats in the grass-sweetened air. I almost inhale it. I like the thought of the dandelion par...

Started reading Edith Södergran's Modern Woman , published by World Poetry Books The following poems are not from the collection, but they g...

"To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, ...