Poem of the Month ~ November 2011 I love the tumble of images this poet crafts. And I now love this word: doggerel. You, too, can write your very own doggerel-style mantra, and place it in front of your very own Alter to the Incomprehensible. Caveat: take none of this seriously, lest an ear falls [...]
I am. I am. How often do we make that statement? I am. What I’ve witnessed in my mere 43 years walking amongst my fellow humans, is that we all tend to use these words as a precursor to something else. Our state of being… I am excited. I am scared. I am sleepy. I’m [...]
Cartoon by David Sipress in The New Yorker From Dave Pollard’s Links for the Month of July on his blog ‘how to save the world’ Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
Guest post from Bonnie Lamont. Bonnie has posted poetry on the VTH in the past. She lives as a vibrant 70-something in Bend, Oregon. Letting Go, and the Slippery Slope to Truth…. Four years ago I began a determined quest for truth, in a bitterly cold and bleak winter month. I had designated this month [...]
“Daydreams and Diaries” is the top selling new release cancer book on Amazon and among the top 100 cancer books overall, including ebooks, hardback and paperbacks. I am stunned. –Tim Black Hot New Releases in Cancer The bestselling new & future releases in Cancer. (Learn more) 1. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend [...]
Dear Virtual Teahouse readers: Some of you read entries I posted entitled “Daydreams and Diaries.” Last week it was published as an ebook at Untreed Reads, a California publisher. The authors are Taylor and Tim Black and it is available on Amazon and other sights as well as the publisher’s website, Untreedreads.com. After I signed [...]
I don’t know much info about this video except that it touched me deeply this morning. Apparently this young man rescued this baby hummingbird and is raising it, caring for it very tenderly and teaching it what it needs to know to survive. Hope you enjoy it too. (Wish I could embed it, but that [...]
POEM OF THE MONTH ~ MAY 2011 May you know True Happiness, which wants only to bless you, unceasingly. Such grace does abound. It is already so, as you read these words. –Krayna The Return of the Prodigal Son (1773) by Pompeo Batoni HAPPINESS There’s just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns [...]
When I asked for a miracle, I did not think it would look like this. All these tears. Petals falling in spring. And this shedding, how naked I am beneath these layers of loss, how eroded I am from the inside. I am trying not to bargain for what I think I want. I am [...]
Why Keeping Little Girls Squeaky Clean Could Make Them Sick : Shots – Health News Blog : NPR Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post