This is the seminannual Able Muse Review (Print Edition) - Summer 2015 issue, Number 19. This issue continues the tradition of masterfully crafted poetry, fiction, essays, art & photography, and book reviews that have become synonymous with the Able Muse-online and in print. After more than a decade of online publishing excellence, Able Muse print edition maintains the superlative standard of the work presented all these years in the online edition, and, the Able Muse Anthology (Able Muse ...

Do you want to cultivate a regular meditation practice but struggle with staying present and focused? This collection of guided meditations is designed to reduce your stress and anxiety, promote emotional wellness, support whole-being health-and help you overcome those obstacles presented by your beautifully active mind. Learn to manage distractions, find stillness, and thrive in your practice. When you meditate, does your mind jump around like an energetic little...

Where do you get the inspiration to do your best work? What about when your well of creativity runs dryer than usual? What if there was a tool that could help you manifest clear vision, break loose of self-doubt, and inspire artistic brilliance? Welcome to “Meditations to Spark Your Creativity.” Led by some of Hay House’s most celebrated authors and teachers, these powerful guided meditations are specifically tailored for those who need to recharge their imaginations, tap ...

If you have a calling to write, but you're struggling with writer's block, these guided meditations are for you. Your words will effortlessly flow on the page in no time with these soothing meditations from Hay House authors and spiritual teachers like Kyle Gray and Dr. Wayne W. Dyer. Learn how to remove your fears and doubts around writing, open to your flow state, unblock stagnant energy, and relax your body and mind. Add these meditations to your writing practice today to help your crea...

Elegant, exuberant, and idiosyncratic, Acting My Age is a memoir and meditation by one of America’s most playful and inventive writers. In the words of Mary Mackey (The Jaguars That Prowl Our Dreams), “in Acting My Age, Thomas Farber gives us an unflinching, luminous, cleverly conceived meditation on his own mortality as well as on the extinction of the coral reefs, snow leopards, dolphins, and, ultimately the human species. Couching his observations in a series ...

From the Introduction- What really lasts? What remains of all our thoughts and efforts? What, more than anything else, do we hope and pray and wish with all our heart to always remember? And what do we – above all else, wish to be remembered for? The yearning, burning ecstatic heart-ache – that lifts us up and lets us down intermittently. Those are among the meaningful questions that follow us through our everyday; attempting to guide and inspire us, even when our awareness of that grace-f...

In the past year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unexpected literary success, been diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition, and been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. Now, in a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and political unrest, he must reckon with his biological mortality, the possibility of a literary afterlife, and the prospect of (unconventional) fatherhood in a city that might soon be under water.In prose that Jonatha...

PARTITA - THE HEARTRENDING NEW NOVEL FROM BARBARA KINGSOLVER - COMING OCTOBER 2026TWICE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONFROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORWith the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Barbara Kingsolver explores her trademark themes of family, community and the natural world. Defiant, funny and courageo...

The acclaimed author's memoir of life with an African grey parrot offers "a thoughtful and generous celebration of minds and bodies different from our own" ( Times Literary Supplement, UK).For thirty years, Brian Brett shared his office and his life with Tuco, a remarkable parrot given to asking questions such as "Whaddya know?" and announcing "Party time!" when guests showed up at Brett's farm. Although Brett bought Tuco on a whim, he gradually realized t...

"With elegant simplicity, Jean Houston shows you how to unleash the genius that lies in the depths of your being" (Deepak Chopra).Discover your own extraordinary gifts and live every day with passion.Now you can explore and expand your own unique possibilities on all four levels of your being—the physical, psychological, symbolic, and spiritual—using the practical and creative tools in this remarkable guide. In her most deeply transforming book to date, Houst...

Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed three boxes of ripening apricots, which lay, mountainous, on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no longer tend to. From this unexpected inheritance came stories spun like those of Scheherazade, who used her gifts as a storyteller to change her fate and her listener's heart.As she l...

This is the tenth anniversary edition of the classic bestseller for women seeking their sacred connections. Long ago before the patriarchal period, in many places on Earth, the Goddess was worshipped. Circle of Stones draws us into a meditative experience of the lost Feminine and creates a space for us to consider our present lives from the eyes of women's ancient culture and ritual. Incorporating the most ancient symbol of spirituality — the circle of stones — Duerk weaves stories, dreams...