The Mindful Bard: The Greatest Show on Mars by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 25 2014-06-20 Album: The Greatest Show on Mars Artist: Clothesline Revival “Never known to have performed before any live audiences on Earth, Clothesline Revival received an exclusive invitation to join an interplanetary circus on a mission to become the first musicians from Earth to entertain Martian colonists.” – from Clothesline Revival’s official website Imagine you’re one of the new Martian colonists. A childhood dream of adventure, or perhaps a longing to escape the madness of earth, has compelled you to set up homesteading … Continue reading Weird America at its Beautiful Barnum-and-Bailey Best

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The Full Spectrum of Life in This Moment

June 18, 2014 wandawaterman@themindfulbard.com

In Conversation With Don Rosenthal, Part III by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 24 2014-06-13 “The primary cause of unhappiness is not the situation, but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral, which always is as it is.” – Eckhart Tolle “We move through the day with our mind almost continually occupied … While we are thus preoccupied with our thoughts, we are living like a person in a dream: walking through life in an unconscious and mechanical state. Within this dream, we … Continue reading The Full Spectrum of Life in This Moment

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An Eagle’s Eye View of the God in the Details

June 18, 2014June 18, 2014 wandawaterman@themindfulbard.com

The Mindful Bard: Anatomy of Clay by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine Volume 22 Issue 24 2014-06-13 Book: Anatomy of Clay Author: Gillian Sze “It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary.” – Anonymous Have you ever leafed through a stack of New Yorker issues just to check out what kind of poetry they publish? Did you conclude that the point was to be just as pointless as possible while still sounding eloquent and perceptive? If so, join the club. In spite of adoring everything else about The New Yorker, the Mindful Bard has often … Continue reading An Eagle’s Eye View of the God in the Details

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In Conversation With Don Rosenthal, Part II

June 7, 2014August 13, 2014 wandawaterman@themindfulbard.com

by Wanda Waterman The Voice Magazine, Volume 22 Issue 23 2014-06-06 “To open the closed heart one first focuses on oneself: releasing feelings of unworthiness, accepting that the heart is closed, putting space around judgments, and seeing oneself clearly and honestly.” – Don Rosenthal in Learning to Love Don and Martha Rosenthal are the authors of a number of books for couples, including Learning to Love, a marriage manual informed by their own experiences as a couple as well as their copious knowledge of psychology and spirituality. Don and Martha counsel couples in private practice and conduct weekend retreats in … Continue reading In Conversation With Don Rosenthal, Part II

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Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet

June 7, 2014 wandawaterman@themindfulbard.com

by Wanda Waterman Volume 22 Issue 23 2014-06-06 Book: Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet Author: Amara Lakhous “If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.” – W.I. Thomas and D.S. Thomas (the “Thomas theorem”) “Working as a journalist, I’ve come to understand that the reality we confront has neither value nor weight. It’s the imaginary that governs our actions, or, rather, reactions.” – Amara Lakhous, Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet Amara Lakhous was born and very well educated in Algiers, Algeria. He moved to Rome at the age of 25. What makes his contributions … Continue reading Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet