The mid-June chapter in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle focuses on the context - and importance - of organic, community-grown gardens. She situates this conversation in mid-June, because that is when she takes a quick breather from te...

“Through the portals of silence, the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.” – Paramahansa Yogananda Determined to read the books that have been on my shelves for years, I am reading my way through Robert Lawrence Smith's Quake...

Books Falling I believe in that books fall off our shelves when we need to read them. Especially those books we have owned for years and never get around to reading and then finally they appear with divine purpose and clarity. It was that way for ...

"If you have known how to compose your life, you have accomplished a great deal more than the man who knows how to compose a book. All other things - to reign, to hoard, to build - are, at most, inconsiderable props and appendages. The great and glor...