@moderation.bsky.app would appreciate being able to identify spirituality / religion within categories of my interest. In my case, Hassidism, Sufism, mystic Christianity, Zen, indigenous spirituality, et cetera, etc, &c. TY. I love Blue Sky.

In Opinion “If you’re going to live in this age that we live in, discomfort is an ongoing thread for everybody through everything,” the Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön says. On “The Ezra Klein Show,” she talks about what it means to develop a friendlier relationship with discomfort and fear.

How Three Asian Peace Walks Are Weaving Interfaith Harmony buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id... #peace #interfaith

Asghar Farhadiå left Tehran to attend the premier of his new film, A Hero, at Cannes today & received a 7-minute standing ovation. x.com/farnazfassih...

On the WELL, a lively discussion with Peter Richardson about his book BRAND NEW BEAT: THE WILD RISE OF ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE. The book takes us inside the chaotic, improvisational early years of Rolling Stone magazine. tinyurl.com/brand-new-beat

A dove once built a nest on my window sill. One day, I looked out and saw a newly hatched chick. It was a gooey blob with huge eyes. Only a mother would forage for worms to feed such a creature.

LIVE from Tehran, via The Markaz Review. The English-language debut of author Iranian Erfan Mojib. " Grandpa didnt think growing tarragon was possible." So it begins ... themarkaz.org/tarragon-a-s... #shortstory #childhood

Language is a thing, it is a written thing, a bit of bark, a sliver of rock, a fragment of clay in which the reality of the earth continues to exist. -- Maurice Blanchot

The Mountain & the Snail. A snail is climbing a mountain. The mountain nourishes the snail, & the snail makes a path where there was none. Slowly, slowly, step by step.

Delicate new leaves on the trees above the carpet of #bluebells. This week's #ShareMondays2026 entry :)

Wood, wire, stone, lichen, moss and clouds. #infrared #photography #ClassicMono #blackandwhite

We do what we can, radiating compassion and kindness because the world is literally us. If I’m made of sunshine, if I’m made of microbes in the soil, if I’m made of water, if I’m made of your efforts as well, my life is certainly inseparable from all of it. – Peter Coyote, Vernacular Zen

Andrea Guevara explains how to promote your book without social media. authorsguild.org/resource/pro... #writers #authors #publicity #promotional

WHEN JULIANA SPAHR READS On listening to Oakland's #Pulitzer Prize–winning poet. By @msatris.bsky.social in @oaklandreviewofbooks.org tinyurl.com/dnexxm2t #poetry #Oakland #PoetryReading

Sometimes it feels like it is over and it's not. Sometimes it feels like it has just begun and it's over. It's dark often at these times. Urban though, so a certain version of light too. It's hard to predict if it will start on time . . . from "Turnt" by Juliana Spahr https://buff.ly/2F75eaV

This is a long essay on the poetic line and lines in the world, ending with a reading of three poems—one by Layli Long Soldier and two by Juliana Spahr. It came out on @annulet.bsky.social in July 2024: annuletpoeticsjournal.com/Eireann-Lors...

@slat54.bsky.social Now Pakistan is putting an alternative-to-Hormuz bid on the table www.dawn.com/news/1995253 #Hormuz #StraitofHormuz #SoH

To a hammer, everything is a nail.

The moment we choose to love, we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others – bell hooks

@thegreybox.bsky.social quotes heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis “A champion doesn’t become a champion in the ring, he’s merely recognized in the ring. His ‘becoming’ happens during his daily routine.” Indeed, one who teaches by conduct, presence, is the greatest master.

Global worker pay declined 12%. CEO compensation increased by 54%. The average CEO receivea $8.4m. Every 2 hours the average billionaire receives more in dividends than the average worker earns in annual pay. shorturl.at/UFApH

Happy Beldane Days.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, & you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. – Jane Goodall

Nuclear War: A Scenario By Annie Jacobsen Dutton, 2024 400 pp.

New Dimensions Radio has been a part of my life for 50 years now. I have donated to their mission to archive past programs. If nothing else, this post might make you a listener, if not a donor. www.gofundme.com/f/save-692-r...

“Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.” Wendell Berry

One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this. – Omar El Akkad

Get to know the people being bombed. A vast majority of Persian-speaking #Iranians know the #poetry of Hafez of Shiraz – by heart – & quote him in everyday conversation. 📚 Paper/eBook: tinyurl.com/4z2wfcvx Audio tinyurl.com/2pacr9f7%F0%... by Samara Naeymi tinyurl.com/384t95k9

Get to know the people being bombed. A vast majority of Persian-speaking #Iranians know the #poetry of Hafez of Shiraz – by heart – & quote him in everyday conversation. 📚 Paper/eBook: tinyurl.com/4z2wfcvx Audio tinyurl.com/2pacr9f7%F0%... by Samara Naeymi tinyurl.com/384t95k9

Strait of #Hormuz chokepoint includes passage of #ferrtilizer. prospect.org/2026/04/21/a... @prospect.org

Tim Snyder coins the phrase "superpower suicide" snyder.substack.com/p/superpower...

Two poets describe #nature. Do you agree? www.sciencefriday.com/segments/how... #poetry @scifri.bsky.social @april-is.bsky.social

Love After Love shorturl.at/uXk4I from WHAT BOOK!? – Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop | | | Paperback $15. ebook $6.99. Order from publisher tinyurl.com/388e4vucor or wherever books are sold. For more info: tinyurl.com/mr3byt9p #NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #mindfulness #mindful #love

#Poetry never sleeps. But every year it's given its #poetrymonth, www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/b...

a woman writes with candor about a friend's suicide www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/s...

As Israel’s war on Lebanon rages on ... themarkaz.org/fragments-of...

Citizens in Iran line up around their power plants and along their bridges in hopes of fending off destruction. bsky.app/profile/news...

Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart. –Robin Wall Kimmerer

What would it take ... www.wsj.com/articles/SB1...

today is the final day of the Season for #NonViolence, . gandhiinstitute.org/wp-content/u...

Beneath cherry blossoms no one's a stranger

by Thich Nhat Hanh from his book of collected poems, of the same name & also included in my anthology WHAT BOOK!? ~ Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop both available from @parallax.org tinyurl.com/5fpaxkr8 #war #peace #mindfulness #compassion

ThIS JUSt IN: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the National Forest Service. Reporting by morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Shahram Khosravi, professor of Anthropology at Stockholm University, imagines Iran one year in the future. themarkaz.org/iran-after-t...

"You're fired." U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

Yet another who doesn't align with the vision of the administration – U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George. That's all we are told. www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...