what’s the buzz?
gratitude
Our newest author, Rachel DesRochers, has a very helpful habit of listing out all that she's grateful for. That's Rachel in the photo below reading from her new book The Mourning Light: Reflections…
those winds--
Those winds -- they're a real live thing! And so is the book Matt Klooster and I have been working on for a few months now. It's our hope that winds of (r)evolution could be helpful for what is upon…
last calls
Matt Klooster and I are so grateful to all of you for supporting our winds of (r)evolution...Matt's paintings and my poems. Yesterday as we were working on the book, Matt mentioned that this is in…
the Universe is a strange place
The Universe is a strange place. Matt Klooster and I met through a retreat follow-up meeting in 1997 when we were both at St. Xavier High School. Matt was a senior; I was a new teacher. I can…
poem
Our Inner Journey circle has given a number of poets and creators an opportunity to try out, to air out new ideas. It is something to put such sound and vibration and pause into the air with a poem.…
VITALITY...a circle that changes you, me, + the world
At our Inner Journey this past week, Helen Buswinka and I were noticing that what we do at VITALITY is very different from other groups. We do not have speakers or events where people just come hear…
new
As we leave one calendar behind for another, a new one, I always wonder what each new year might be inviting. Yesterday gave me a glimpse...flexibility! Two events planned and two events already…
did you get your name in the book?
We're very close to layout time -- game time! -- with Jack Kennevan's book Conversations with Prisoners...a selection of those inspiring letters he wrote to prisoners with whom he was meeting for…
conversations with prisoners
Jack Kennevan inspired me as a St. Xavier High School golf coach... and little did I know then that he was meeting with inmates every week as as volunteer chaplain too. Jack visited Hamilton County…
forty-five minutes
Krista Powers has so inspired me. You might know her from her book she published with us last year, Midlife Calm: An Alternative to Midlife Crisis. She's on a healing journey which she shared with…