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Riehl Life Village Wisdom for the 21st CenturyRiehl Life Village Wisdom for the 21st CenturyCreating connections through the arts and across cultures. Articles
Earth Hour Blog Duet with Susan Tweit: Why Symbolic Actions Matter
2008-04-11 17:23:00 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 chatting ... More About: Earth , Blog , Matter , Hour
Family Quotation: ?Honest confession is good for the soul, but darn hard on
2008-04-11 16:10:00 My brother is one of the most competent men I know. He can repair a tractor, bake a pie, and help me with my taxes—all in the same day! That’s an Eagle Scout for you. This week he cooked dinner at the homeplace for not only Pop, himself, and myself, but as a special ... More About: Family , Soul , Hard , Confession , Honest
Riehlife Bonus Poem of the Day: ?Mama?s Powder Puff Was Rough and Tough,? b
2008-04-11 15:51:00 I met Linda Darnece Jones at Kwaanza six days into the new year and we started a conversation about her art and poetry. I heard Linda read “Mama ’s Powder Puff Was Rough and Tough” at a recent Women’s Art and Vision event and asked her if she’d let us share it on Riehlife, to which ... More About: Write , Louis , Bonus , Poem
Riehlife Poem of the Day: e. e. cummings? ?i carry your heart with me (i ca
2008-04-11 15:25:00 When I was a young married woman computing to graduate school at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville in the 1970s before I went into Peace Corps in 1972, my husband and my best friend of that time got together to buy me the complete works of e.e. cummings. I was never so thrilled, and spent almost ... More About: Heart , Poem , Carry
Maya Angelou soul-searching at 80: to be a human being
2008-04-10 19:53:00 “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 Kobe Abe of ... More About: Human , Soul , Maya Angelou , Searching , Maya
Blogged.com Editorial Review Rates Riehlife GREAT!
2008-04-10 18:33:00 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 quite an ... More About: Review , Editorial , Great , Rates
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Sandra Kohler?s ?Why a Woman Can?t Be a Pope?
2008-04-10 16:29:00 Nina’s Night 22″ x 17″ by Eden Maxwell The Country of Women (1995): CALYX Books “Sandra Kohler ’s poems find art in the mundane, the sacred, and the profane. Examining woman’s experience as sexual being, as mother, and as artist, Kohler reveals what it means to live in a woman’s body.” -from the cover Why a Woman ... More About: Poem , Pope
Artist Eden Maxwell?s Life Purpose is Dharma in Daily Life
2008-04-10 16:17:00 A gift might be innate, but not inevitable. Many are called; few choose to go.—Eden Maxwell. Are you bringing your gifts to fruition? Clif Johnston hosts Eden Maxwell today on his Zen Junk Tumblelog. Click here to read a comprehensive interview. Eden Maxwell, author of “An Artist Empowered: Define and Establish Your Value as an Artist?Now” is ... More About: Life , Daily , Purpose
Jammin? Journal Prompts
2008-04-05 19:45:00 Wizard Altar, by Janet Riehl “Thinking as if…magic is real.” If someone gave you a million dollars, what would you do with it? If you could be a character from any book, who would you be? What is the silliest thing to ever happen to you? More About: Journal , Write
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Genie Keller?s ?Director!?
2008-04-05 14:58:00 Genie Keller , along with being a fine poet, is a longtime family friend. –JGR ___________________ DIRECTOR! by Genie Keller Within my heart, my very being, throbs the chords of endless music. In dreamy sections of my thoughts, my hands and arms direct the stream of notes. I am engulfed, my heart beats fast, I plunge into the rhythm of the theme. My foot taps ... More About: Write , Poem , Genie , Director
Bill Moyers Journal look at the Kerner Commission Report excellent resource
2008-04-05 02:48:00 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 ... More About: Resource
Janet Riehl guests on PIVR program ?Marketing for Fun and Profit? hosted by
2008-04-05 01:06:00 INTERNET RADIO At PIVR click on the March 31, 2008 archive recording where my name and my book’s title appears. March 31, 2008 Janet Elaine Smith PIVR (Passionate Internet Voices Radio) “Marketing for Fun and Profit spoke with me and I read my poem “Crocus.” (Which you can read on the sidebar of Riehlife under “Sightlines” ... More About: Guests , Program
Fannie Belle Lebby?s Sizzling One Woman Show ?Ladies of the Blues? lit up T
2008-04-04 22:23:00 Woodie Award nominee Miss Fannie Belle Lebby performed her one woman show, “Ladies of the Blues ”, including portrayals of blues artist/jazz singer Alberta Hunter and comedienne Moms Mabley at The Space. Fannie Belle Lebby has merged her active performing career with activist work such as Jobs for Justice. Miss Freida Wheaton’s Salon 53 sponsored the ... More About: Show , Woman
Riehlife Poem for MLK?s life and death: ?Democracy,? by Langston Hughes
2008-04-04 20:49:00 In honor of the 40th anniversary of the assassination of the great civil right’s leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Riehlife offers Langston Hughes’ poem “Democracy .” —JGR _________________________ Democracy by Langston Hughes Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land. I tire so of ... More About: Life , Death , Poem , Life and Death
Riehlife Bonus Poem of the Day: Linda Jo Smith?s ?Jazz Marsalis?, a Sankofe
2008-04-04 19:39:00 Sankofa is an Adinkra Symbol from Ghana meaning “Return and Fetch It.” Click here to read Riehlife post from December 5, 2007 on how Sankofa has defined the path of my life. The SANKOFET is a poetry form created by the Sisters-Nineties Literary Group. The format has three verses or stanzas of seven lines each. The first ... More About: Jazz , Bonus , Poem , Smith , Linda
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Nabokov?s Butterflies
2008-04-04 17:54:00 Painting by Joseph Lamarque (see profile under Art Matters) Vladimir Nabokov’s poem was suggested by my friend Leigh Davidson as our poem of the day.–JGR Nabokov?s Butterflies : Unpublished and Uncollected Writings No, life is no quivering quandary! No, life is no quivering quandary! Here under the moon things are bright and dewy. We are the caterpillars of angels; and sweet It is ... More About: Poem
Riehlife Poem of the Day: Langston Hughes? ?A Negro Speaks of River? with l
2008-04-03 15:16:00 I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. This is the first stanza of one of my favorite poems “The Negro Speaks of River s,” by Langston Hughes (from The Collected Poem s of Langston ...
Riehlife Poem of the Day: ?November Idyll: After the Still Life,? by David
2008-04-02 16:25:00 Click here to read about the Festival of the Cranes at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in Soccorro, New Mexico November Idyll: After the still life Leviticus 7:12-15 by David Lee (from Orion Magazine, November/December 2007) Above the grain field stubble a lift of cranes like a great table cloth shaken. _____________________ “The poet’s job is to somehow find a way to capture ... More About: Life , Poem , Still Life
Swick?s take on journeys and places
2008-03-30 12:16:00 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 More About: Places
Pelicans ?Just Visiting? Along the Mississippi Flyway
2008-03-30 12:00:00 Pelicans were part of my lyric life in Northern California as Daniel and I paddled round the small peninsula on Clear Lake in our kayaks and there, they are! A cloud of squawking white swirling and settling on the water. I see a blur of pelicans this morning, looking over my shoulder, as I drive on ... More About: Mississippi , Grace Notes , Pelicans
Riehlife Contemplation Series?and Lights Out for Earth Hour
2008-03-29 14:23:00 I’ve been harvesting my journals this week. One of the fruits of my harvest is this series of Riehlife contemplations which I hope you’ll enjoy and use: –for cultivating your own contemplations. –for starting conversations with loved ones and friends. –for prompting your writing. What are your foul weather blue sky gifts? What does your writing/safe haven burrow look like? What ... More About: Earth , Series , Grace Notes , Lights , Hour
Riehlife Contemplation: Foul Weather Blue Sky Gifts
2008-03-29 14:13:00 The world offers itself to your imagination. Offers to you. You offer back. You offer up. The world opens up to you. You open in return, to the world. The world is a gift if only you are there, present and open, waiting and willing, vulnerable and strong to catch and harvest what is offered. The lyrical early spring day with rain spits ... More About: Weather , Gifts , Blue , Blue Sky , Contemplation
Writer?s Burrow?What does your safe writing place within look like? How are
2008-03-28 15:06:00 Every writer needs a writing room. What about a burrow…a hole or tunnel dug into the earth to create a space of temporary refuge….and where your thoughts and feelings can inhabit themselves freely, on paper. Dig a deep hole to bury your sorrows. Bury them, do not forget them. For, they are alive and will burrow ... More About: Writing , Write , Place , Writer , Safe
Riehlife Contemplation: What are the rivers you need and want to cross? Jim
2008-03-28 14:45:00 Jimmy Cliff’s “Too Many Rivers To Cross ” was one of the sound track songs from my time in Botswana and Ghana in the 1970s. There were a lot of rivers to cross, and I learned how to cross them…not all at once, but slowly, and one by one. This also made a great slow dance ... More About: Contemplation
Riehlife Meditation on Bumps and Mountains?across the plains of our worlds?
2008-03-26 20:14:00 When one wrinkle is made smooth, I notice a bump beyond…in the distance…and want to go there and explore. What could that bump be? A mountain, perhaps? Or, just a molehill? I see a vast plain, like a tapestry carpet stretching out before me…miles to the mountain. I will journey over the plains, but need to ... More About: Meditation , Mountains , Worlds , Plains
Author Anne Schroeder?s World of Connections, and the story of ?Ordinary Ap
2008-03-26 18:54:00 Anne Schroeder is a fifth generation Californian, whose love of writing was fueled by stories of immigrant ancestors. Anne evokes the drama of growing up in a close-knit Southern California farm community in her first memoir, “Branches on the Conejo: Leaving the Soil after Five Generations.” Anne and I are linked by our love ... More About: World , Story , Author , The Story , Anne
800 Tibetans March in Chicago?and what you can do to promote peace in Tibet
2008-03-26 16:06:00 Paul Norden sent these photos and this message from Chicago . Tibet an woman waves Tibetan flag in Chicago Tibet Peace March (Photo by Paul Norden) Over 800 Tibetans marched in Chicago on Tuesday, March 18. They came from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana and Illinois. The line peacefully ran from the Water Tower up Michigan Ave over 3 city blocks ... More About: Promote
Ste. Genevieve Specialty Foods
2008-03-25 20:14:00 Now that I’m back in the heartland of the Midwest, I’m happily enjoying Oberle’s Headcheese. Yes, I understand. It’s an acquired taste. But, for us farmgirls, it’s a natural. Oberle’s Meat Market 21529 Highway 32 Ste. Genevieve, Missouri 63670 (573) 883-5656 Offering the original famous Oberle sausage, smoked pork loin, garlic cheese and a wide selection of other prepared meats ... More About: Foods
?Riding Grace: A Triumph of the Soul,? by Alissa Lukara?Evocative Memoir Br
2008-03-23 18:50:00 ?Reading Riding Grace is like watching a lotus emerge out of murky waters. It emerges, not in one dramatic gesture, but in stages; a stem, a leaf, a petal. This book is an inspiration to anyone seeking deep healing.? Jacqueline Kramer, Author of Buddha Mom:The Path of Mindful Mothering, 10 Spiritual Practices for Busy Parents Riding ... More About: Soul , Triumph , Memoir
Shifting Publishing Paradigms: On the Cusp, in conversation with Hal Zina B
More articles from this author:2008-03-20 01:16:00 Technological change totally changes how we all live, how we think?it produces huge consciousness shifts. Hal Zina Bennett is the author of over 31 successful fiction and non-fiction books on creativity, health, shamanism, and personal development. He teaches seminars throughout the U.S. and has support groups for writers in four states. As a creativity and writing ... More About: Publishing , Conversation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
