“This is travel writing at its most luminous. Theodore Richards combines the storytelling gifts of a bard with the limpid seeing of a contemplative. His social commentary is penetrating without being violent and his advice to his three beloved children is exquisitely unsentimental.“ – Mirabai Starr, Author of God of Love and Caravan of No Despair To begin, I want to share the somes lines of Theodore Richards latest work’s A Letter to My Daughters: Remembering the Lost Dimension and the Texture of Life. ‘Before you were born, I went on a journey that would take me around the world completely, …
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Wild Mystic Folk for Lovers, Gamblers, and Rovers Alike | Luke Redfield
“And some artists—whether it’s moviemaker Terrence Malick or folksinger Luke Redfield or poet Linda Gregg—help so we might see again: see that all is holy, that all is strange, that all is miracle.” – Teddy Macker, UCSB The Bottom Line I love the kinship one can feel with a poet, author, or musician. The right song or poem can track you down and settle into the liturgy of your life. I count myself lucky to have had that experience too many times to count. I try to keep my ears open enough so artistic expressions can tunnel their way from my …
Wendell Berry & Gary Snyder are Distant Neighbors | Chad Wriglesworth
“In Distant Neighbors, both Berry and Snyder come across as honest and open-hearted explorers. There is an overall sense that they possess a deep and questing wisdom, hard earned through land work, travel, writing, and spiritual exploration. There is no rushing, no hectoring, and no grand gestures between these two, just an ever-deepening inquiry into what makes a good life and how to live it, even in the depths of the machine age.” – Orion Magazine Chad Wriglesworth is a professor (at St. Jerome’s University), literary critic, book editor and writer. What most strikes me about Chad is his love …
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