Author Event

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at Magers & Quinn Booksellers, 3038 Hennepin Ave. S, Minneapolis, 612.822.4611, www.magersandquinn.com • Thursday, March 29, 7:30 p.m. -- Matt Abrahams leads a workshop based on his book, Speaking Up Without Freaking Out: 25 Techniques for Confident Calm and Competent Presenting -- Concerned about an upcoming interview? Anxious about being asked to provide your thoughts during a meeting? Fearful of being required to give a presentation? Many of us are uneasy about speaking in … [Read more...]

Transforming the world by transforming entertainment and media

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LINK: Read the interview with John Raatz Nearly three thousand seats will be filled with professionals from the entertainment, media and arts communities, and others on February 4, when GATE - the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment - presents GATE 2 and the GATE transformational Story Conference in Los Angeles. GATE is a new, non-profit membership trade association founded by transformational marketing pioneer John Raatz, and two honorary co-founders, internationally … [Read more...]

A Thousand Tiny Diamonds

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Why ask Love When a thousand tiny diamonds Shine in the purple sky Misted moon shadows moaned The moment the delicate rain Whispered its sweet dream To the one red rose petal Laying next to the waterfall Easy as a goddess's languid chant Eternity drives a symphony To soar from a storm over all life's time Only asking to sit at your feet Near a blue lake … [Read more...]

Think How

steele

Do you think the future is a linear beast, constrained within its evolution by deterministic random walks along a narrow, one-way avenue, prescribed in its identity by time's unerring quantum arrow? Think how ripples radiate, escaping from the impact of a stone upon water's fluid fabric, alike, yet different from the crystalline chaos, aroused by a kiss from that same stone, of propagating cracks through tempered safety glass. Think how roots invest the … [Read more...]

Remember

roba

Your longing is a sweet gypsy wandering around looking for someone to sing with. Your wanting is a nomad roaming in search of grass and water for his animals. Dear friend: You may go to far away regions wherever your dream wants you to go; but remember to come back to your center, more often; Remember to come back to the center Remember to come back to the center Where the mirror can reflect your true self. Remember to come back to the center. … [Read more...]

Holy Molé | February 2012

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Holy Molé…sponsored by: Harmony Green, Intuitive Healer, owner of All about the Journey…a healing center, 5352 1/2 Chicago Ave., Minneapolis, 612.354.2149, www.allowharmony.com | click on cartoon to go to Holy Molé’s Facebook page. … [Read more...]

Holy Molé | January 2012

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Holy Molé…sponsored by: Harmony Green, Intuitive Healer, owner of All about the Journey…a healing center, 5352 1/2 Chicago Ave., Minneapolis, 612.354.2149, www.allowharmony.com | click on cartoon to go to Holy Molé’s Facebook page. … [Read more...]

Lines on life and breathing

scherman

When light plates a thing, it will, in some sense, forever be plated, forever be captured and living and spoken. How much of what we see will we also see in the afterlife? you asked. And how much can we pack to take with us? If light can be framed, it can be kept, though not the filtered kind, the bits that waffle through the kitchen window screens in foreign shapes and sentences over bagels in the breakfast nook. There is a level to the solid world that the dead … [Read more...]

Lethe, Downstream

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After all, the memories must go somewhere When the synapse-lightning flickers out And all is dark and silent. Souls cross Lethe, Touch foot to the far shore, Touch lips to the glass And are relieved, Maybe. But physics tells us nothing is destroyed; Mass and energy transform and merge But nothing disappears. And anyone will tell you memories Are that: all energy or weighty mass A lift or press: bright wings or stone or clay. So do the faded waters cloud, or warm Or is there … [Read more...]

Winter Reading

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Previews & Reviews of New Books, Recordings & Apps for Body, Mind & Soul Spotlight on Local Authors Other New Releases Apps Gifts for Children CDs DVDs Reviews SPOTLIGHT ON LOCAL AUTHORS A Glimpse of Heaven: The Philosophy of True Health, by Dr. Glen Hepker, $13.95, 120 pages, available at Amazon.com -- A Glimpse of Heaven features the ancient Bright Beautiful School of Thought, or Ming Chia, a philosophy that supports the theory that the quality of our … [Read more...]

Breaking Through: Transformation through painting

polencheck

My recent three-day journey into watercolor painting and spirituality at the Christine Center in Willard, WI was, in a sense, quite transformative. Disclaimer: My last experience with watercolor painting was in kindergarten. Painting? What was I thinking? Well, I wasn't, at least not about the painting. That was the least of my worries. The bit of breaking from my destructive and dangerously affixed routine? That one had my mind spinning. I'm not a traveler. I'm not a … [Read more...]

Joy

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What is Joy but this, that I am always feeling and doing? Is it not me that is choosing? So it is this then that I will be doing, forever more Would you like to walk with me and spare a moment of yours? That I may share but a glance of what I have seen In my Return to Forever I have seen Peace and it looks like this I have felt joy and you have been there Let us remember together I have separated out the confusion and turmoil as if it were a novel that I was reading Yet, it is no … [Read more...]

Autumn Leaves

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Autumn leaves fall where they may. May leaves come forth with no planning. Planning gets in the way of our soul's creation. Creation was not meant to be right or wrong. Wrong places, wrong plans are only in my thoughts. Thoughts of goodness and beauty are true to my heart at this time. Time is a moment to remind me of the perfection when plans fall where they may. … [Read more...]

Timeless Love

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They walk together The aged man and the aged woman Strolling snail-like, side by side Down the concrete promenade Hands held, so gently Skin now paper thin and wrinkled Love entwined in the meshed fingers Time passes and a day comes Only one strolls by In a solo parade The aged man has chosen to walk Down an infinite sidewalk In a place his love could not reach She stayed behind On the concrete promenade The aged woman now walks alone Meandering past me in the park Yet she … [Read more...]

Holy Molé | December 2011

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Holy Molé…sponsored by: Harmony Green, Intuitive Healer, owner of All about the Journey…a healing center, 5352 1/2 Chicago Ave., Minneapolis, 612.354.2149, www.allowharmony.com | click on cartoon to go to Holy Molé’s Facebook page. … [Read more...]