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The Jungle Effect Book Club: How to Find an Indigenous Diet that Works for You

By Charity Singleton Craig 2 Comments

The Jungle Effect indigenous diets

In this final discussion of Daphne Miller’s The Jungle Effect, Charity Singleton Craig considers the challenges and opportunities of finding your own indigenous diet options.

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The Jungle Effect Book Club: Specific Indigenous Diets and What They Have in Common

By Charity Singleton Craig 8 Comments

The Jungle Effect book club

In this week’s book club discussion of Daphne Miller’s The Jungle Effect, Charity Singleton Craig helps us understand the unique diet characteristics of disease “cold spots” around the globe and how we might benefit from their practices in our own settings.

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Poems to Listen By: Under the Canopy 04—Maple Grove

By Laurie Klein 10 Comments

Under the Canopy podcast sunglight on redwood

Can a tree seduce? Be flirtatious? Enjoy these poems in Laurie Klein’s latest Poems to Listen By podcast, and you decide.

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The Jungle Effect Book Club: The Basics of Indigenous Diets and How They Work

By Charity Singleton Craig 18 Comments

bee pollen purple flower

In this week’s book club discussion of The Jungle Effect, Charity Singleton Craig considers the benefits of an indigenous diet, relying on locally available foods.

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Poems to Listen By: Under the Canopy 03—Benedictus

By Laurie Klein 8 Comments

Under the Canopy snowy trees

In her latest Under the Canopy episode, Laurie Klein reflects on the way trees remind us of eternity and mortality, with poetry from Paul Willis and Luci Shaw.

Filed Under: Blog, Patron Only, Podcasts, Poems to Listen By, Tree Poems, Under the Canopy

Book Club Announcement: The Jungle Effect (Plus Two More Winter Book Clubs)

By Charity Singleton Craig 13 Comments

Jungle Effect elderberry

Advances in food technology have not always served us as well as we might expect. Coming up later this month, join Charity Singleton-Craig for an exploration of The Jungle Effect and discover how the healthiest diets from around the world can be adapted to work for us.

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Friendship Project: Somebody I Used To Know

By Callie Feyen Leave a Comment

Writers Block Coffee Shop

When writer’s block threatens to derail, one writer finds a way forward in music, baking, friendship and the practice of “living it a while.”

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Project, Patron Only, Writing Life

Poems to Listen By: Sharing the Canopy 02—Motherhood

By Laurie Klein 13 Comments

Poems to listen by under the canopy

In the latest Poems to Listen By: Under the Canopy podcast, Laurie Klein shares “Motherhood” from Diane Loretta Walker and considers the stories trees hold inside.

Filed Under: Black Poets, Blog, Patron Only, Podcasts, Poems to Listen By, Tree Poems, Under the Canopy

Adjustments Book Club: Homecomings

By Rick Maxson 15 Comments

Path in autumn leaves

In the final installment of our book club discussion of Adjustments, Rick Maxson reflects on what makes a home, and what makes it possible for a person to come home again.

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Adjustments Book Club: Messages Out of the Dark and Dancing in the Lights

By Rick Maxson 3 Comments

night sky silhouette hill

In this week’s Adjustments book club, Rick Maxson reflects on what it means, in Archibald MacLeish’s words, to take the world, and on Will Phillips’ fumbling acceptance of his many selves.

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Poems to Listen By: Sharing the Canopy 01—Under the Black Oaks

By Laurie Klein 10 Comments

Under the Black Oaks

In honor of the holiday season, join Laurie Klein for the first in a delightful new series, Poems to Listen By—Sharing the Canopy: 8 Ways Trees Embody Our Stories. Our holiday episode features Pablo Neruda, Chicken Little, and Stephen Dunn’s “Under the Black Oaks.”

Filed Under: Patron Only, Podcasts, Poems to Listen By, poetry prompt, Tree Poems, Under the Canopy

Adjustments Book Club: We Note Our Place With Book Markers

By Rick Maxson 19 Comments

Sunrise in field

How does friendship play a role in identifying, and going on to meet, our needs? Explore the relationship between new friends Will and Joe in Rick Maxson’s first Adjustments Book Club installment.

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Friendship Project: The Best of Friends

By Callie Feyen 2 Comments

Figs in bowl friendship

Our truest friends bring something out of us that we might not have the strength or courage to see if it weren’t for them. Callie Feyen reflects on true and best friends.

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“The Art of the Essay” Book Club: True

By Megan Willome Leave a Comment

Charity Singleton Craig

Meaningful essays are capital-T True. Learn how to write essays that endure in the final meeting of ‘The Art of the Essay’ book club.

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“The Art of the Essay” Book Club: Slant

By Megan Willome 5 Comments

Charity Singleton Craig

In a tell-all environment, how do we write essays when we can’t tell it all? We tell it slant. Join us for our book club on ‘The Art of the Essay.”

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Books, Patron Only, Writing Life, Writing Tips

Between Friends: Breathing Lessons

By Callie Feyen 3 Comments

Breathing lessons Racetrack Playa Death Valley

Whether we’re in high-altitude locations like Santa Fe, or in high-challenge situations that feel out of our grasp, it can help to have a friend to remind us how to breathe.

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Project, Patron Only, Writer Friends

“The Art of the Essay” Book Club: Truth

By Megan Willome 4 Comments

Charity Singleton Craig

The key to essay-writing is getting to the truth. Megan Willome discusses how to get there in our book club on Charity Singleton Craig’s ‘The Art of the Essay.’

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Want a Sense of Home, Togetherness & Creativity?—Try The Farmers Market Factor

By Charity Singleton Craig 4 Comments

Farmacology farmers market cucumbers

Charity Singleton Craig wraps up her book club discussion of Farmacology exploring the ways that farmers markets and community gardening contribute to the health not only of individuals, but of entire communities.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Farmacology, Patron Only

Stairs & Ascensions: Lighthouse in New Jersey

By L.L. Barkat Leave a Comment

Rumors of water lighthouse

For this month’s “Stairs and Ascensions” theme, enjoy this patron-only excerpt from L.L. Barkat’s beloved Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing.

Filed Under: Blog, Patron Only, Rumors of Water

Farmacology Book Club: Stress, Brain Plasticity, and Living a Free-Range Writing Life

By Charity Singleton Craig 11 Comments

Farmacology free range eggs

A little sunshine, outdoor play, and socializing can go a long way to reduce stress in humans — and chickens. Charity Singleton Craig discusses Farmacology in this week’s book club.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Farmacology, Patron Only

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