Open Prayer to W.B. Yeats by Burt Bradley, from After Following Unlike you, I have no tower of symbols, no great lust for Helen of Troy,no Maude Gonne to fall madly overfor years, and no Madam Blavatsky (thank God and all seven orders of angels). Just this...
Inspiring Syn: We recently sat down with Beth Kander to ask her the inspiration behind her latest work, Original Syn, now available through our sci-fi imprint, Owl House Books. As an author and playwright, people often ask me “Where do you get your ideas?!” Usually,...
The Bouquet of the Last Direction by Frank LaRue Owen Winner 2017 Homebound Publications Poetry Prize When the soul becomes unburdened it’s like a new saddle on a fresh horse. Suddenly the trail feels right again, and the strong horizon line in front of you as...
an excerpt from Companions on the Way by Gunilla Norris There is no book that talks about spiritual and heart-full practices that does not include gratitude as central. It’s not hard to see that when we are given something, and truly receive it, our response will be...
I think it annoys God if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it. –Alice Walker an excerpt from Woodland Mantiou by Heidi Barr It was late fall the year that my daughter was eight months old and didn’t care for the practice of...
by Heidi Barr, author of Woodland Manitou I walk through the tall grass toward the place where the water bubbles out of the ground, cold as ice and clear as fresh air. To get here, you have to drive down a winding back road and pull off ot the side of it to...
