Recent Read: What I found In A Thousand Towns

From Amazon: A beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishes. Dubbed by the New Yorker as “one of America’s very best singer-songwriters,” Dar Williams has made her career not in stadiums, but touring America’s small towns. She has played their venues, composed in their […]

Currently Reading: The Creation of Wing Chun

From Amazon: This book explores the social history of southern Chinese martial arts and their contemporary importance to local identity and narratives of resistance. Hong Kong’s Bruce Lee ushered the Chinese martial arts onto an international stage in the 1970s. Lee’s teacher, Ip Man, master of Wing Chun Kung Fu, has recently emerged as a highly […]

Recent Read: Fasting Can Save Your Life

From Amazon: The popular mistaken concept is that we cannot gain strength and build resistance unless we eat. So long as this illusion persists, thousands will go to premature graves. Food and nutrition are not synonymous. You are not nourished by food you eat, but in proportion to the amount you digest and assimilate. Through the […]

Recent Read: Mind of Clear Light

From Amazon: “Everyone dies, but no one is dead,” goes the Tibetan saying. It is with these words that Advice on Dyingtakes flight. Using a seventeenth-century poem written by a prominent scholar-practitioner, His Holiness the Dalai Lama draws from a wide range of traditions and beliefs to explore the stages we all go through when we die, […]

Take Action!

I received the following email from the Vermont Arts Council and wanted to share actions that people can take to stand up to the proposed elimination of National programs as well as take place in general advocacy campaigns at the State and National level. I used the Action Center myself and already received responses back […]