Mind and Sound with Practice

Today's Reading: From: Black Futures Far Beyond the Stars By Octavia Butler scholar, Dr. Ayana Jamieson.  The Octavia E Butler collection of literary manuscripts housed at the Huntington library is a vast archive comprising more than 8000 individually cataloged items that span Butler’s four decade long career. Octavia kept everything from grade school report cards, personal journals, letters,...

Today's Reading: How to be an Artist by Jerry Saltz "Imagination is more Important than Knowledge" - Einstein  The imagination is endless and always there. It's a lens, a tool that enlarges life, the animates your own Cambrian Ocean of the past, present and potential future forms. It adds to what Samuel Taylor Coolidge called "gorgeous nonsense", making unreal things real, and real things unreal. ...

Today's Reading: Most of us have lived two lives. Most of us have two lives the life we live, and the live life within us between the two stands resistance.  Have you ever brought home a treadmill and let it gather dust in the attic? Ever quit a diet a course of yoga and meditation practice? Have you ever bailed out on a call to embark upon a spiritual practice, dedicate yourself to a humanitarian...