by Soph Myers-Kelley SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide is a force written by Cannupa Hanska Luger, a multidisciplinary artist who was born on the Standing Rock Reservation. He creates artistic poetry by altering the original texts of a field/survival guide from the 1970’s. Eden Pearlstein contributes through “redactive and lifted poetries,” with many pages of the original text mostly being blacked out. In a world where the rich have largely abandoned earth via space travel, the remaining poor and largely BIPOC inhabitants must make a pathway for survival. Surviva provides text with new and old Indigenous lessons intermingled, while… Read More
Guardians of Being – Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs & Cats
by Kevin Wolf This will be the shortest review that I’ve done (to date). Our pets, in particular our dogs and cats, can support our well-being and teach us to be well. That’s the premise of Guardians of Being – Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs & Cats written by Eckhart Tolle with Mutts comic strip illustrations by Patrick McDonnell. Pet therapy (aka, animal-assisted therapy) periodically appears as news stories or as part of the “feel-good” segment at the end of a newscast. We’ve learned about support animals for people suffering from PTSD or dogs visiting adults and children in hospitals…. Read More
Thinking About Thinking – Impossible Thoughts and Complicated Feelings
awaiting review


