James Stanford, “Budding Buddha.” From artfixdaily.com James Stanford is a longtime Buddhist artist with a distinct aesthetic and inspiration. Last November, he donated his “Budding Buddha” art to the Art for Tibet exhibit and auction at Gallery Eight in New York, which was organized by Students for a Free Tibet. Can you describe a bit your background in […]
Conversion
Wild and silent asthe desert of an arcticlandscape, the one eventthat never happens the wayit is supposed to.
Patriotism and Other Myths
At some point, there has to be apoint. A reason why. But what if the reasonwhy is why there isno reason? What if there is nothingbut suffering heroes hopingthat their suffering will make a difference, yet knowingthat it doesn’t mean adamn. They do it anyway.
What We Need to Dream
sharing the same earthwe share the same water breathing the same airwe need the same soil we need birdsto feel and to love so little separates us fromwhat we need to dream
My Brother’s Knife
Photo by Hunter Jessie Deuel. From Pinterest I still have the fishingknife he dropped offin the parking lot ofthe Greyhound station. An initialed knife with aleather handle and skeletalwhite blade that doesn’t belongto anyone, not even the Marines.
Alice Walker
She watches the solar system the way Galileo did yearning for extinction&fresh as shallots just opened she writes to change her taste in the world
A Mind Engaged
The world may not needmore poems but it certainlyneeds more parks where poemscan be written – the poem here withus, thirsty as the roots fed and a mind engaged again. George Cassidy Payne is a poet from Rochester, NY. His work has been included in such publications as the Hazmat Review, Moria Poetry Journal, Chronogram Journal, Ampersand Literary Review, The Angle at St. John Fisher College, and 3:16 Journal. George’s […]
The Earth Is An Ordinary Friend
the oughtness of an ant&the secret codes of Hawthorn trees The way Socrates said yes to the hemlock she was an ordinary friend. That feelingof being stuck in paradise
The 9th Buddhism & Australia Conference, Perth
Our friends at Buddhism and Australia will be hosting their 9th International Conference from 6 – 8 February 2020 in the city of Perth, in the beautiful state of Western Australia. This conference will investigate the history, current and future directions of Buddhism in Australasia and is a platform for scientists and Buddhists to present their […]
Sunset Over Henderson Harbor
She handed me the egg sprayed in blooded paint between the bones, slowly and meticulously, even perilously and the egg, in her fingers (if one could call them that) reminded me of the sun accused and oozing below a fluorescent indigo horizon sandblasted, with chocolate shadows on the cheeks of homes congregated on the rocky […]