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Johnathan Franzen’s deeply engaging novel Freedom is an exploration of the disappointments of adult life and of what depth may emerge, through complication and pain, when the glow and bloom of youthful certainty, hedonism and adventure burn away. Set inside the questions of this age, Franzen’s principle characters stare into the void of a [...] “…one of the most strange, most stubborn, most difficult, most backward, most stricken … persons I have ever met… I look into the mirror and there she is again. Waiting for my eyes to soften; my touch, to be tender, my life not to exile her life, my wiser self to instruct her in [...] I took a first step on the path towards undertaking Jukai today. Jukai is a ceremony in Zen Buddhist practice where you commit yourself to the sixteen precepts. The process is a not a short one, nor one that is anticipated as coming to an end. For the next six months I’ll be working through [...] art by Luke Brown The Dakini Speaks My friends, let’s grow up. Let’s stop pretending we don’t know the deal here. Or if we truly haven’t noticed, let’s wake up and notice. Look: Everything that can be lost, will be lost. It’s simple – how could we have missed it for so long? Let’s [...] "Expansion" – Paige Bradley
Sculpter Paige Bradley describes the process of making this beautiful piece as one of letting go: “I took a perfectly good wax sculpture – a piece I had sculpted with precision over several months – an image of a woman meditating in the lotus position, [...] I stumbled upon audio of singer Lhasa De Sela explaining the story behind her song ‘Soon this space will be too small’. It was so perfect. So beautiful. It felt so absolutely true. And it was so unexpected – as if while I was walking down the hall, God appeared before me – that [...] Give me a candle of spirit As I go down deep into the core of my being Show me the hidden things The creatures of my dreams The storehouse of my forgotten memories and hurts … Take me down to the spring of my life And tell me of my nature And my name. Give [...] |
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