Joy is my birthright, not a bonus.
One small thing for todayEnd the day by naming the best moment out loud.
A Lesson in Impermanence
A rare heart infection sent an abscess to her brain. What Ann Tashi Slater had studied for decades about bardo and impermanence, she was suddenly living.
What our community is reading
The Same Poem, Again
by Creations CommunityWhy a first reading is mostly decoding, what ten mornings with one poem let you see, and a two-minute practice that turns rereading into a way of paying attention.
Black Bean, Date & Tahini Fudge
by Truth and Laughter DentistryA naturally sweetened fudge built on black beans, Medjool dates and tahini, from Truth and Laughter Dentistry. Makes about 16 small squares.
Can We Get Better at Navigating Loss?
by Sue Deagle, Northern VAAmbiguous, anticipated, second-hand, collective, bittersweet. An excerpt from Do Loss on naming the kinds of loss, and why loss is a fork in the road rather than a detour.
Death — You Gotta Love It
by Tony Ærcyus Christie, Cork, IrelandWe are not taught about death at school and most families avoid it. What changes when you treat it as a transition to prepare for rather than a failure to defeat.
Don't Wait for the Dental Cliff
by Integrative Dental Specialists of Long IslandDental problems can wait quietly for years. What changes is not only the tooth but your capacity to heal, and the treatment options still open to you.
Expanding the Heart and Soul
by Valir, Channeled by Dave AkiraThe sixth installment of the Valir series: the heart as a living healing chamber, and what anti-gravity has to teach about the weight a soul carries.
Fire in the Sky (A Veteran's Story)
by Andrea Randa Garvey, Creations MagazineSong lyrics written after a Vietnam veteran came to a healing circle carrying a story nobody had ever asked him to tell.
Haiku
by David Frieman, Huntington Station, NYat the end of life what you gained will fade away what you gave lives on
In the End …
by Joyce and Barry Vissell, Aptos, CAA dying woman's friends brought flowers, candy and jokes. The night cleaner brought a chair and a question. On the love that is already enough.
Judgment vs Discernment
by Ann Albers and The Angels, Phoenix, AZYou never planned to judge. You came equipped with emotions that would help you discern. Ann Albers and The Angels on the difference, and what it costs.
Leaving the Party
by Gina Florentino-James, Huntington Station, NYThe sun-tanned leaves on the tip tops were wearing their sunglasses. A poem for the turn of the season.
Legacy
by Patricia Soper, Patchogue, NYHer soft, plump, infant hand rests on my wrinkled, blue veined skin. A grandmother and a newborn, and what passes between them.
Nature's Blueprint: How Biomimetic Dentistry Protects Your Smile and Overall Health
by Jimmy Kilimitzoglou, DDS, FACD, FPFA, DABOI, MAGD, FAAID, FICOIA tooth is not a solid block of stone. Why conserving what is there, and bonding rather than drilling it away, keeps a tooth alive and lowers systemic inflammation.
Sponge
by Elaine P. Morgan, Warrenton, VAIt started with a trickle when I took my first breath. A life measured in what it absorbed, from the first school day to the wisdom years.
Spooky Halloween Night
by Roberta McQueen, East Islip, NYHalloween party there's the angel and devil seated side by side
Talking Our Walk
by Neil and Andrea GarveyA veteran arrives late and half drunk to a sound healing workshop in East Northport, and stays. What Andrea Garvey witnessed about being heard.
The End. The Beginning … and the Giggles in Between
by Joanne Steenberg, Penobscot, METhree children started giggling in the middle of a funeral, and nobody hushed them. On sorrow and joy held in the same sacred space.
The Unifying Core of the Brain
by Roberto Pinelli, MD, Lugano, SwitzerlandAn eye that turned inward. An ophthalmologist and neuroscientist on the pineal gland's photoreceptors, its ancient reputation, and how modern medicine mislaid it.
The Wound as a Portal
by Gina Goldfeder, Mexico CityA psychologist on the wound as a dish cooked over low heat, why identity clings to it, and the triggers that arrive long after you thought it was buried.
What If Our Problem Isn't What We Believe, But How Firmly We Believe It?
by Joshua Pritikin, Ph.D., White City, ORBeliefs are not load-bearing walls. They are furniture. A quantitative psychologist on doors, walls, and the part of you that is doing the defending.
Who Would I Be Without My Suffering?
by Brenda Shoshanna, New York CityPain is not suffering. A psychologist and Zen practitioner on the secondary benefits of being the one who suffers, and the question that undoes them.
The River Overhead
by Creations CommunityOn September nights the sky over Long Island fills with migrating songbirds. Why they fly in the dark, how to stand outside and hear them, and what to do at dawn.
The Longer Exhale
by Creations CommunityYou cannot slow your heart on command, but you can lengthen a breath out. What the exhale actually does in the body, and how to use it in an ordinary day.
The Peace Offering
by Creations CommunityThe first move after an argument is rarely an apology. It is tea, a joke, a question about the dog. What repair attempts are, and why the receiving is the skill.
The Pantry Week
by Creations CommunitySeven days of cooking from what your kitchen already holds: why full shelves go unseen, what a small constraint gives back, and how to run the week well.
The Morning Stretch
by Creations CommunityThe reach you do before you decide to is one of the body's oldest rituals. What stretching actually changes, why it feels good, and how to give it two minutes.
The Standing Appointment
by Creations CommunityMale friendship rarely dies of conflict. It dies of scheduling. Why one recurring, unglamorous commitment does what good intentions cannot.
The Day You Feel Better
by Creations CommunityThe morning the fever breaks is not the finish line. What convalescence used to mean, what your body is still doing, and how to give recovery its last few days.
The Oldest Beginner in the Room
by Creations CommunityWhy adults quietly stop being new at things, what the gap between your taste and your hands really means, and how to take something up for a season.
A Quieter Place on Your Phone
by Creations CommunityCreations is now an app on iPhone and Android: forty years of writing, searchable, free, and quiet enough to read at night.
The Scrap File
by Creations CommunityCutting gets easier when nothing has to die. Why one unsorted file for everything you cut frees the work, and how to start it with the very next cut.
Sitting in the Driveway
by Creations CommunityThe pause in the parked car is not avoidance. It is the last threshold the day gives you, and a few deliberate minutes there change who walks through the door.
Before You Turn Out the Light
by Creations CommunityAn old nightly practice in plain language: how five minutes of walking back through the day changes what you notice while you are living it.
The Rule You Forgot You Made
by Creations CommunityPersonal rules get made in a moment, for a reason, and then outlive it. How to notice the ones running your days, and how to decide them again on purpose.
The List in Your Head
by Creations CommunityThe running inventory of what a household needs usually lives in one mind. What cognitive labor is, why it exhausts, and how to hand over a whole domain instead of a task.
A Feeling of Collective Effervescence
by Diane Lundegaard, Dix Hills, NYA short story by Diane Lundegaard. Stood up by a friend lost to her phone, a Long Island teenager finds a grandmother, a wild turkey and a walk in the pines instead.
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