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An Epic Journey Becomes “The Uncertainty Principle” “The Uncertainty Principle” — What if a bored and lonely teen met a strikingly good-looking teenage girl from a megayacht?

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#writers #YA #Nautical

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Am feeling like it's time for a media fast for me for a while. Fortunately, I have few followers and those who'll miss my scribblings will know I'll come back on the other side.

Be kind.

Kavita Krishnan Iranian novelist and writer Sahar Delijani who was born in the Evin prison in Iran, takes down the notion that the brutal and murderous nature of the regime justifies the genocidal Netanyahu regime’s....

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And then recent posts by Sahar Delijani courtesy of KKavita Krishnan resonating with what I'm hearing my dear, exhausted Iranian American friends all saying.

www.facebook.com/kavita.krish...

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Then, turning towards Iran, this report from Tehran in The Markaz Review from an anonymous eyewitness. He's calling it a "Twelve-Day War." Let's hope right now is not a lull & the cease-fire actually sticks. ( Why not!? )

themarkaz.org/missiles-and...

Not turning away from the suffering depicted in 2 dozen different posts from Gaza City this morning – [ Enough already! Please, STOP!! ]

RSVP to Noasis Happy Hour: Music for Hope | Partiful In times of division and conflict, art becomes more essential than ever. Join us for a meaningful evening supporting work that counters destruction with creativity and brings light to dark places. Co...

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Sahba Aminikia : www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsXf...
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#Iran #healing

Happy #Juneteenth! Sharing some ways to support Black people today and everyday ✊🏾❤️

wch translation of Dusty ?

Please post word from anybody's friends / relatives in Iran.

Violence boomerangs.

– LaoZi, 4th century BC.

honored indeed that the brief poems by Ko Un I helped translate have made the cut.

Season 3, Ep. 11: Ari Honarvar on how art keeps us tethered to freedom Podcast Episode · A Soulful Revolution · 05/21/2025 · 51m

Ari Honarvar on how #art keeps us tethered to #freedom
on " A Soulful Revolution Podcast" hosted by Rev Lauren Grubaugh Thomas

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#spirituality

I need stationery as big as the sky to say Thank You. Alice Quinn selected 4 poems by Ko Un SSN – translated by Prof Young-moo Kim, An Sonjae, & me – for @newyorker.com.
18 years later, Kevin Young includes them in "100 Years of Poetry in 'The New Yorker" from @aaknopf.bsky.social. #poetry

But I’ll Still Try to Love You "[At my first sit-in] we sat there for two days waiting for something to eat. And it was the most challenging two days of my life. People came up and spat at us in the face. They put lit cigarettes do...

I'll Still Try To Love You : The Power of Nonviolence

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#nonviolence #satyagraha #Quaker

Elon Musk, the founder of Neuralink, is advancing the concept of brain-computer interfaces, which allow users to communicate with machines using only their thoughts. According to the company, two human subjects have already received implants. The aim is to remove the need for physical interaction with devices entirely — no tapping, no swiping, not even speaking. Instead, thought would drive action.

What could possibly go wrong

YouTube video by Nimatullahi Sufi Order سلسله نعمت‌اللهی Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, Master of Nimatullahi Order I -مصاحبه دکتر جواد نوربخش، پیر سلسله نعمت‌اللهی

Interview: Dr. Javad Nurbakhsh, Master of Nimatullahi Order I -مصاحبه دکتر جواد نوربخش، پیر سلسله نعمت‌اللهی
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#Sufi #Sufism

New website www.nimatullahi.org

#Sufi #Sufism

Hearts Have Their Own Brain and Consciousness Many believe that conscious awareness originates in the brain alone. Recent scientific research suggests that consciousness actually emerges from the brain and body acting together. A growing body of ...

NIH focus on the brain – but not beyond – has overshadowed our appreciation of the gut as a second brain ( cf Candace Pert ), & the heart ...

wakeup-world.com/2012/02/29/h...

Is it naive to hope all sides to warfare reconsider ? Probably. Is that any reason not to ?

For this year's memorial day weekend, I've recorded Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen. If you do listen, I'd like hear how it makes you feel.
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"Writing the Body" w @margosteines.bsky.social is back! What skills, craft tools, literary instincts, and embodied practices can writers use to support our body work? Learn allt his and more w @christinajcooke.bsky.social, @porochista.bsky.social, Sarah Manguso, & Krys Malcom Belc: buff.ly/JOxfnwQ

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A Sufi Commentary on the Tao Te Ching: The Way and Its Virtue - Fons Vitae Publishing This extraordinary book contains a full translation of the Tao Te Ching from Chinese, along with an extensive Sufi mystical commentary on each verse by the renowned scholar, Professor Seyyed Hossein N...

A Sufi Commentary on the Tao Te Ching by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Translators: Mohammad H. Faghfoory, Toshihiko Izutsu
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#Sufism #Daoism #Interfaith

[2025.05.21.] The Future of Publishing & Literature in Translation Translated works build bridges within the literary world and beyond. Hear experts in publishing literature in translation, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of New Directions…

The Future of Publishing & Literature in Translation

@City of Asylum
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#translation #literarytranslation

Between the Living and the Dead: An Interview with Alice Notley | Los Angeles Review of Books Shoshana Olidort interviews poet Alice Notley.

RIP Alice Notley November 8 1945 – May 19 2025

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#motherhood #epic #poetry #poetrylovers #AfterLife

It's also possible to create a full spectrum with 2 colors, but – that's another story.

#color #light #farbenlehr

When I lived on the lower east side her & Ted's encouragement meant so much.

Deepest sympathies.

The great poet Alice Notley has died. Her 1992 book ‘The Descent of Alette’ is a journey into the underworld, into what is under our world, into thinking and rethinking and memory, and back out into the light.