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.
Category: Books & Literary Objects
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
Stepping to the Podium: Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking
For whatever reason, it started in high school. I knew the answers to the teachers’ questions, but didn’t raise my … More
Inner Outsider: The Necessity of Art (Part V)
But what of imagination? When the completion of a thing, a work, a compulsion burned out in form from … More
