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Karen Hatzigeorgiou – The Art of Happiness

Excerpt from The Art of Happiness:
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“the art of happiness
keeps its balance
small comforts
are not the same as
converting the mysterious
while the wind is calling.
The real reward of any life
is to lick the platter clean.”

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Karen Hatzigeorgiou is an artist of many media and I found her altered book “The Art of Happiness” inspiring in many ways.  It [...]

July 11th, 2009 | Category: art, mixed media, paintings, paper, poetry, recycled art | One comment

from the fishouse

Stumbled upon a website called “From the Fishouse”, an audio archive of poems.
Here you can find brilliantly painted words from emerging poets and also hear the poet recite their own poetry.
I love poetry readings. Sometimes I get so lost in the voice that I feel I may have missed the message. Then [...]

July 31st, 2007 | Category: poetry | Leave a comment

educating peace

I came across a site called EPIC (Education for Peace in Iraq Center) which is an organization working for the human rights and humanitarian conditions of the Iraqi people. Having family in Iraq, this cause is dear to my heart.
By diligently working to seek new ways to end the conflict, EPIC has [...]

March 11th, 2007 | Category: peaceful world, poetry | One comment

the road to shambala

In 1973 the rock band Three Dog Night released a song called Shambala. I just heard it pop up again on an episode of the television series LOST.
The lyrics to the song were written by American poet Daniel Moore who became a Sufi Muslim in 1970 and now goes by the name Abd al-Hayy Moore.
What [...]

March 6th, 2007 | Category: about, music, poetry | Leave a comment