Nourishing the Body of Imagination

Nourishing the Body of Imagination

In the To Be Soul, Do Soul book club, we’re experimenting with creative practices to help us explore different aspects of human (and non-human) experience. I’m sharing one of our experiments here, so you can play along if you wish. There are certain...
Imagination is Freedom

Imagination is Freedom

Imagination is freedom — it can transform the world. Here’s a wonderful story told by Robert Hass, about the power of imagination in action in one of the direst places in our collective history. “I’ll tell you a story that may or may not be...
Story-Making, World-Making

Story-Making, World-Making

As I sit, writing, at my desk on this November morning, the sky is just beginning to emerge in shades of pale gray, streaked with persimmon along the Eastern horizon. The story the season tells is written in the clouds that hover high above the bay – reflected...