“There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.” —Gandhi Wendy Tremayne, mother of the Swap-O-Rama, based in NYC, a brilliant art from recycled materials project, tells us the next Swap-O-Rama has arrived. In between Swap-O-Rama’s she’s been hosting a weekly fabric art party where fabric, friends and fun come…
Milou, a 9 year old student from Buenos Aires, put up this blog as a place to share poems for e World Poetry Day (March 21st). On the blog “students, kids and poets, writers and artists from all over the world post a contribution for Earth Day.” Click here to see what they posted to…
Photo by Eden Maxwell, from the Tibetan Museum on Staten Island His Holiness the Dalai Lama is joined at this event by four distinguished panelists. In addition to the interaction of the panelists, you’ll see short videos on the panelists’ work. Here’s the link for April 11, 2008 session (9-11 PST) at University of Washington,…
Isabella Mori’s blog “change therapy: making lives better, making better lives” is sponsoring a Buddhist carnival. What’s that? It’s a selection of buddhist posts all over the blogosphere. Isabella kindly included Riehlife’s features on Eden Maxwell.
Naomi Shihab Nye (Image Credit: Stephen Barclay Agency—Photo by James Evans) As the beauteous Ibtisam Barakat (author of “Taste the Sky”—see post below as well) laid out a table filled with books overflowing with tabbed pages and Naomi Shihab Nye’s wisecracks began to flow alongside her wisdom, we knew we were in for something besides…
Symbolism is the tool of the poet, the visionary, the dreamer, the prophet, the priestess, the medicine woman, world healers and healers all over the world, ritualists, ceremonialists, performance artists, theater folks, and…yes, activists! Susan Tweit and I have been continuing our conversation on returning reverence and creativity to your daily life. Particularly, we’ve been…
“When I was about 12, I guess, I read the statement, I am a human being. Nothing human can be alien to me. The statement is so complex, so simple, Angelou says, quoting the roman playwright Terence. Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto. I have been internalizing that all my life. So if…
I received a nice surprise note from Amy Liu of Blogged.com’s editorial department who told me that Riehlife ranked 189th out of 3,562 blogs on books…and received an 8.0 (GREAT) score out of a possible 10 (EXCELLENT) when the Blogged.com editors recently reviewed my blog in the entertainment/Books category of Blogged.com. Amy says: This is…
All week I’ve been thinking about and talking about Bill Moyers Journal March 28, 2008 look at “an update of the Kerner Commission Report, which blamed the violence on the devastating poverty and hopelessness endemic in the inner cities of the 1960s.” There is a transcript and podcast and background material here you’ll want to…
Click here to read the entirety of Swick’s find essay “Photo book can reveal places, but not experiences there.” Journeys don’t spare us; they drag us through the raw on our way to the sublime. –Thomas Swick, travel editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel