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At Peace by Susana Cabaço
Can you be at peace with yourself and at peace with life even when things are not as you like them to be or think they should be? Can you rest in your own beingness, which is peaceful by default, knowing that being is enough despite everything else? Can you…
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The Corona-cation Chronicles by Suzane Austin-Hill
April 2, 2020 When the isolation was no longer fun and the room-to-room marathon had been run, a party of eight escaped to a park and found rare somethings there. In the space between us – much more than six feet – we did liberating “Sound of Music” twirls. Although…
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Love and Discipline by Edward Ortiz
Lately, I have been reading too many news stories about an old man man exhibiting the following behaviors: frequent temper tantrums, angry outbursts and irritability, argumentativeness and defiance, destruction of property, serious rule violations, arguing with adults or refusing to comply with adults’ rules, being resentful or spiteful, often deliberately…
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Three practices that will improve our lives by J. Ré Crivello
Friday, you wake up and must write after having dinner the night before with some ceramics colleagues. And you see how House of the Dragon challenges us: What will I write about on a Friday? And you go on ruling things out: about the upcoming fall of the Sánchez government?,…
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Guru Nature is now out by Susana Cabaço
Today’s post doesn’t come with one message as usual, but with many—the mystical passages inspired by Nature’s rhythms, elements, and symbols that fill the pages of my new book. Guru Nature: Spiritual Insights, Lessons, and Guidance from the Natural World is now out. It invites you to reconnect with your…
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Author Interviews – Story Chat Digest Creator, poet and author, Marsha Ingrao, and a review
Meet Marsha Ingrao Marsha Ingrao is the creator of Story Chat Digest, an annual anthology derived from a series of stories and poems run on her blog, AlwaysWrite. Story Chat Digest is run as a friendly space for authors and poets to meeti and chat about the various contributions and…
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Hold on by Susana Cabaço
When environmental conditions go extreme, Nature considerately whispers to its children, “Hold on.” No tree, no animal, and certainly no human can control external factors. But each and every one of them can hold on—retreat, get quiet, and wait. Hold on until the severity passes—and it always does—so they can…
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Surviving (in liquid relationships) by J Ré Crivello
“Her voice was falsely cheerful. Paul didn’t like it. Neither the tone of her voice nor the restless look in her eyes. *I’m behaving badly*, that look said. It roused his caution and made him put his guard up” (p. 235, Stephen King, *Misery*) “And in *The portable Homeland* (2026),…
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Fallen angels by John Coyote
Fallen angels In the lair of the fallen angels. Old men talk of fleeing love, old war and missed faces. I joined the club at a young age. Bad decisions, dead brothers and greed in love made me turn old and cold. I was used-up and knew old man wisdom…
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P. D. James by Luisa Zambrotta
Phyllis Dorothy James, known professionally as P. D. James, (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014) was an English crime writer.She became famous for a series of detective novels whose protagonist is police commander and poet Adam Dalgliesh. According to her “What the detective story is about is not murder…
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The future? Or… present by J. Ré Crivello
“The idea we don’t articulate is how intimately our lives today are connected to people who haven’t even been born yet.” “Those things we don’t pay attention to, like plastic pens, cell phones, or computer parts that will become fossilized. In 2020, we surpassed a peak: there are more materials…
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1925 (04) How Did I Become a Masca (Witch)? By J Ré Crivello
The following is part of a book in preparation that I am writing about this period when my family stopped living in Italy in 1925. —J. Ré Crivello “In the folk tradition of Cuneo and throughout Iamonte (Italy), a woman did not become a masca through traditional witchcraft initiation rites…
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Author Interviews – Poet and writer, Michelle Ayon Navajas, and a review
Today, I am delighted to welcome best selling poet and writer, Michelle Ayon Navajas, as my August author guest on LatinosUSA. Michelle Ayon Navajas, is the editor of Hotel by Masticadores and is also one of the editors of LatinosUSA. Michelle has established her own publishing house which you can…
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Only gain by Susana Cabaço
The soul loses nothing in worldly loss; it always gains, whether the experience is humanly perceived as a loss or a gain. Given that the soul comes here to practically perceive the physical reality and uncover its own potential, all occurrences are a plus for its spiritual endeavor, even when…
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Travel: A Bowl of Rice by J. Ré Crivello
The bowl of rice can be white or take on the color of paella. It might be delivered to your table on a weekday as a side dish, or it might be served with onions fried in oil. Nothing will change if you give that smile you gave the waiter,…
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EYES & LIES by Mike Steeden
Geoffrey Chaucer 1343-25 – English poet and writerAs to today, my story is a tad more rude than the old days…so they say The affluent looking old man who only had one eye and a face like an orange turnip told lies day and night. As to his friends, he…
