[Video] Susan Piver Discusses Meditation and Writing
Creative Expression, Mind-BodyIf someone were able to take a snapshot of your mind right now, what would it look like? If…
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Creative Expression, Social EngagementBy Katharine Kaufman // At Pella Crossing there are extra police cars and rangers. There are dogs and horses,…
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Creative ExpressionAlbert Flynn DeSilver is a well known poet, memoirist, novelist, and one of the foremost teachers of writing as…
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Creative Expression, Mind-BodyBy Albert Flynn DeSilver // Here’s a funny question: What is reading? I mean really. The act of looking…
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Creative ExpressionBy Richard Rudis // Let’s imagine it’s approximately 2,600 years ago and you’re sitting by the bank of the…
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Creative Expression, Social EngagementJimmy Santiago Baca is an award-winning American poet and writer of Chicano descent, and this summer he'll be coming…
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Creative ExpressionBy Katharine Kaufman // Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not…
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Creative ExpressionBy Katharine Kaufman // It was Kobun Chino’s birthday a few days ago. If he was still alive Fran…
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Creative Expression, Life at SMCPhoto: © 2016 Richard A. Swaback Spread-your-wings, oh beautiful Jaybird! Placing seed outside…
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Creative ExpressionBy Katharine Kaufman By clearly seeing the extremes of experience, you learn to scout the middle way. ~Judith Lief…
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Creative ExpressionBy Katharine Kaufman ~~~ Yesterday morning while picking at something on my shirt, fingers around my empty teacup loosened.…
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Creative Expression, Life at SMC, NatureHello world, I wrote this poem last fall as a rumination on death and life, impermanence and transition. Now…
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