Mind-Body-Spirit
The Life Imagined: Interview with Psychotherapist, Andrew Nargolwala
“Every relationship is an interaction. And a healthy relationship is an act of constant creation. That is why I always say that no one can ever know what he or she desires sexually until that individual explores the possibilities with their unique partner.”
Read MoreThere is No Beauty Without the Sacred: Parisian Sculptor/Philosopher Marc Vinciguerra On Returning Meaning to Art
“When I sculpt someone it is not his body that I sculpt but his soul.”
Read MoreWe Were All Women in the Womb: Icelandic Drag Performers On Feminism and Free Expression
“Gender is a social construct and drag breaks it down and reconstructs it.”
Read MoreLet Me Tell You About My Father…
I invited some of the special people I know ~ from poets whose work has appeared in Combustus magazine to a dancer friend of mine who immigrated from Hungary ~ to share with us some of the wisdom they’ve received over the years from their fathers as well as what has been passed on to their own children.
Read MoreNow We Bow Our Heads: Interview with Poet Ralph Pennel
But I believe that we all, at the very least,
should have some. Beauty, that is.
Maybe even just a little more. That
even in a poem about beauty
we must be moved to see its two sure hands
and how our own fit perfectly inside them.
The Intelligence of Dreams: Art We Create For Ourselves
In our dreams, through the character of the anima, we get to experience becoming this girl who lives in each of our souls.
~ Marc Bregman, archetype dreamworker
Sweet Gratitude
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.”
~Albert Schweitzer
Cherylene Dyer: Body and Soul
“As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.”
~ Hermann Hesse
Dance Film “Eclipse” Captures Intimate Conversation With Not A Word Spoken
No words in this eloquent short film, only Dustin O’Halloran’s original composition, “We Move Lightly,” David Cooper’s photography and Linda Arkelian’s choreography. Put together: nothing short of magic.
Read More“No One’s Speaking For Me Anymore.” Interview with children’s book Illustrator, Nicole Rubel
“I remember once I was drawing a Halloween picture, and my art teacher came up to me and said, “The sky is not purple, and pumpkins do not fly through the air.”
~Nicole Rubel, children’s author/illustrator, Oregon, USA
Is Writing Poetry Akin to Taking a Shamanic Journey? Interview with Ruth L. Schwartz, Ph.D.
“After having personally practiced shamanism, shamanic healing, and shamanic journeying for more than half a century, I can say that there is nothing I have encountered in reports of the spiritual experiences of saints, prophets, psychedelic drug experimenters, near death survivors, avatars and other mystics that is not commonly experienced when following classic journey methods using a drum.”
—Michael Harner, The Foundation for Shamnic Studies
An Artist Dreamed: Interview with Ethiopian painter Yared Nigussu
I was in France at the time and I met a young guy in my French class. And he was an ex-child soldier. I saw him as always really sad. You didn’t ever see a smile on his face. We’d go for coffee or a drink, and one day I just asked him, “Hey man, why don’t you ever smile?” And he just explained to me that his childhood was stolen from him. I told him that if I was a writer I would write something, but I am a painter. So I painted his portrait.
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