“The Approach to World Peace”: Live Webcast of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Maui Public Talk (available for broadband)

KAHULUI, MAUI , HAWAI’I – In collaboration and partnership with the Maui community, His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, will have the entire world as his audience as part of a realtime webcast of his public appearances on the island of Maui on April 24 and 25, 2007.

World Audience Interviews Janet Grace Riehl: “The Poetry of Life and Death, from the author of ‘Sightlines’ a book that discovers the peace following a trauma.”

After Ernest Dempsey reviewed “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” on TCM Reviews, we struck up an email correspondence. We began to find out that even though we are from different generations (I am old enough to be his mother), and different cultures (he lives in Pakistan, and I’m in the USA), that we shared many values…

EcoArts of Lake County–Sculpture Walk and Film Festival in Northern California

Earth Day seems a fitting time to tell you about this environmental arts initiative in Lake County, Northern California, where I’ve been living for the past nine years. Karen Turcotte-Williams and John Williams started the Sculpture Walk outside Middletown, California in 2003. It’s grown from a brave effort of just a few to a glorious…

Earth Day’s 37th Birthday: Largest Secular Holiday in the World!

What is Earth Day and how did it start? Wikipedia tells us: Earth Day proved extremely popular in the United States and around the world. The first Earth Day, in 1970, had participants and celebrants in two thousand colleges and universities, roughly ten thousand primary and secondary schools, and hundreds of communities across the United…

Poetic Film: And Now Ladies & Gentlemen”–Laude LeLouch–Anglo-French Co-Production

Okay, I get my films late. Part of fuddy-duddy-hood and part of living in the country. And, worse (or better, maybe?) when I’m in Illinois, I get my films from the library. And Now Ladies and Gentleman, an Anglo-French co-production from 2003 directed by Claude LeLouch and an official selection of Cannes Film Festival Closing…

Day 6: Ten Zen Seconds Blogtour–Kay Pere

In Kay’s Quiet Little Life blog, she explores the challenges of creating a meaningful artistic life while working to make a living from her efforts. Kay Pere is a multi-dimensional performing songwriter, visual artist, writer, educator and activist whose work embodies a message of hope, healing, humor and humanity. When she isn’t traveling to perform,…

Erwin A. Thompson’s Famous Author Day at Hayner Library, Alton, Illinois

Pop (Erwin A. Thompson) had a reading and signing at Hayner Library in Alton, Illinois this week for his new Western–Cattle Country and Back Trail: Two Tales from the Thompson Western Series. He always delivers more content and more soul than any audience could hope for. In the morning when I came downstairs, I heard…

Day 4: Ten Zen Seconds Blogtour–The Independent Stitch

Deborah Robson’s Independent Stitch Deb is a writer, artist, and independent publisher. Her blog discusses knitting, writing, spinning, independent publishing, and similar quests. Deb and Eric chat about where the Ten Zen Seconds technique came from, how culture interferes with our ability to center, and how Eric makes personal use of the TZS method. Deb…