Art Heals--Why Don't We All?
Art sometimes seems like an extravagance decorating our casual hours. Other times it seems emphatically vital. Combine the terms and...
Proust and James, Mindfully
I want to highlight two writers of calm attention, Marcel Proust and Henry James. I read neither in school, which probably is a good...
Robert Finigan and the Post-Mindful Wine World
I ran across an apparently out of print book by wine writer Robert Finigan. In the Seventies and Eighties, he was one of the most...
Journals as Mindfulness
Here I will speak in praise of journals. I mean by the term any sort of personal, not necessarily public, writing. Letters as well, that...
Thoreau--An Engagement
Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry) needs no introduction. He seems distinctly American, but maybe that’s hooey. What's an American,...
The Mandalas of Lynn Behrendt
Psychologist Carl Jung, whose curiosity was both iconoclastic and far-reaching, developed an interest in mandalas. He encouraged his...
The Perspective of Meditation
I started practicing meditation some years ago. It felt like something that I needed. I felt an agitation. Meditation is indeed a...
Mandala in the Woods
My wife and I walk in the woods and fields when we can. We always bring a camera. We used to go here and there but we have settled on one...
Review of Against Misanthropy by Eileen Tabios
Eileen Tabios is a Filipino-American writer, editor, activist, and so forth. The so forth is crucial. Her integration of writing,...
Colouring Mandala
Colouring books have become popular lately with adults. The simple act of colouring an image provides a calming effect, on the order of...
