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What Mary Oliver’s black bear can tell us about the earthquake in Turkey and Syria

Be ignited, or be gone — becoming freethinking mystics with hands

Trees, kettles, ladles and bottles of wild sauces as answers to the question: “What is the meaning of life?”

A new-materialist meditation woven around four poems by Lucretius, A. R. Ammons, Joseph Blanco White, and Mary Oliver—‘It is only enough to touch the inner light of each surrounding thing and hope it will itself be stirred to radiance’

Immediate tactile, visceral answers in the breeze—the mysticism of wide open eyes

She—the moon—listens to my complaints like the good companion she is & comforts me surely with her light.

Encounter—a religious naturalist “road to Damascus” experience

In praise of craziness of a certain kind—a winter meditation on love