Tag: books

Dusting yourself off after “collapsing in the Face of Reality”

.Reading time 7 minutes.

“The process and the result are very close to each other. A poem can lift me for a day, sometimes two, three if I think its good. It’s often a very personal experience, because generally, there is no one to tell. Hopefully, the reader experiences an atom of what I am experiencing.” – Raymond King Shurtz

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Sherman Alexie on book banning

.Reading time 1 minute.

. . . the one thing i always sniffed out instantly was condescension, and as soon as an adult condescended to me I shut them out completely. And actually, I think most literature designed for young people is condescending and when they run into a book that is not, a book that is realistic, that deals with their emotions and their lives in a respectful, honest, often bloody and painful way uh… you know they’re invigorated, they’re excited. I mean they go crazy!

. . . I fully support [the right of parents] to decide what their children read, but they don’t get to decide what other children read, they don’t get to decide what a community reads . . .

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bibliography (so far) for my workshop – Writing the Energetic Body

.Reading time 2 minutes.

Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing Luna Yoga : Vital Fertility and SexualityLuna Yoga : Vital Fertility and Sexuality The Sevenfold Journey: Reclaiming Mind, Body and Spirit Through the ChakrasThe Sevenfold Journey: Reclaiming Mind, Body and Spirit Through the Chakras Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within (Shambhala Library) […]

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