Click here to read an earlier Riehlife post relating to Dempsey’s writing process for “Two Candles.” Ernest Dempsey uses the defining image of light as the threading metaphor through his collection of 74 selected poems contained in 84 pages. Light as an archtypal image is the perfect connecting theme as Dempsey’s mind roams classic philosophic territory [...]

Alethea Eason commenting on the post “Building a Creative Practice is not for whimps” said: I believe that having regular session to do creative work is essential, but it may not be practical to have this occur every day, especially with a full time job, family, etc. I used to feel I was “failing” because I [...]

Capricorn Heart = Persistence of the goat My second post for my Creative Catalyst series on Story Circle Network’s “Telling Herstories: The Broad View” is now up. You can access “Building a Creative Practice: Not for Wimps” by clicking here…where you’ll also see the first post, “What is Creativity Anyway?” Also, a third post will go [...]

It seems that humans, in order to deal with the mass of humanity they encounter, need to organize the masses by reverting to labeling people through identity. I don’t know if this is genetic or a learned behavior (clearly the details are very much learned), but it is the root of much of the problems [...]

As we got closer to Grant Park, a friend from Oregon called and said she just wanted me to hold my phone up when Barack spoke so she could hear him. The lines of people snaked up Michigan Avenue; by now it was 9:45 p.m. and my daughter was sure we were too late. About [...]

Rod McLaren, a native Canadian whose formal title in Ghana is Nana Akwasi Amoako Agyeman, Edubiase Nkosuohene. Which means he is a Development Chief of Edubiase. He owns the African Rainbow Resort in Busua Beach where I’ll be staying 2 weeks when I visit Ghana for the month of December. I connected to him through [...]

In his 1959 poem, Langston Huges asked: “What happens to a dream deferred?” Although Langston did not live to see the first fulfillment of that dream as last night the nation elected its first black man to the presidency by a landslide of electoral votes, one cannot help that imagine that somewhere up there in [...]

If you find it inspiring, you could include these prayers in your practice for the election. Naturally, I’m for the Obama-Biden ticket. But, If you find this prayer inspiring, whatever your choices, feel free to use it for the highest good in the American election…for America, and for the world.–Janet May the outcome of this [...]

Last night, Joel P.E. King’s “Real Life” received a reading at The Space, on Vendeventer. A national producer attending gave it a thumbs up at the end of the show and will be taking it all the way. It was like being present at one of those reality shows, and very exciting as we enjoyed [...]

Freida Wheaton of Salon 53 is a strong supporter of Dance St. Louis (click here to learn more) as both donor and board member. Last spring a table filled with Freida’s friends, had the pleasure of enjoying an evening of dining and performance to raise funds for the organization. So, I was only too [...]