Everyone is on a journey to heal from past traumas and recover to live their best lives. During this time of COVID, increased isolation, less human connections and touch, resiliency may be challenged and some may solve their anxieties with alcohol, drugs, or prescription drugs causing dramatic increases in mental health needs, deadly traffic incidents, … Continue reading
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Dreaming with Kingsley at Larapinta by Ron Ackers
Old Walter, Old Tutuma, and others, Irregular rhythm makers, Singing to the hoodoos, Clapping hands and tamping feet. A dry and desert-like skein Beneath the unmeasurable black portal Awaiting the stars, and rain, and lightning of night. “Is this red our blood?” I asked. Their voices hummed rhythmically, susurrous; Ancient sound, a sound like no … Continue reading
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Can Art Improve Hospitals?
By special contributor, Risa Jefferson It’s no secret that art has a strong hold on our emotions. Historically, great paintings and music have been known to move audiences to wonder — whether it’s a Picasso piece, or ancient artifacts from the Sicilian Seas. No matter how small or abstract, art can leave audiences with … Continue reading
Logan Circle Paint Jam
By Matt Higgins, contributor, Washington, D.C. The Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, DC received some new color this week. What started as a small project to paint a couple of new pieces organically grew into a local, national, and international paint jam. The building located at 1416 P Street NW, owned by Jim Abdo, an … Continue reading
Love: A Soul Journey with Poet Katie Aliferis
Katie Aliferis is a soulful poet. Her words are brief and carefully placed. She removes any shade of protection to reveal the raw human spirit. This collection is her journey on love – a journey of discovery, pain, darkness, and ultimately, like an alchemist, transforming all pain into a golden light in her soul. Aliferis … Continue reading
Tree on Renewal Ridge by Robert E. Thomason
Winter is retreating. Spring is approaching. Brush off the dead branches and see the naked essence of the spirit and the resilience in life. Tree on Renewal Ridge Years ago this old tree snapped. Its dead trunk lies near roots. But the living tree never gave up. And now it grows new shoots. By Robert … Continue reading
Mini-Epic Poetry: Agency and Free-Will by Nicole Coonradt
Special mini-epic poetry feature by Nicole Coonradt. I teach Great Books at a small liberal arts college. In the first of a two-course sequence, students read texts from the Ancient to Medieval periods, beginning with Homer and concluding with Dante. Those questions regarding human agency and divinity continue to inform our understanding of literature, but … Continue reading
5th Greek Dinner Around the World
Join to the world’s largest dinner party celebrating the Greek people, culture and influences that have shaped our world on January 15th, 2018. This year friends in Abu Dhabi are joining us. Friends around the world who are chefs, authors, business leaders, award winning olive oil companies, artists, software engineers, scientists, and diplomats join to … Continue reading
Explosive Growth 10x by Cliff Lerner
Brilliantly crafted Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing to 100 Million Users and Losing $78 Million by Cliff Lerner, founder and CEO of SNAP Interactive, Inc., is essential reading for every entrepreneur and leader seeking innovative solutions for their industry. Lerner’s insights and experiences are as though he mastered the art of archery … Continue reading
Meet John Dough, Superhero by Lucy Bell W. Jarka-Sellers
Lucy Bell W. Jarka-Sellers brilliantly introduces her politically savvy and witty Meet John Dough, Super Hero, A Political Fantasy novelette during a year of unrecognizable political drama in the United States. Everyone is searching for a hero. A wish for a hero to miraculously appear and transform a tumultuous year exposing deep racism, intolerance, elitism, … Continue reading
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