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SUMMARY:Open Road Meditation & Mindfulness Archive
DESCRIPTION:Avalokiteśvara from the Ajanta Caves \n  \n  \nOpen Road Meditation & Mindfulness Community \n  \nIn 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. The idea of the Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue is to provide support and encouragement for your spiritual practice–that is\, whatever gives your life meaning. \n  \nWe are not promoting any religious tradition. We will just be sharing our thoughts\, experiences\, questions and friendship in order to support and encourage each other in living more peacefully and mindfully. To begin\, we will be using Your True Home by Thich Nhat Hanh as a jumping off point for dialogue. As we go along\, we will use other inspirational texts and poems\, along with everyone’s personal ruminations. \n  \nI will coordinate the writings of prison residents through the Open Road post office box\, and use email for everyone else. To begin\, everyone is invited to find one of the 365 meditations in Thich Nhat Hanh’s book that inspires you and write something in response to it. You can use other sources of inspiration as well. \n  \nOn the 15th of every month I will send out what I’ve collected from everyone to all the participants. You are free to respond to what other people write\, or just ponder it. \n  \nHere is the first Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue\, published on September 15\, 2020. \nHere’s the second Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue\, published on October 15\, 2020. \nHere’s the third Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue\, published on November 15\, 2020. \nHere’s the fourth Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue\, published on December 15\, 2020. \nHere’s the fifth Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue\, published on January 15\, 2021. \nHere’s the sixth Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue\, published on February 15\, 2021. \nHere’s the seventh Meditation & Mindfulness Dialogue\, published on March 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for April 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for May 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for June 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for July 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for August 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for September 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for October 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for November 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for December 15\, 2021. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for January 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for February 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for March 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for April 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for May 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for June 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for July 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for August 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for September 15\, 2022. \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for October 15\, 2022 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for November 15\, 2022 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for December 15\, 2022 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for January 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for February 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for March 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for April 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for May 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for June 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for July 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for August 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for September 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for October 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for November 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for December 15\, 2023 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for January 15\, 2024 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for February 15\, 2024 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for March 15\, 2024 \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for April 15\, 2024   \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for May 15\, 2024  \nMeditation & Mindfulness Dialogue for June 15\, 2024 \n  \nHere are two meditation texts:  \na talk on Beginner’s Mind by Shunryū Suzuki (1904-1971) \nthe earliest Zen text\, Hsin Hsin Ming\, by Seng Ts’an\, the Third Zen Patriarch (529-606 A.D.) \nIf you’d like to join our merry band\, email me and let me know. \n  \nJake was in segregation (solitary confinement) at Two Rivers prison when he wrote this: \n\n49 – What is a leaf?\n \nIs one of my favorites! In segregation we have paintings that are of different scenes. At first it was cool\, then I and others got over it. But since putting this wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh in perspective you see more than a painting. For it opens my eyes to the time\, the painter\, the painter’s years of art skills\, everything down to what makes paint…paint. There are so many miracles that came together to make these paintings! It’s amazing. Now I try to be mindful of what miracles come into place to make people I meet\, foods I eat. Being conscious of what had to come together to create your best friend or your favorite food gives you much more appreciation for how they come to be in your life .\n \nThank you for giving me a chance\, Johnny. I’m really working on myself. My goal is day by day. (Today be less ego-oriented.) Trying to not care who judges me for being me. Because that’s not my problem\, I am happy and peaceful. It’s been a sacrifice\, but as I’m learning sacrifice is the way to a peaceful life!\n \nPeace Love Happiness\n \n–Jake\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \nMay all people be happy. \nMay we live in love. \n  \n–Johnny Stallings \nExecutive Director\, The Open Road
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SUMMARY:¡Bardaphilia!  7/19-8/9
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n“All the world’s a stage\, and all the men and women merely players…”\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n  \n\n\n\nBardaphilia!  \n  \nIf you don’t already love Shakespeare\, this class will remedy that. And if you do…you know there’s nothing more fun than reading the plays and poems together with friends. Actor and director Johnny Stallings is the genial host. Bring copies of some of the plays—(optional). We will make up the “curriculum” as we go along. This is an Open Road event. You’re invited! \n  \n\n\nArtspace Room at Taborspace\, 5441 SE Belmont \nFriday evenings\, July 19th & 26th\, August 2nd & 9th: 7-9 pm \nsuggested donation $5 per class    \n\n  \nIf you have questions\, you can email me at: stallingsjohnny.com \n  \npeace\, love & poetry \n  \nJohnny \n 
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SUMMARY:peace\, love\, happiness & understanding Archive
DESCRIPTION:painting by Charles Erickson \n  \nDear Friends of the Open Road \n  \nClick 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. \n  \nOn 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. \n  \nIssue #1  Spring Equinox (picture of pansy) 3/19/20 \nIssue #2  Humor (images: cartoons by Gary Larson) 3/26/20 \nIssue #3  Some Poems  (image: Japanese picture of cherry tree) 4/2/20 \nIssue #4  Walt Whitman (image: painting of WW by Rick Bartow) 4/9/20 \nIssue #5   Rumi (edited by Prabu Muruganantham) (picture of flower) 4/16/20 \nIssue #6 Shakespeare (picture of young Johnny with Shakespeare sweatshirt) 4/23/20 \nIssue #7 Happiness (picture by Jan Steen: The Merry Family) 4/30/20 \nIssue #8  Ingersoll: Crimes Against Criminals (picture of Robert G. Ingersoll) 5/7/20 \nIssue #9  Compassion (picture of Einstein) 5/14/20 \nIssue #10 Love (picture of Hafiz) 5/21/20 \nIssue #11 Peaceable Kingdom (painting by Charles Erickson) 5/28/20 \nIssue #12  Meditation\, Dialogue & Study (Goya’s Sleep of Reason) 6/4/20 \nIssue #13 Black Lives Matter (image of George Floyd) 6/11/20 \nIssue #14 Mostly Poems (Blake image: When the morning stars sang together) 6/18/20 \nWith Issue #15\, peace\, love & happiness became peace\, love\, happiness & understanding. \nIssue #15 Ripple Effect (image of ripples in water) 6/25/20 \nIssue #16 Blake: Innocence and Experience (Laughing Song image) 7/2/20 \nIssue #17 Remembering Nick (picture of Nick Consoletti) 7/9/20 \nIssue #18 Kim Stafford Featured Poet (picture of Kim\, Hugo & Johnny) 7/16/20 \nIssue #19 Metaphors: Battle or Picnic?  (picture of Emerson) 7/23/20 \nIssue #20 Humor Issue (Gary Larson cartoon: Nerds in hell) 7/30/20 \nIssue #21  Culture that Nurtures (picture of Wisłowa Szymborska) 8/6/20 \nIssue #22 My mind started to blossom…  (picture of Aaron Gilbert as Toby Belch) 8/13/20 \nIssue #23 Poems\, Stories\, Letters\, Thoughts (picture of four actors from Midsummer Night’s Dream) 8/20/20 \nIssue #24 Meditation and Mindfulness (image of Avalokiteśvara from Ajanta) 8/27/20 \nIssue #25 Interview with Ashley Lucas (photos of Ashley and Jeff Sanders &  Joe Opyd with his mom\, Sharon Lemm\, and Aunt Andrea) 9/3/20 \nIssue #26 Paradise of Books (image of Don Quixote in his library by Gustave Doré) 9/10/20 \nIssue #27 Smoky (image of the Platters) 9/17/20 \nIssue #28 How Hippies May Still Save the World (image of Flora by Botticelli) 9/24/20 \nIssue #29 Gary Snyder and FOUR CHANGES (image of Gary Snyder) 10/1/20 \nIssue #30 The Golden World (image of glass of water) 10/8/20 \nIssue #31 Pollyanna (image of Mary Pickford) 10/15/20 \nIssue #32 Loving the Earth (image of sunrise from atop Big Mountain) 10/22/20 \nIssue #33 Gettysburg Addresses (image of Lord Buckley) 10/29/20 \nIssue #34 Gandhi  (image of Mahatman Gandhi) 11/5/20 \nIssue #35 Writings of Lonnie Glinski  (picture of Lonnie as Ophelia) 11/12/20 \nIssue #36 Freedom’s Firm Foundation (picture of Nitya\, Nancy & Peter O.) 11/19/20 \nIssue #37 Writing Poems (picture of Pablo Neruda & Matilde Urrutia) 11/26/20 \nStarting on November 26\, 2020\, peace\, love\, happiness & understanding went from being weekly to bi-weekly. \nIssue #38 Pictures (not words) 12/10/20 \nIssue #39 Poetry Corner (image of Mr. Natural watering the Tree of Possibilities) 12/24/20 \nIssue #40 Allegory of the Cave (image of Plato’s cave) 1/7/21 \nIssue #41 Loving Your Enemies (photo of Martin Luther King) 1/21/21 \nIssue #42 The Hill We Climb (screen shot of Amanda Gorman) 2/4/21 \nIssue #43 Valentine’s Day Special: Love Poems (image of Paolo and Francesca) 2/18/21 \nIssue #44 Harold and the Purple Crayon  (image from Harold and the Purple Crayon) 3/4/21 \nIssue #45 Spring Equinox (peace\, love\, happiness & understanding is one year old!)   (picture of Daphne odora) 3/18/21 \nIssue #46 Story Poems (picture of Aged Aged Man by John Tenniel) 4/1/21 \nIssue #47 Singer Come from Afar (picture of the cover of Kim Stafford’s book) 4/15/21 \nIssue #48 Bibliomania (picture of cover of Autobiography of a Yogi) 4/29/21 \nNo issues of peace\, love\, happiness & understanding in May (Mexico vacation) \nIssue #49 Wisława Szymborska Nobel Lecture (picture of Wisława Szymborska) 6/10/21 \nIssue #50  Johnny’s Imaginary TED Talk About Love (picture of sidewalk message: EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY) 6/24/21 \nIssue #51 Dreams of Better Worlds (pictures: 3 by Crumb of futures\, big orange splot\, Wague mural) 7/8/21 \nIssue #52 The Art of Happiness (picture of Slava Polunin) 7/22/21 \nIssue #53 The Three Questions (picture of Leo Tolstoy) 8/5/21 \nIssue #54 War: What is It Good For?  (picture: First and Last Day of Spring by Jonathan Winters) 8/19/21 \nIssue #55 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (picture of United Nations flag) 9/2/21 \nIssue #56 Another Humor Issue (picture of Mother Hubbard & her dog) 9/16/21 \nIssue #57 HEART! (picture of loteria card El Corazon) 9/30/21 \nIssue #58 Johnny’s Brief Guide to Ancient Greece (pictures of “The Death of Socrates” by David\, and a bust of Aeschylus) 10/14/21 \nIssue #59 Poems from the Last Five Days by Kim Stafford (photos taken at the beach by Kim) 10/28/21 \nIssue #60 Recipe for Living a Life Rich in Meaning (pictures of four bodhisattvas: Brenda Erickson\, Dick Willis\, Jude Russell & Jack Baird) 11/11/21 \nIssue #61 Goldfinches! (picture of Goldfinch) 11/25/21 \nIssue #62 A Christmas Carol (picture of Scrooge beholding the Spirit of Christmas Present) 12/9/21 \nIssue #63 Dream of a Ridiculous Man (picture of Goya’s sleeper dreaming Peaceable Kingdom) 12/23/21 \nIssue #64 Brother West (photo of Cornel West) 1/6/22 \nIssue #65 Big Sky Country  (picture of Glacier National Park) 1/20/22 \nNo issues of peace\, love\, happiness & understanding for most of February (Mexico vacation) \nIssue #66 Big Sky Country Part Two (picture of bee on lilac blossom) 2/24/22 \nIssue #67 What Are Some of Your Favorite Books? (picture of the cover of Borgel) 3/10/22 \nIssue #68 War & Peace & Spring! (photos of plum tree and Ukrainian refugees) 3/24/22 \nIssue #69 Carl Sandburg (picture of Potato Face Blind Man) 4/7/22 \nIssue #70 A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Prison (picture of Bottom & Titania) 4/21/22 \nIssue #71 Some Poems (picture of sidewalk covered with cherry blossoms) 5/5/22 \nIssue #72 Poems By Women first page has Emily Dickinson; pictures of the other poets accompany their poems) 5/19/22 \nStarting in June of 2022\, peace\, love\, happiness & understanding went from bi-weekly to monthly\, coming out on the first Thursday of the month. \nIssue #73 Walt on my mind…and in my heart (painting of Walt Whitman by Rick Bartow) 6/2/22 \nIssue #74 Interview With Bryan Joyner (picture of Bryan Joyner) 7/7/22 \nIssue #75 Adventure Tales! (picture of Edith Mirante in Burma 8/4/22 \nIssue #76 William Blake (Blake’s painting “River of Life”) 9/1/22 \nIssue #77 Kate Brown on Clemency (picture of Governor Kate Brown) 10/6/22 \nIssue #78 R. H. Blyth (picture of R. H. Blyth)  12/1/22 \nIssue #79 Tender Buttons edited by Alex Tretbar (picture of Gertrude Stein)  1/5/23 \nIssue #80 Something That Changed the Way You See the World  (poster of “Song of Myself” by Rick Bartow)  2/2/23 \nIssue #81 Favorite Poems (picture of a stone wall with a gate)  3/2/23 \nIssue #82 Favorite Films (picture of “The Rink”)  4/6/23 \nIssue #83  Books That Changed the Way You See the World (picture of For Your Own Good)  5/4/23  \nIssue #84  Peace (picture of young man putting a flower in the barrel of a gun)  6/1/23 \nIssue #85  Visions of Utopia & Paradise (picture of The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine)  8/3/23 \nIssue #86  peace\, love\, happiness & understanding (picture of Rocky Hutchinson with eight puppies)  9/7/23 \nIssue #87  Black Elk’s Vision (picture of Black Elk)  10/5/23 \nIssue #88  The War Prayer (picture of Peanuts cartoon)  11/2/23 \nIssue #89  A Letter from Rocky and Lots of Poems (picture of Lake Grinnell in Glacier National Park)  12/7/23 \nIssue #90  Celebration! (picture of Alan & Christine\, with Santa and dogs & cat)  1/4/24 \nIssue #91 What has enlarged your world? (picture of Nancy in Guanajuato)  2/1/24  \nIssue #92  Abundance! (picture of Mexican ceramic Tree of World Literature)  3/7/24 \nIssue #93  Creativity! (picture of Martha Graham)  4/4/24 \nIssue #94  Mostly Poems (picture of cow weathervane\, with bird perched on it)   5/2/24 \n Issue #95  Blogs and Other Stuff (picture of “The Young Hare” by Dürer)  6/6/24 \nIssue #96  What Stories Do You Tell Yourself to Cheer Yourself Up?   7/4/24   \nIssue #97  Poems\, Letters & Other Writings  (picture by Saul Steinberg) 8/1/24 \n  \n  \n  \nOpen Road peace\, love\, happiness & understanding Newsletter Index \n  \nIssue #1 Spring Equinox (picture of pansy) 3/19/20 \nAlan Watts quote:  “there is nothing wrong with you at all” \nSerenity Prayer \nMetta Prayer \nNight Rain at Kuang-k’ou  Yang Wan-li  (Deb) \nEagle Poem  Joy Harjo  (Katie Radditz) \nFoolish Young Flowering Tree   Kim Stafford \nTrees in the Wind   Kim Stafford \n  \nIssue #2  Humor (images: cartoons by Gary Larson) 3/26/20 \njokes from Johnny\, Kim\, Ken\, Bill & Will \n  \nIssue #3 Some Poems (image: Japanese picture of cherry tree) 4/2/20 \nOut breath  Ryokan \nCelestial Laws  Walt Whitman \nsweet spring    e.e. cummings \na lover and his lass   Shakespeare \nFrom the Train   Kim Stafford \nDennis Takes Us to the Old Trees   Kim Stafford \nI Ask for Silence   Pablo Neruda \n  \nIssue #4 Walt Whitman (image: painting of WW by Rick Bartow) 4/9/20 \nMiracles by Walt Whitman \nlink to Marfa Interview with Johnny about “Song of Myself” \nTeach Me to See\, Walt! by Johnny \nSong of Myself brief quotes: “seeing\, hearing\, feeling are miracles…this head more than churches\, bibles and all the creeds\,” “Whoever degrades another…\,” “Dazzling and tremendous…\,” “In all people I see myself…\,” “This minute that comes to me…\,” “Each moment and whatever happens…\,” “Why should I wish to see God…in the faces of men and women I see God…” \nlink to whitmanalabama.com from Perrin Kerns \nKim Stafford’s story about his dad and Walt Whitman \n  \nIssue #5 Rumi (edited by Prabu Muruganantham) (picture of flower) 4/16/20 \nA Just Finishing Candle \nThe Sunrise Ruby \nPrabu’s poem: “You too are flowering” \nWhere Everything is Music \nRumi story from Kim \nGuest House from Johnny \nNancy Yeilding’s essay “Two Ways of Talking” \nBill Hughes’ thoughts and poem “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing…” \n  \nIssue #6 Shakespeare (picture of young Johnny with Shakespeare sweatshirt) 4/23/20 \nsome thoughts \nAll the world’s a stage \neat no onions \nlost all my mirth…what a piece of work is a man \nsermons in stones\, and good in everything. \nAlexander died…might they not stop a beer barrel? \nOur revels now are ended \nThe quality of mercy \nMy bounty is boundless as the sea\,/ My love as deep… \nA knave\, a rascal\, an eater of broken meats… \nLet me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments \n  \nIssue #7 Happiness (picture by Jan Steen: The Merry Family) 4/30/20 \nyogi tea tags \nThe baby beats the nurse…   Shax \ncommentary on The Merry Family: link to Rijksmuseum \nHappiness     Carl Sandburg \na few words about Twelfth Night: “Care’s an enemy to life” \nGary Larson cartoon about the absent Bluebird of Happiness \nlink to Louis Armstrong’s “A Lot of Living to Do” \naphorism: Happiness is the art of not making yourself miserable. \naphorism: The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled.   Blake \n“The Salutation”    Thomas Traherne \nBeginning My Studies    Walt Whitman \nShirt of a Happy Man story \nfrom Writing for Happiness  by Kim Stafford—to be with happ is to be happ-y \n“Gift”  Miłosz \n“Happiness”   Jane Kenyon \n  \nIssue #8 Ingersoll: Crimes Against Criminals (picture of Robert G. Ingersoll) 5/7/20 \nCrimes Against Criminals \n“in this world hate never yet dispelled hate…” \n  \nIssue #9 Compassion (Picture of Einstein)  5/14/20 \nEinstein quote \nGregory Boyle on Compassion and Kinship \nlinks to Homeboy Industries and to TED talk \nPlease Call Me By My True Names \n  \nIssue #10 Love (picture of Hafiz)  5/21/20 \nThe Subject Tonight is Love   Hafiz \nThe Noble Ninefold Path   Johnny \nResponse to Ninefold Path Essay  Shad Alexander \n  \nIssue #11 Peaceable Kingdom  (painting by Charles Erickson)   5/28/20 \nPenn’s letter to the Indians \nThomas Traherne: “Your enjoyment of the world is never right…” \nKindness by Naomi Shihab Nye \nWhitman: “Whoever walks a furlong without sympathy…others will punctually come forever and ever” \n  \nIssue #12 Meditation\, Dialogue & Study  (Goya’s Sleep of Reason) 6/4/20 \nsome thoughts on depression: letter to E. about meditation\, dialogue & study \n  \nIssue #13 Black Lives Matter  (image of George Floyd)   6/11/20 \nquote from Martin Luther King:  …black revolution more than a struggle for rights of Negroes \nsome thoughts by me and quotes from:  \nKing: “love is creative understanding goodwill for all men”  \nBuddha: “In this world\, hate never yet dispelled hate…”  \n1 John 4:8 \nBlake: Love to faults is always blind \nmore Blake quotes: \nEvery thing that lives is Holy \nChildren of a future age… \nArt Degraded Imagination Denied War Governed the Nations \nmore thoughts from me \nrecommendation for Between the World and Me\, The New Jim Crow & film “13th” \nexcerpt from King’s sermon “Loving Your Enemies” \n  \nIssue #14 Mostly Poems (Blake image: When the morning stars sang together)  6/18/20 \nBlake quote: “The tree that moves some to tears of joy…” \nBuckminster Fuller photo & quote: “I always say to myself: What’s the most \nInmate Calls Home by Kim Stafford \npoems sent by Howard: \nLife-and-Death by Uchiyama Roshi \nIt Is I Who Must Begin by Václav Havel \nfrom Song of Myself: “I peruse manifold objects” & “Dazzling and tremendous” \n“A woman went to see her therapist…” by Johnny \n  \nIssue #15 Ripple Effect (image of ripples in water)   6/25/20 \n“If I can stop one heart from breaking…” by Emily Dickinson \nletter exchange on “the ripple effect” between Josh Underhill and me \n  \nIssue #16 Blake: Innocence and Experience (Laughing Song image) 7/2/20 \nsome thoughts on going from innocence to experience \nfour poems by William Blake: \nInfant Joy \nLaughing Song \nThe School Boy \nThe GARDEN of  LOVE \nWordsworth’s “Intimations of Immortality” (first third) \nquote from Hamlet: “I have of late\, but wherefore I know not\, lost all my mirth…” \n  \nIssue #17 Remembering Nick Picture of Nick Consoletti  7/9/20 \nCan I see another’s woe\, and not be in sorrow\, too…? \nLonnie’s letter \nsome thoughts about Nick by me \n  \nIssue #18 Kim Stafford Featured Poet (Picture of Kim and Johnny)   7/16/20 \nTo Be a Better Person essay by Kim Stafford \nDew & Honey poem by Kim Stafford \nTwo Rivers poem by Kim Stafford \n“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves…” Sylvia Plath \n“This is what you shall do…” Walt Whitman \nlink to talk by Cornel West on “What It Means to Be Human” \nKim’s aphorisms on poetry \n  \nIssue #19 Metaphors: Battle or Picnic?  (picture of Emerson)   7/23/20 \nEmerson quote about metaphors \nBattle or Picnic? essay by Johnny \nSifter by Naomi Shihab Nye \nThe Panther by Rilke \nThere Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale   \nlink to Sacred Economics video featuring Charles Eisenstein \n  \nIssue #20 Humor Issue   (Gary Larson cartoon: Nerds in hell) 7/30/20 \ntwo Gary Larson cartoons \none cartoon by Lars Kenseth \nlots of jokes \nlink to video of people in India singing and dancing on top of a train \n  \nIssue #21 Culture that Nurtures (picture of Wisłowa Szymborska)   8/6/20 \nConsolation by Wisłowa Szymborska \nThe Tuft of Flowers by Robert Frost \nThe Fact of Forgiveness by Kim Stafford \n  \nIssue #22 My mind started to blossom… (picture of Aaron Gilbert as Toby Belch) 8/13/20 \nLetter about Love in prison by Aaron Gilbert \nPoetry Class at the Women’s Prison by Kim Stafford \nA Blessing by James Wright \n  \nIssue #23 Poems\, Stories\, Letters\, Thoughts (picture of four actors from Midsummer Night’s Dream)   8/20/20 \nPractical Illusions by Kim Stafford \nKim Stafford\, Ace Reporter poem by Johnny Stallings \nKatie Radditz’s story about sitting next to Aaron Gilbert’s mom at play \nmy letter to Howard about how men honoring me in the dialogue circle \nWhitman quote: “This minute that comes to me over the past decillions… \nmy thoughts about Kim’s poem \nThomas Traherne quote: “There was never a tutor that did professly teach Felicity” \n  \nIssue #24  Meditation and Mindfulness (image of Avalokiteśvara from Ajanta) 8/27/20 \nKingdom of God is within you Bible quote (Luke 17: 20-21) \nintro to Open Road Meditation & Mindfulness Project by me \nThomas Traherne: “Our blessedness\, like His\, is infinite…” \nPico Iyer about seeing the world more clearly and loving it more deeply \nWalt: “There is that in me—I do not know what it is—but I know it is in me… \njohnnypoem: “when you see how simple it is to be happy…” \nnotice of Deborah’s publication of three chapbooks \nDeborah’s poem Early Morning Hours \nWendell Berry: Ask the world to reveal its quietude… \nHuxley quote: “Unrestrained and indiscriminate talk…” \nThich Nhat Hanh: “Mindfulness is when you are truly there…” \nFinding Deep Calm story about Gheed in Palestine by Kim  \nInvitation to join Meditation & Mindfulness Project by me \nHafiz on perfection: “the movement of your breath…the beating of our hearts” \n  \nIssue #25 Interview with Ashley Lucas (photos of Ashley and Jeff Sanders &  Joe Opyd with his mom\, Sharon Lemm\, and Aunt Andrea) 9/3/20 \nInterview with Ashley \nlinks for ordering her books\, link to Open Hearts Open Minds\, link to Open Road \n  \nIssue #26 Paradise of Books (image of Don Quixote in his library by Gustave Doré) 9/10/20 \nthoughts on books and bibliophilia \ncatalog of animals by Borges \nthoughts on books that changed my inner landscape \nSonnet #1 by Joshua Barnes \nSheltering in Place #12 by Doug Marx \nYARD SALE by Nick Eldredge \n  \nIssue #27 Smoky (image of the Platters) 9/17/20 \nIt’s smoky: links to “Meeting in Smoky Places\,” “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes\,” and Smokey Robinson \nInmate Fights Fire by Kim Stafford \nSecond Chance by Randall Brown \nSmokey the Bear Sutra by Gary Snyder \nlink to Smokey the Bear song with Eddy Arnold \n  \nIssue #28  How Hippies May Still Save the World (image of Flora by Botticelli) 9/24/20 \nHow Hippies May Still Save the World essay by Johnny \nlyrics to “Love’s In Need of Love Today” by Stevie Wonder & link to song \nsome lyrics from “What the World Needs Now” and link to song \nlyrics to “All You Need Is Love”  and link to song \nlyrics to “Get Together” and link to song \nlyrics to “San Francisco” and link to song \n  \nIssue #29 Gary Snyder and FOUR CHANGES (image of Gary Snyder) 10/1/20 \nHoly Smokes by Kim Stafford \nFOUR CHANGES  by Gary Snyder & link to Gary Snyder reading it \n  \nIssue #30 The Golden World (image of glass of water) 10/8/20 \nThe Golden World essay by Johnny \n  \nIssue #31 Pollyanna (image of Mary Pickford) 10/15/20 \nThe Glad Game from Pollyanna \nlink to Reasons to Be Cheerful website \nlink to talk by David Korten \nlink to talk by Charles Eisenstein \nlink to talk by Thich Nhat Hanh \nOur Next Big Thing by Kim Stafford \nGary Larson Hell cartoon: “We’re just not reaching that guy” \n  \nIssue #32 Loving the Earth (image of sunrise from atop Big Mountain) 10/22/20 \nFor Papatūānuku – Mother Earth by Nadine Anne Hura \nA note of gratitude from Nadine \nlink to an essay by Nadine Anne Hura: “I’m Reclaiming the Name I Lost” \n“I peruse manifold objects…” brief passage from “Song of Myself” \nWild Geese by Mary Oliver \nEarth Dweller by William Stafford & link to him reading the poem \nPied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins \n“Weary of those who come with words…” by Tomas Tranströmer \n“My Work is Loving the World” by Mary Oliver \n  \nIssue #33 Gettysburg Addresses (image of Lord Buckley) 10/29/20 \nRevising Genesis by Kim Stafford \nFor All by Gary Snyder \nThe Color of Eyes by Deborah Buchanan \nEverything is Going to Be All Right by Derek Mahon \nInversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins \nAbe & I by Kim Stafford \nThe Gettysburg Address by Lord Buckley and link to him performing it \nThe Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln \n  \nIssue #34 Gandhi  (picture of Mahatman Gandhi) 11/5/20 \nNitya’s encounter with Gandhi from Love and Blessings \nsome thoughts about having to be right by Johnny \nbrief Gandhi bio \nGandhi quotes \n  \nIssue #35 Writings of Lonnie Glinski (picture of Lonnie as Ophelia) 11/12/20 \nexcerpt from letter from Lonnie \nlyrics to Somebody Famous by Lonnie \nexcerpt from letter from Lonnie \nlyrics to Bloom Where You Landed by Lonnie \nlyrics to And They Just Smile by Lonnie \nlyrics to It Ain’t Me by Lonnie \n  \nIssue #36 Freedom’s Firm Foundation (picture of Nitya\, Nancy & Peter O.) 11/19/20 \n Finding Freedom’s Firm Foundation essay by Nancy Yeilding \n  \nIssue #37 Writing Poems (picture of Pablo Neruda & Matilde Urrutia) 11/26/20 \ni thank You God by e. e. cummings \nPoetry by Pablo Neruda \nWriting as Ritual essay by Kim Stafford \nMy Sheltering Sky by Kim Stafford \nPoetry Doctor by Kim Stafford \n  \nIssue #38 Pictures (not words) 12/10/20 \n drawings by: Saul Steinberg\, Franciszka Themerson\, Hakuin\, Leonard Cohen\, B. Kliban\, Ralph Steadman\, José Guadalupe Posada\, Hokusai\, Pablo Picasso\, Paul Klee\, John Lennon\, Amadeo Modigliani\, Rick Bartow\, James Thurber\, John Tenniel\, Charles Erickson\, Maurice Sendak\, Mark Alan Stamaty\, Andrew Larkin\, Hugo Anaya\, Jake Scharbach\, Peter Schumann\, William Blake\, Dr. Seuss\, Rube Goldberg\, Winsor McKay\, Gary Larson \nlink to OK Go:” This Too Shall Pass” Rube Goldberg Machine video \n  \nIssue #39 Poetry Corner (image of Mr. Natural watering the Tree of Possibilities) 12/23/20 \n“I believe the soggy clods…” quote from Walt \n“Since water still flows…” by Li Po \nFound Kin by Jeff Kuehner \nElemental Thoughts by Joshua Barnes \nTHE MEANING OF THIS by Alex Tretbar \nHindsight (2020) by Joshua Barnes \nThink Twice by Kim Stafford \nYour Sovereignty by Kim Stafford \nWinter Feet by Esther Elizabeth \nDaily Bread by Esther Elizabeth \nWhat Issa Heard by David Budbill \n  \nIssue #40 Allegory of the Cave (image of Plato’s cave) 1/7/21 \nWonder by Thomas Traherne \nDUST by Alex Tretbar \nAllegory of the Cave by Plato \n  \nIssue #41 Loving Your Enemies (photo of Martin Luther King) 1/21/21 \nLoving Your Enemies sermon by Martin Luther King\, November 17\, 1957 \n  \nIssue #42 The Hill We Climb (screen shot of Amanda Gorman) 2/4/21 \nThe Hill We Climb poem by Amanda Gorman \nlink to Amanda Gorman reciting The Hill We Climb \nPrabu’s thoughts on Tolstoy’s novel Resurrection \n  \nIssue #43 Valentine’s Day Special: Love Poems (image of Paolo and Francesca) 2/18/21 \nkissing rocks and throwing them story \nLove to faults is always blind by William Blake \nThe lunatic\, the lover\, and the poet by Shakespeare \ni carry your heart by e. e. cummings \nI Loved You Before I Was Born by Li-Young Lee \nThe Song of Wandering Aengus by W. B. Yeats \nThis Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams \nWhat We’re Doing Here by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer \nI Knew a Woman by Theodore Roethke \nlink to Offenbach song Barcarolle sung by Elīna Garanča & Anna Netrebko \nSonnet VII by Pablo Neruda \nRe-Statement of Romance by Wallace Stevens (not in prison version) \nWe Two\, How Long We Were Fool’d \nRomeo & Juliet: “If I profane with my unworthiest hand…” sonnet \nJuliet: “My bounty is as boundless as the sea” \n  \nIssue #44 Harold and the Purple Crayon (image from Harold and the Purple Crayon) 3/4/21 \nsome thoughts on Harold and the Purple Crayon \nTenniel’s illustration to A Mad Tea Party \n“A Mad Tea Party” from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll \n  \nIssue #45 Spring Equinox (peace\, love\, happiness & understanding is one year old!)  (picture of Daphne odora) 3/18/21 \nA Color of the Sky by Tony Hoagland \nOregon Dawn in Spite of the News by Kim Stafford \nIn Just-/spring by e. e. cummings \nO sweet spontaneous by e. e. cummings \nSpring\, the sweete spring\, is the yeres pleasant King by Thomas Nashe \nSpring by Gerard Manley Hopkins \nA Thin Sliver at the Door (prose) by Deborah Buchanan \nCome Spring by Dorianne Laux \nA Light exists in Spring by Emily Dickinson \nSpring comes on the World –  by Emily Dickinson \nIssa: \nLook at this world even its \nGrasshoppers in the chilly breeze \nSpring rain:  \nBasho: \nI don’t know \nSpring! \nChiyo-ni: \nthe pheasant sings- \nI forget \nsquatting \nto be in a world \nThank you’s to contributors to “peace\, love\, happiness & understanding” \n  \nIssue #46 Story Poems (picture of Aged Aged Man by John Tenniel) 4/1/21 \nAnd the people stayed home by Kitty O’Meara \nNirvana by Charles Bukowski \nAbou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt \nThe Thee Hermits by William Butler Yeats \nThree Angels by Bob Dylan \nA Story That Could Be True by William Stafford \nThe Aged Aged Man by Lewis Carroll \n  \nIssue #47 Singer Come from Afar (picture of the cover of Kim Stafford’s book) 4/15/21 \nPoetry in Prison by Kim Stafford \nBlue Brick from the Midwest by Kim Stafford \nAsk Me by William Stafford \nGod made a little Gentian – by Emily Dickinson \nThe Divine Image by William Blake \nWaxwings by Robert Francis \nMeditations 47 & 48 from the Second Century of Meditations by Thomas Traherne \n  \nIssue #48 Bibliomania (picture of cover of Autobiography of a Yogi) 4/29/21 \nBibliomania essay by Johnny \nProspero’s speech: “Our revels now are ended…” \n  \nNo issues of peace\, love\, happiness & understanding in May (Mexico vacation) \n  \nIssue #49 Wisława Szymborska Nobel Lecture (picture of Wisława Szymborska) 6/10/21 \nWisława Szymborska Nobel Lecture \n  \nIssue #50  Johnny’s Imaginary TED Talk About Love (picture of sidewalk message: EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY) 6/24/21 \nJohnny’s imaginary TED talk about love \nFor the Bird Singing Before Dawn by Kim Stafford \nLetter to the Mothers and Fathers of Palestine and Israel by Charles Busch \nlink to Fields of Peace website \n  \nIssue #51 Dreams of Better Worlds (pictures: 3 by Crumb of futures\, big orange splot\, Wague mural) 7/8/21 \nParadise essay by Johnny \n  \nIssue #52 The Art of Happiness (picture of Slava Polunin) 7/22/21 \nSlava Polunin’s TED talk \n  \nIssue #53 The Three Questions (picture of Leo Tolstoy) 8/5/21 \nThe Three Questions (story) \n  \nIssue #54 War: What is It Good For? (picture: First and Last Day of Spring by Jonathan Winters) 8/19/21 \nquotes from Ten Commandments\, Dhammapada\, Hermann Göring\, and the song “War” by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong \nMichel Deforge’s response to Kim Stafford’s poem “Old Glory’s New Red\, Black\, and Blue” \nsome thoughts by Johnny on Pacifism \nKim Stafford’s poem “Old Glory’s New Red\, Black\, and Blue” \n  \nIssue #55 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (picture of United Nations flag) 9/2/21 \nThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights \n  \nIssue #56 Another Humor Issue (picture of Mother Hubbard & her dog) 9/16/21 \nOld Mother Hubbard Nursery Rhyme \nlots of jokes \n  \nIssue #57 HEART! (picture of loteria card El Corazon) 9/30/21 \nPascal quote: The heart has its reasons… \nRocky’s essay: HEART! \nwake up\, heart! by Johnny Stallings \nLove Therapy in My Second Home by Alokananda Roy \n  \nIssue #58 Johnny’s Brief Guide to Ancient Greece (pictures of “The Death of Socrates” by David\, and a bust of Aeschylus) 10/14/21 \nEssay by Johnny about “Suppliants” project and Greek Philosophy & Drama \n  \nIssue #59  Poems from the Last Five Days by Kim Stafford (photos taken at the beach by Kim) 10/28/21 \nfive poems with commentaries by Kim Stafford \n  \nIssue #60 Recipe for Living a Life Rich in Meaning (pictures of four bodhisattvas: Brenda Erickson\, Dick Willis\, Jude Russell & Jack Baird) 11/11/21 \n“Beginning My Studies” by Walt Whitman \n“My Recipe for Living a Life Rich in Meaning” by Johnny \n  \nIssue #61 Goldfinches! (picture of Goldfinch) 11/25/21 \nJohnny’s theater piece: “Goldfinches!” \n  \nIssue #62 A Christmas Carol (picture of Scrooge beholding the Spirit of Christmas Present) 12/9/21 \nAbridged version of “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens (for reading aloud) \n  \nIssue #63 Dream of a Ridiculous Man (picture of Goya’s sleeper dreaming Peaceable Kingdom) 12/23/21 \nJohnny’s version of Dostoevsky’s short story “Dream of a Ridiculous Man” \n  \nIssue #64 Brother West (photo of Cornel West) 1/6/22 \nCornell West on “What It Means to Be Human” \n  \nIssue #65 Big Sky Country  (picture of Glacier National Park) 1/20/22 \nPhotos and Texts by Abe Green\, including: \nDew & Honey by Kim Stafford \nRain by Neall Ryon \nquote from Love and Blessings \n quote from Dhammapada: “All that we are arises with our thoughts…” \n(Mexico vacation) \n  \nIssue #66 Big Sky Country Part Two (picture of bee on lilac blossom) 2/24/22 \nPhotos and Texts by Abe Green\, including: \nWhere the bee sucks\, there suck I \nBirth is not the beginning/ Death is not the end quote from Chuang Tzu \nThe smallest sprout shows there is really no death quote from Walt Whitman \nSo here I sit by my campfire… by Abe Green \nIt’s the job of wise people… by Johnny Stallings \nthoughts on Earth’s inhabitants by Abe Green \nLessons from a Tree by Kim Stafford \nThe Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry \nthoughts on broken objects by Abe Green \n  \nIssue #67 What Are Some of Your Favorite Books? (picture of the cover of Borgel) 3/10/22 \nSome favorite books from Kim Stafford\, Patrick Walsh\, Ken Margolis\, Deborah Buchanan\, Jude Russell\, Bill Faricy\, Will Hornyak\, Jeffrey Sher and Johnny Stallings. \n  \nIssue #68 War & Peace & Spring! (photos of plum tree and Ukrainian refugees) 3/24/22 \nlink to Spring Equinox issue of peace\, love\, happiness & understanding (3/18/21) \nPlum Trees in War by Kim Stafford \nThomas Bray’s favorite books \nVernal Sentiment by Theodore Roethke \nKatie’s favorite books \nOn Pilgrimage by Czeslaw Milosz \nAt the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border by William Stafford \na favorite book of Michel Deforge \nfavorite books of Brandon Gillespie and his thoughts on Spring and War \nlet’s pretend by Johnny Stallings \nMy Foolproof Plan for World Peace by Johnny Stallings \nlink to Ukraine meditation group \n  \nIssue #69 Carl Sandburg (picture of Potato Face Blind Man) 4/7/22 \nDefinitions of Poetry by Carl Sandburg \nThe Potato Face Blind Man Who Lost the Diamond Rabbit on His Gold Accordion by Carl Sandburg \nHow the Potato Face Blind Man Enjoyed Himself on a Fine Spring Morning by Carl Sandburg \nThe Right to Grief by Carl Sandburg \nHappiness by Carl Sandburg \nlink to Those Darn Accordions playing Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire by Jimi Hendrix \nlink to Flaco Jimenez\, Mingo Saldivar\, Pete Ybarra\, David Farias & David Lee Garza \nlink to Clifton Chenier playing Tighten Up \n  \nIssue #70 A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Prison (picture of Bottom & Titania) 4/21/22 \nlink to National Poetry Month on poets.org website \nlink to Shakespeare issue of “peace\, love\, happiness & understanding” 4/23/20 \nplug for upcoming Bibliophiles!\, and link to Keith on the Mysteries of Shakespeare’s Sonnets \nannouncement of Portland premiere of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Prison \nthe history of prison dialogues and plays: how A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Prison came to be \n  \nIssue #71 Some Poems (picture of sidewalk covered with cherry blossoms) 5/5/22 \nA Question by Joshua Barnes \nFlickering by Joshua Barnes \nthoughts on akrasia by Alex Tretbar \na blue little flower is nodding by Alex Tretbar \nthe rumor by Nick Eldredge \nHow to Be an Old Man of Some Scant Worth by Kim Stafford \nearth the door Orpheus goes through by Deborah Buchanan \nGhost River by Deborah Buchanan \nUkraine by Mark Alter \nmy sangha by Johnny Stallings \namateur dilettante by Johnny Stallings \n  \nIssue #72 Poems By Women (first page has Emily Dickinson; pictures of the other poets accompany their poems) 5/19/22 \nThe Infinite a sudden Guest by Emily Dickinson \nA Light exists in Spring by Emily Dickinson \nO Taste and See by Denise Levertov \nfrom My Wisdom by Naomi Shihab Nye \nHappiness by Jane Kenyon \nfrom Reconciliation: A Prayer by Joy Harjo \nAt Blackwater Pond by Mary Oliver \nMiracle Fair by Wisława Szymborska \nThe Award by Alice Walker \nDespite the Hunger by Alice Walker \n  \nIssue #73 Walt on my mind…and in my heart (painting of Walt Whitman by Rick Bartow) 6/2/22 \nCelebration of Walt Whitman’s 203rd birthday \nlink to April 9\, 2020 issue of peace\, love & happiness\, celebrating Walt Whitman \nlink to new Friends of Walt Archive on the Open Road website \nEmerson’s letter to Whitman \nexcerpt from Emerson’s essay “The Poet” \nlink to May 7\, 2020 issue of peace\, love & happiness\, which featured Ingersoll’s essay “Crimes Against Criminals” \nAddress at the Funeral of Walt Whitman by Robert G. Ingersoll (March 30\, 1892) \n  \nIssue #74 Interview With Bryan Joyner (picture of Bryan Joyner) 7/7/22 \nExcerpts from CRCI Studio Interview with Bryan Joyner and link to YouTube video of interview \n  \nIssue #75 Adventure Tales! (picture of Edith Mirante in Burma 8/4/22 \nTales of Adventure from: \nEdith Mirante \nKim Stafford \nNick Eldredge \nJohnny Stallings \nAbe Green \n  \nIssue #76 William Blake (Blake’s painting “River of Life”) 9/1/22 \nLove to faults is always blind… \nArt Degraded\, Imagination Denied\, War Governed the Nations \nChildren of the future Age… \nThe Garden of Love \nTo see a World in a Grain of Sand… \naphorisms from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell \nfrom the Preface to Blake’s poem “Milton” \nThe Little Vagabond \nfrom The Marriage of Heaven and Hell \nEnion’s lament from The Four Zoas \nfrom Visions of the Last Judgment \n  \nIssue #77 Kate Brown on Clemency (picture of Governor Kate Brown) 10/6/22 \nAmanda Waldroupe’s Guardian article about Oregon Governor Kate Brown’s historic use of clemency \n  \nIssue #78 R. H. Blyth (picture of R. H. Blyth) (12/1/22) \nEssay by Howard Thoresen on R. H. Blyth \n  \nIssue #79 Tender Buttons edited by Alex Tretbar (picture of Gertrude Stein) (1/5/23) \nEssay “A Carafe in Bb Major” by Alex Tretbar \n“Special Features” poem by Alex Tretbar \n“no comas” by Irene Cooper \n“the buttons are as tender as we make them” by Laura Winberry \nExcerpt from the song “Tender Buttons” by Trish Keenan of the band Broadcast \n“Stein’s Enigmas” essay by Kim Stafford \n“Lone Pine in Scotland” poem by Kim Stafford \n  \nIssue #80 Something That Changed the Way You See the World  (poster of “Song of Myself” by Rick Bartow) (2/2/23)  \n“In Memory of My Literary Godmother” by Will Hornyak \n“Coincidence” by Kim Stafford \nStory about visiting Sam Alley in hospice by Charles Erickson \nWalt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” by Johnny Stallings \nThe family I choose by Rocky Hutchinson \n“Five Tanka Written Upon Spending the Night in a New Apartment” by Alex Tretbar \n“Leftover Rainwater” by Elizabeth Domike \n  \nIssue #81 Favorite Poems (picture of a stone wall with a gate) (3/2/23)  \n“Vernal Sentiment” by Theodore Roethke (Jeffrey Sher) \n“After an Illness\, Walking the Dog” by Jane Kenyon (Elizabeth Domike) \n“I thought of all the doors that had opened and closed… by Jo Harjo (Deborah Buchanan) \n“A Meadow” by Czeslaw Milosz (Deborah Buchanan) \n“The Waking” by Theodore Roethke (Dave Duncan) \n“Easter\, 1916” by William Butler Yeats (Mark Danley) \n“Together\, We all go out Under the Cypress Trees in the Chou Family Burial-Grounds” by T’ao Ch’ien (Katie Radditz) \n“Reading an Anthology of Chinese Poems of the Sung Dynasty\, I pause to Admire the Length and Clarity of their Titles” by Billy Collins (Katie Radditz) \n“May I never by complete…” by Chuck Palahniuk (Jeff Kuehner) \n“Afternoon” by Max Ritvo (Alex Tretbar) \n“Valentine” by Ken Hunt (Kim Stafford) \n“Mending Wall” by Robert Frost (Scott Teitsworth) \n“The Salutation” by Thomas Traherne (Johnny Stallings) \nfrom “I Corinthians\, Chapter 13” by Paul the Apostle (Ken Margolis) \n  \nIssue #82 Favorite Films (picture of “The Rink”) (4/6/23)  \n“In the Beginning” and “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (Kim Stafford) \n“Ted Lasso\,” “Wings of Desire\,” “Moonrise Kingdom\,” “The Big Lebowski\,” “Hail\, Caesar!\,” “Bliss\,” “Brazil\,” “The Kingdom of the Fairies” & “The Rink” (Johnny Stallings) \n“The Count of Monte Cristo” (Brandon Gillespie) \nBook: This is Happiness by Niall Williams; Film: “The Mission” (Will Hornyak) \nWill sent a poem he wrote: “Why Baseball Matters” \n“The Rules of the Game” & “The Rider” (Ken Margolis) \n“Wings of Desire” (Elizabeth Domike) \n“Heaven Knows\, Mr. Allison” & “Heimat” (Katie Radditz) \n“The Crying Game” & “The Lives of Others” (Jude Russell) \n“Withnail & I” (Alex Tretbar) \n“Andrei Rublev” & “Tree of Life” (Prabu Muruganantham) \n  \nIssue #83  Books That Changed the Way You See the World (picture of For Your Own Good) (5/4/23)  \nThe Man Who Loved Children  (Ken Margolis) \nThe Skull Mantra  (Elizabeth Domike) \nHope for the Flowers\, Johnny Got His Gun & The Power of Myth  (Nicole Rush) \nThe Mahabharata  (Charles Erickson) \nGreen Mansions  (Katie Radditz) \nNicholas and Alexandra\, Peter the Great\, Catherine the Great\, American Prometheus & The Orientalist  (Jude Russell) \nFor Your Own Good\, Woman and Nature\, “Factory” & “Song of Myself”  (Johnny Stallings) \nFor Your Own Good  (Todd Oleson) \nMan’s Search for Meaning\, Writing My Wrongs\, The Master Plan\, My Grandmother’s Hands\, Homecoming & The Body Keeps the Score  (Michel Deforge) \n  \nIssue #84  Peace (picture of young man putting a flower in the barrel of a gun) (6/1/23) \nPoems by Deborah Buchanan: “Early Morning Hours\,” “The Only Now\,” “Unexpected\,” “The Tree in the Universe” \nThoughts on peace\, including poem “My Foolproof Plan for World Peace” by Johnny Stallings \n“Bolinas” by Tom Clark\, submitted by Alex Tretbar \nThoughts on peace by Rocky Hutchinson \n“Siddhartha’s prayer” by Bill Faricy \n“Surrounded” by Elizabeth Domike \n“Peace Tree” by Kim Stafford \n“Peace Within\, Peace Without”: thoughts on peace by Jude Russell \nThoughts on peace by Ken Margolis \n  \nIssue #85  Visions of Utopia & Paradise (picture of The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine) (8/3/23) \nQuote from Slava Polunin \nGonzalo’s utopia from The Tempest \nExcerpt from interview with Stratis Panourios about utopia and The Tempest in prison \nJohnny’s thoughts on utopia & paradise \nPoem by Tasos Leivaditis\, translated from the Greek by Spiros Chrisovitsianos \n“Borrowed Aura” poem by Kim Stafford \n“Words for Cup and Water” poem by Elizabeth Domike \n“What an Angel Said” poem by Alex Tretbar \n“Perfect Day” poem by Johnny Stallings \nQuote from Alan Watts \n  \nIssue #86  peace\, love\, happiness & understanding (picture of Rocky Hutchinson with eight puppies) (9/7/23) \nquote from Ai Weiwei \n“YARKHOTO” poem by Ai Qing \nletter from Abe Green \nletter from Rocky Hutchinson \n“Prairie Radio” poem by Kim Stafford \nexcerpt from “The Final Frontier” essay by Brian Doyle \n  \nIssue #87  Black Elk’s Vision (picture of Black Elk) (10/5/23) \npassages from Black Elk Speaks by Black Elk & John G. Neihardt \n“All My Relations” by Kim Stafford \n“My House is the Red Earth” by Joy Harjo \n“Grandfathers Whispering” by John Trudell \n“MOTHER EARTH: HER WHALES” by Gary Snyder \npassage from The Sacred Pipe by Black Elk & Joseph Epes Brown \n  \nIssue #88  The War Prayer (picture of Peanuts cartoon) (11/2/23) \n“Other Laws of War” by Kim Stafford \n“The War Prayer” by Mark Twain \nstory about New York City teacher Sari Beth Rosenberg from CNN \nsome thoughts by Johnny Stallings \n“Please Call Me by My True Names” by Thich Nhat Hanh  \n  \nIssue #89  Letters from Rocky and Lots of Poems (picture of Lake Grinnell in Glacier National Park) (12/7/23) \nLetters from Rocky \n“Gate A-4\,” a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye \nKurt Vonnegut quote about doing things because you enjoy them \n“Driving to the Headlands on the 23rd of December\,” poem by Gail Lester \n“Water Song\,” poem by Kim Stafford \nvideo of starling murmuration \n“Honesty\,” poem by Elizabeth Domike \npoem by Alex Tretbar \nsome thoughts by Johnny Stallings\, with Dhammapada quote \n  \nIssue #90  Celebration! (picture of Alan & Christine\, with Santa and dogs & cat) (1/4/24)  \nsome thoughts on celebration by Johnny  \n“I am with you” poem by Kim Stafford  \n“The Three Wise Men” poem by Will Hornyak \n  \nIssue #91 What has enlarged your world? (picture of Nancy in Guanajuato) (2/1/24)  \nThe Key to Sweden by Kim Stafford  \nAlex Tretbar recommends In Search of Lost Time  \nJohnny Stallings’ thoughts on the question “What has enlarged your world?” \nElizabeth Domike’s thoughts on the question “What has enlarged your world?” \nKatie Radditz’s thoughts on the question “What has enlarged your world?” \n  \nIssue #92  Abundance! (picture of Mexican ceramic Tree of World Literature) (3/7/24) \nThoughts on Abundance by Johnny\, including passages from King Lear\, Ulysses & “Song of Myself”   \n“Some Tides” poem by Will Hornyak   \nPreface to The Lagniappe by Kim Stafford   \npassage from “Last Prayer” essay by Brian Doyle \n  \nIssue #93  Creativity! (picture of Martha Graham) (4/4/24) \nletter by Martha Graham about creativity \n“Wild Visioning” poem by Kim Stafford \n“How to Make a Poem” poem by Kim Stafford \n“Creativity” essay by Kim Stafford about Naomi Shihab Nye’s essay “Maintenance” \nquotes from William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway sent by Keith Scales \n“The Choice” poem by W. B. Yeats sent by Keith Scales \n“My Process of Creativity” essay by Deborah Buchanan\, including three of her poems: \n“Her Gaze Never Drops” \n“white orchid” \n“Retroactive Prayers” \ntwo ancient Mexican poems sent by Andy Larkin: \n“Here through art I shall live forever…” \n“The Artist” \n“Sisters” essay by Elizabeth Domike \nfour short poems by Johnny Stallings: \n“The trick of a poem is:” \n“i want to go to the place where poems come from” \n“the unwritten poem” \n“if i could put into words what i see out this window” \n  \nIssue #94  Mostly Poems (picture of cow weathervane\, with bird perched on it)  (5/2/24) \n“Remember” poem by Joy Harjo \n“Birthing Your Secret Self” poem by Kim Stafford \n“Not So Much” poem by Elizabeth Domike \n“MAD” poem by Brandon Lee Roy \nsome thoughts from Rocky Hutchinson \n“We Are Seven” poem by William Wordsworth \n  \nIssue #95  Blogs and Other Stuff (picture of “The Young Hare” by Dürer) (6/6/24)  \n“The Province of Clocks” poem by Alex Tretbar \nquote from Isaac Bashevis Singer about the wisdom that older people have \n“About Those Web Logs (Blogs)” essay by Elizabeth Domike \nsome thoughts by Johnny about “peace\, love\, happiness & understanding” and Walt Whitman \n  \nIssue #96  What Stories Do You Tell Yourself to Cheer Yourself Up?  7/4/24) \nJohnny’s thoughts on the stories he tells to cheer himself up  \nlink to a “Seasons Greetings” video by J Kahn   \n“The Summer Day” poem by Mary Oliver   \n“A Translation Project for Peace” and the poem “A Proclamation for Peace” by Kim Stafford   \nquote from Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks   \n“Love the Butcher Bird Lurks Everywhere” poem by William Stafford   \n“Gift” poem by Czesław Miłosz \n  \nIssue #97  Poems\, Letters & Other Writings  (picture by Saul Steinberg) 8/1/24 \n“I put on my glasses” poem by John Brehm \n“Walking Through a Wall” prose poem by Louis Jenkins   \nJ Kahn writes about “Marcel the Shell With Shoes”   \nJohnny responds to what J wrote   \nlyrics to “That Feel” by Tom Waits  \n “Nirvana” poem by Charles Bukowski   \nletter from Rocky Hutchinson   \nletter from Michel Deforge   \nJude writes about finding peace\, love\, happiness & understanding   \nKatie shared Gary Snyder’s poem: “I Went Into the Maverick Bar” \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
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DESCRIPTION:  \nTHE OPEN ROAD \npeace\, love\, happiness & understanding \n  \nAugust 1\, 2024 \n  \n        I put on my glasses \nto see the fog \n         more clearly \n  \n—John Brehm \n* \n  \nWalking Through a Wall \n  \nUnlike flying or astral projection\, walking through walls is a totally earth-related craft\, but a lot more interesting than pot making or driftwood lamps. I got started at a picnic up in Bowstring in the northern part of the state. A fellow walked through a brick wall right there in the park. I said\, ‘Say\, I want to try that.’ Stone walls are best\, then brick and wood. Wooden walls with fiberglass insulation and steel doors aren’t so good. They won’t hurt you. If your wall walking is done properly\, both you and the wall are left intact. It is just that they aren’t pleasant somehow. The worst things are wire fences\, maybe it’s the molecular structure of the alloy or just the amount of give in a fence\, I don’t know\, but I’ve torn my jacket and lost my hat in a lot of fences. The best approach to a wall is\, first\, two hands placed flat against the surface; it’s a matter of concentration and just the right pressure. You will feel the dry\, cool inner wall with your fingers\, then there is a moment of total darkness before you step through on the other side. \n  \n—Louis Jenkins \n* \n  \nWhat did the zen master say to the hot dog vender? \nMake me one with everything. \n  \nI was reminded of that joke because of the ending of a stop-action animated film we just watched\, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On\, about a one inch snail who has lost his family. It was sweet\, funny\, odd\, and unexpectedly touching. \n  \nBut I thought you’d especially like this excerpt from the end of the script\, in which Marcel is sitting on a window sill\, the window is open a crack\, and a breeze is blowing past him: \n  \nThe wind blows through Marcel’s shell\, creating a LOW PLAINTIVE HUM. \nMARCEL: Can you hear it? That’s it. That’s going through my shell.  \nWIDE ON THE ROOM  \nIt’s a normal laundry room. But in this moment\, in this afternoon light\, in this breeze\, we feel something transcendent.  \nMARCEL (V.O.): It connected me\, I felt\, to everything. Because if I wasn’t there the sound would never exist. I felt like everything was in pieces but when I stood there\, suddenly we were one large instrument. I like to go there a lot. Because it reminds me that I’m not just one separate piece rattling around in this place\, but that I’m part of a whole. And I truly enjoy the sound of myself connected to everything.  \nMarcel sits on an eraser\, looking out the window. His shell HUMS with the wind.  \nCUT TO BLACK  \n  \n—J Kahn \n* \n  \nI replied to J in an email: \n  \nThanks\, J. \n  \nSounds like my kind of movie. \n  \nWith the ending they are trying to say something very simple\, which is difficult to put into words–and is the most important thing in the world. \n  \nIn Act 3 of Our Town\, Emily feels that feeling and is brokenhearted that other people aren’t feeling it. \n  \nI don’t know if it is what Tom Waits is talking about in this song\, but the song is very evocative of something\, in any case: \n  \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-c5L_45_gA \n  \nThat Feel \n  \nWell there’s one thing you can’t lose \nIt’s that feel \nYour pants\, your shirt\, your shoes \nBut not that feel \nYou can throw it out in the rain \nYou can whip it like a dog \nYou can chop it down like an old dead tree \nYou can always see it \nWhen you’re coming into town \nOnce you hang it on the wall \nYou can never take it down \n  \nBut there’s one thing you can’t lose \nAnd it’s that feel \nYou can pawn your watch and chain \nBut not that feel \nIt always comes and finds you \nIt will always hear you cry \nI cross my wooden leg \nAnd I swear on my glass eye \nIt will never leave you high and dry \nNever leave you loose \nIt’s harder to get rid of than tattoos \n  \nBut there’s one thing you can’t do \nIs lose that feel \nYou can throw it off a bridge \nYou can lose it in the fire \nYou can leave it at the altar \nBut it will make you out a liar \nYou can fall down in the street \nYou can leave it in the lurch \nWell you say that it’s gospel \nBut I know that it’s only church \n  \nAnd there’s one thing you can’t lose \nAnd it’s that feel \nIt’s that feel \n  \n–Tom Waits \n  \nAnd then there’s this poem\, which was in the April 1\, 2021 issue of peace\, love\, happiness & understanding. It’s good enough to share again: \n  \nNirvana \n  \nnot much chance\, \ncompletely cut loose from \npurpose\, \nhe was a young man \nriding a bus \nthrough North Carolina \non the way to somewhere \nand it began to snow \nand the bus stopped  \nat a little cafe \nin the hills \nand the passengers  \nentered. \nhe sat at the counter \nwith the others\, \nhe ordered and the  \nfood arrived. \nthe meal was \nparticularly \ngood  \nand the \ncoffee. \nthe waitress was  \nunlike the women \nhe had \nknown. \nshe was unaffected\, \nthere was a natural \nhumor which came \nfrom her. \nthe fry cook said \ncrazy things. \nthe dishwasher. \nin back\, \nlaughed\, a good \nclean \npleasant \nlaugh. \nthe young man watched \nthe snow through the \nwindows. \nhe wanted to stay \nin that cafe \nforever. \nthe curious feeling \nswam through him \nthat everything  \nwas \nbeautiful \nthere\, \nthat it would always \nstay beautiful \nthere. \nthen the bus driver \ntold the passengers \nthat it was time \nto board. \nthe young man \nthought\, I’ll just sit \nhere\, I’ll just stay \nhere. \nbut then \nhe rose and followed \nthe others into the \nbus. \nhe found his seat \nand looked at the cafe \nthrough the bus \nwindow. \nthen the bus moved \noff\, down a curve\, \ndownward\, out of \nthe hills. \nthe young man  \nlooked straight  \nforward. \nhe heard the other \npassengers \nspeaking  \nof other things\, \nor they were \nreading \nor \nattempting to \nsleep. \nthey had not  \nnoticed  \nthe \nmagic. \nthe young man \nput his head to \none side\, \nclosed his \neyes\, \npretended to \nsleep. \nthere was nothing \nelse to do- \njust to listen to the \nsound of the \nengine\, \nthe sound of the  \ntires  \nin the \nsnow. \n  \n–Charles Bukowski \n  \npeace\, love & that feeling \n  \nJohnny \n* \n  \n6-29-24 \n  \nDear Johnny\, \n  \nIt’s a beautiful Saturday afternoon & my work is finished for the day. My mind is always full of thoughts of life outside the walls of prison these days\, all of them good. It sometimes occurs to me that my past life feels like it was just a dream & that I’ve never been out of prison. I’m sure that one day my whole life will seem like one long dream. Who’s to say that it’s not just that? \n  \nI had a bunch of flowers left over from the plots & I asked if I could place them along the window sills here on my new unit. I was given permission to do so. Now the whole front of H Unit is covered in bright-colored flowers & I’ve gotten a lot of positive comments! It feels good to make things beautiful here. What I’ve done with plants & flowers\, Johnny\, you’ve done with people in and out of prison. Once I’m out\, my plan is to do what you’ve done\, plant seeds in people and help them to reclaim their lives. Well…we will see what happens once I’m out. Maybe a few friends & a good job & happiness in a simple life would be more my speed right now. \n  \n7-1-24 \n  \nHere is something nice that I’ve been thinking about for the letters we all share. Being in a cell lets me have personal time to think and write. \n  \nGood things are what I need to rent space in my head. My waking life is full of dreams that come to pass. Never again will I take for granted the world that is waiting beyond the walls\, razor wire & glass. I try to bring the beauty of the world outside in here. \n  \n7-9-24 \n  \nThe way we all think and express how we feel about the kindness we see and share with each other in the group letters we compile for me is sweet as honey dripping into my soul. We are on the path to the core of the golden world\, all of us are the shining ones helping others to find this world as well. \n  \nI love the Mary Oliver poem that Ms. Jill Littlewood shared with us called “The Summer Day”! And to you\, Ms. Littlewood\, I must say… \n  \nI do not know who made the swan or black bear\, or the grasshopper\, or you\, or me. What I do know is that if all of my days were like the one summer day in this poem\, it in itself would be bliss. Most of my days are spent in a greenhouse and I do have grasshoppers. I even have a rock chuck who eats my kale! My prayers are to life & love & joy and friends. I speak them to the morning sun and to my coffee. With my one wild and precious life I simply plan to be content. \n  \nHarvesting saffron in the summer morning sun was a gift today. Most of the time these days it does not even feel like prison to me anymore.  \n  \nMy mind is always on what it will be like to have a different scale of freedom in this world…. My perception of freedom is I’m sure quite different than most. \n  \nWell\, I love you Johnny & will talk to you soon. \n  \nGood things Always \nRocky \n* \n  \nJune 23\, 2024 \n  \nJohnny\, \n  \nThank you for the copy of Every Day\, Holy Day. I really appreciate your doing this for me. Life at OSCI goes well. I’ve been here over 30 days now; still settling into my routine\, but much here is differently-same. (More of a reasonable and calm state\, yet still a carceral environment with a few “toughs” to keep things interesting.) I find I’m exposed to far fewer people here. It’s not just a smaller population\, but each unit is more isolated than it seemed at TRCI\, including overlapping at meals and pill-line. Each keeps to one’s own “people” or unit. All-in-all\, it’s much nicer here! \n  \nTopic: Joy. Moments come when the heart dances in the light. So much more than the experience of fun\, or even happiness\, joy erupts when the inner sphere scintillates in its completeness. An experience touches us to the depths of our souls\, and in that moment we are graced with a vision—if only fleetingly—of the flawless wholeness and perfection of all. Then the heart fills and flows over\, even amid the brokenness of the world. \n  \nWeek’s mantra: Mouth filled with laughter\, ears with shouts of joy. \n  \nPractice: Step away from your busyness and savor several moments every day; feel the joy that is available to you.  —from Every Day\, Holy Day by Alan Morinis \n  \n“Heart dances in the light…joy erupts when the inner sphere scintillates in its completeness.” Such an image! To touch the “flawless wholeness and perfection of it all.” (I struggle today with RA [Rheumatoid Arthritis] stiffness and pain\, in addition to allergy congestion.) The step back; the step to smell the roses; it’s developing the awareness of life’s variegated moments as they pass. Some as “happy little clouds.” Others pendulous with precipitation\, yet to be deposited on earth. No matter my opinion of the moment—good\, bad\, etc.—moments for experiencing joy abound. I have but to develop my awareness. \n  \n—Michel Deforge \n* \n  \nPeace Love Happiness and Understanding… \n  \n…can be hard to come by in this blistering hot\, suffocating weather.  \n  \nI have been angry at the weather: Whoever heard of ‘heat domes’ until a couple of years ago? Whoever needed ‘cooling shelters’ until a few years ago? The heat wave would cool naturally in a few days—-well\, not anymore.  So I’m mad at Republicans\, corporations\, anybody who calls climate disasters ‘natural’\, etc. etc.  \n  \nBut then it boils down (haha) to me\, personally\, of course. Instead of enjoying my coveted 5-7 a.m. reading and coffee time\, I have to go out at 5 a.m. to water my gardens\, put shade covers on the hydrangeas\, do whatever garden work I need to do before the heat hits again. Or\, most aggravating of all (poor me)\, I have to get a bike ride in at that time and finish before it hits 80 degrees at 9 a.m.! That ‘poor me’ should not be in parentheses; this is serious stuff. \n  \nSo with that merry attitude\, I hopped on the bike yesterday at 6 a.m. It was 58 degrees\, and felt…deliciously cool!  Well\, that’s not gonna last\, I growled. But it was\, in fact\, deliciously cool\, and fresh. And with cool and fresh I breathed in the almost tangible fragrance…of green. The emerald green of grass-filled meadows. The nearby meadows of one hundred lovely sheep\, all browsing heads down munching on the meadow. I love those sheep. ‘Hi sheep!\,’ I called\, as I always do. A few of them looked up\, and I could swear they nodded at me. But how can they be enjoying themselves with those hot\, wool coats on?\, I grimaced. It felt good to have other creatures to commiserate with\, even though the sheep didn’t appear to realize they were miserable. \n  \nAnd then…and then…the sun rose from behind Bald Butte and bathed the fields in gold. It backlit the patches of Timothy hay and the nodding heads of wheat in a shimmering light. Golden wheat\, sky blue chicory\, pearly pink sweet peas lined the road. \n  \nThe birds exalted in the sunrise—-the soft staccato of the mourning doves\, warbling meadow larks\, the chirping and twirping of all\, cheering the arrival of the sun. Before I could stop\, I found myself chirping and twirping and cheering this heavenly morning along with all the other creatures.  \n  \n—Jude Russell \n* \n  \nThis poem was published in Gary Snyder’s book Turtle Island\, in 1969–a time when America was in a great divide of culture\, politics\, generations.  A time of war\, protests. The poem is like a timely marker\, to engage in creating a more peaceful world.  \n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\nI Went into the Maverick Bar\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nI went into the Maverick Bar   \nIn Farmington\, New Mexico.\nAnd drank double shots of bourbon\n                         backed with beer.\nMy long hair was tucked up under a cap\nI’d left the earring in the car.\n\n  \n\n\nTwo cowboys did horseplay\n                         by the pool tables\,\nA waitress asked us\n                         where are you from?\na country-and-western band began to play   \n“We don’t smoke Marijuana in Muskokie”   \nAnd with the next song\,\n                         a couple began to dance.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nThey held each other like in High School dances   \n                         in the fifties;\nI recalled when I worked in the woods\n                         and the bars of Madras\, Oregon.   \nThat short-haired joy and roughness—\n                         America—your stupidity.   \nI could almost love you again.\n\n\n  \n\nWe left—onto the freeway shoulders—\n                         under the tough old stars—\nIn the shadow of bluffs\n                         I came back to myself\,\nTo the real work\, to\n                         “What is to be done.”\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n— GARY SNYDER\n\n\n\n\n  \n\nNot surprisingly\, yet remarkably\, Johnny and my husband Bill recognized immediately the last line. It is the title of an 1863 novel written by  Nikolay Chernyshevsky. “Chernyshevsky’s novel\, far more than Marx’s Capital\, supplied the emotional dynamic that eventually went to make the Russian Revolution.” (Wikipedia)\n\n\n\n  \n\n–Katie Radditz
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