Category: Books & Literary Objects
Dear Rebecca Solnit, (An Open Letter to White Women)
I recollect of an interview you did some years ago, in which you suggested that there weren’t any Black women to join your group of intellectual warriors. Black women, Indigenous women, Latinas, Asian women, immigrant women and poor women need mentoring to have successful careers.
Gleaning Wisdom Book Club: June 23rd
Join our facilitated book club featuring Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo, of the Muscogee Creek Nation, Poet Laureate of the United States in 2019. This is our offering for Karma Compass’ first book club.
The Most Important Reason to Say, “Thank you!”
We have to respond to one another if we want a good relationship. Without acknowledgment and reciprocity, the energies of love and kindness dissipate. Reinforcement strengthens connection.
A Better Dream
2021 has been such as been such an eventful year already. Who would have thought that Wednesdays could provide us … More
Social Justice and the Mindfulness Bell Go Together
Please support the Plum Village Community with a purchase of The Mindfulness Bell Autumn 2020/Issue 85 and read the Venerable … More
Rediscovering the Love of Reading (Youth Speak Out Series)
This Quarantine has been an unprecedented and unforgiving time for many of us. Most people are feeling at least a … More
Ten Great Books to Take Your Mind Off COVID-19
Don’t you love a good book? Whether you bathe in the bloody world of bigotry and vampires with Octavia Butler, … More
On the Path to Healing: The Practice of Intimacy
I have been thinking about whether we humans can heal themelves for some 35 years now. In truth I’ve been … More
Highlighted Authors from Fierce: Essay by and about Dauntless Women
Hundreds of years after Deborah Sampson, a gender-bending Revolutionary War soldier, trod the earth, Jessie Serfilippi traverses Sampson’s exact footsteps … More