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peace, love, happiness & understanding 4/4/24
Martha Graham THE OPEN ROAD peace, love, happiness & understanding April 4, 2024 Creativity! Kim sent some helpful words on the subject of creativity by Martha Graham, a couple of poems, and an essay: Letter from Martha Graham to Agnes deMille There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And…
Find out more »Bibliophiles Unanimous!: the Open Road Literary Salon
¡Beloved Bibliophiles! On Sunday, April 7th, at 3 p.m. PDT, our theme will be Mysteries! What are your favorite mystery stories and novels? Here's the Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87614013058 I hope to see you there! peace, love & happiness Johnny We had a rare LIVE (not Zoom) event on Saturday, March 23rd, at Ross Island Grocery & Cafe: the book launch for Johnny Stallings' first book--The Nonstop Love-In: poems, stories, essays…
Find out more »Open Road Meditation & Mindfulness Archive
Avalokiteśvara from the Ajanta Caves Open Road Meditation & Mindfulness Community In September of 2020, Open Road board members--Bill Faricy, Deborah Buchanan and Katie Radditz--along with Howard Thoresen and I, inaugurated the Open Road Meditation & Mindfulness Community, for people who live in prison and for those who don't. If you are interested in meditation and mindfulness, you are welcome to join us. We are not promoting any religious tradition. We will just be sharing our…
Find out more »Friends of Walt: An Archive
painting of Walt Whitman by Rick Bartow The origin of Friends of Walt comes from an email that Kim Stafford sent me after our annual reading of "Song of Myself" to celebrate Walt Whitman's Birthday on May 29th, 2022. Here's what he wrote: Following our shining session today, would you like to invite the group to send you citations for Whitmania, to be compiled and shared with everyone: title and author of biographies, the URL for the Billy…
Find out more »peace, love, happiness & understanding Archive
painting by Charles Erickson Dear Friends of the Open Road Click on titles in Bold to go to any issue of our peace, love, happiness & understanding journal. The list of issues is followed by an Index, which is a guide to each issue's content. On this web page there is also a search box into which you can type a word or phrase, and find what you are looking for in that way. Issue #1 Spring Equinox (picture of…
Find out more »The Nonstop Love-In by Johnny Stallings
Dear Friends! I'm excited to be publishing my first book! The Nonstop Love-In: poems, stories, essays & other writings is published by Open Road Press. There will be a Book Reading & Signing at Belmont Books, 3415 SE Belmont, on April 17th at 7 pm. I hope to see you there! You can buy a copy of the book from Belmont Books. Multnomah County Library has ordered 12 copies. You can place a hold now! You can order a…
Find out more »Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue 4/15/24
photo by Abe Green Open Road Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue April 15, 2024 Jude wrote this for the March issue: TOUCH THE EARTH “Walking is a form of touching the earth. We touch the earth with our feet, and we heal the earth, we heal ourselves, and we heal humankind. Whenever you have an extra five, ten, or fifteen minutes, enjoy walking. With every step it’s possible to bring healing and nourishment to our…
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peace, love, happiness & understanding 4/4/24
April 4 - May 1 -
Bibliophiles Unanimous!: the Open Road Literary Salon
April 15 - July 20 -
Open Road Meditation & Mindfulness Archive
April 15 - July 16 -
Friends of Walt: An Archive
April 15 - September 15 -
peace, love, happiness & understanding Archive
April 15 - September 27