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- Psaltery & Lyre’s New Site
- 123 Psaltery & Lyre: “Agricola Dreams of Flying” by J. Rose Lara
- 122 Psaltery & Lyre: “Communion: a love poem (a villanelle)” by Rachel Bollinger
- Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera
- 121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”
- Book Review: Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies
- 120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”
- Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
- Book Review: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?
- Book Review: LoterÃa Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives
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In God we Trust
This post is the fourth in a series of posts regarding religion, teenagers, and sexuality. You can see the... -
DRY Ink Photograph’s Project 365
Erika over at DRY Ink Photography keeps posting amazing pictures on Facebook as part of her Project 365 for this... -
Myo
I am a Sunday Painter, an I-storyteller, a blogger with a miniscule audience in a big, noisy world. Oftentimes, I... -
Valentine Crush
Valentine’s Day is for amore and what more perfectly embodies amore than a crush? Our friend Course Correction channels the... -
Happy ‘Day of Purity’, Everyone!
Over on the Guardian website, an article tracks the history of Valentine’s Day, from an ancient Roman festival of sexual... -
Playing Valentine
Legend has it that one of the roots of Valentine’s Day stem from a third century ban on marriage passed... -
Elaine Bradley: ‘Marching to the Sound of Her Own Drum’
For the most recent addition to the ‘Mormon Women Project’, Krisanne Hastings has interviewed Elaine Bradley, the drummer and backing... -
A Ride to Church – Nacogdoches
We moved to Nacogdoches (pronounced Nac-a-do-ches), a small town of 30,000, in 2008. On your way into town, a... -
Hosanna in the Highest
This week on ‘The Sanctuary’: a guest post from Andy. One way of characterising my spiritual journey over the last... -
Leaving
I’m in the process of choosing to leave. I’m almost there. There’s only a consideration of the cost. -
Black Swan
Today’s post is from a guest that we’ll call ‘White Cygnet’. I didn’t expect Black Swan to strike at my... -
Utah Panoramas
The Utah 3D project has a stunning set of panoramic views from different parts of Utah, accessible here. Some of... -
Bearing a Burden
It sounds corny, but by carrying around her belongings (two pairs of sturdy shoes, a box of office supplies, a... -
Joanna Brooks, Elder Oaks and the ‘Battle’ for ‘Religious Freedom’
In her post today, Joanna offers an insightful analysis of Elder Oaks’ recent address, in context of the larger campaign... -
The Trouble with Immaculate Contraception …
… is that there are always exceptions. Love to Jesus and Mo. -
What do a burger, a rare steak, and a gift all have in common?
A couple years ago, I sat in a Relief Society lesson at church about modesty. According to the rumor mill,... -
An Unlikely Escape
Is meditation ‘unChristian?” I am wholly unconvinced it is. I heard this story of death row inmates engaging... -
Blood of Eden – Part 1, Metaphor
Madame Curie engages with the Garden of Eden story over on Sapphic Soliloquies, exploring a role-reversal where Adam stands as... -
Detroit in Ruins: Urbex
I always love views into the unseen, decaying side of our urban existence. They speak to so much of our... -
Foolish Love
My husband likes to attribute a lot of our personality quirks to generational influences. In his eyes, we are deeply... -
Commercial Appeal
You may have been watching the Packers and Steelers last night, but since I don’t care for pro football and... -
C’mon, get happy
If you asked a Mormon what the purpose of this life is, you would probably get an explanation of the... -
Mirror
When the Universe ends-or re-begins?-how will we know? Who will write the history of it? And what is the basis... -
David Lynch: ‘Inland Empire’
‘What time is it?’ ‘It’s after midnight.’ In one of the key, echoed scenes of Inland Empire (2006), Laura Dern’s... -
Number 8
I gave him an out, saying something about maybe he’d already had lunch. “Yeah, thanks anyway, I’m not hungry, I... -
The Birds and the Bees, Mormon Style
Did you have a birds-and-the-bees talk when you were a kid? Mine occurred in fourth grade the night before they... -
The Golden Rule
[UPDATED] I am bound and cannot escape. I live in shadows and mists along the edges of that magical world of... -
Going Green
One of the most profound ideas from my big Christmas trip was how it affected my relationship with my wallet.... -
Scenes from Colorado
These photos were taken in Colorado by Rhonda Nasuta Swanson, a great photographer. You can see more of her... -
Smart-Asses Welcome
Today at the yoga studio we offered a day of full retreat complete with restorative yoga, meditation classes, clean vegetarian... -
Scapegoats
“Don’t blame it all on the devil” seems a reasonable enough point for mature minds. Maybe too obvious a point?... -
David Lynch: ‘Eraserhead’
The chicken on the table isn’t dead. The baby is perhaps a cow fetus. And Henry has to raise it... -
A Ride to Church: Atlanta
What is your Ride to Church like? Today we travel with Claire, through Atlanta, GA. -
Forbidden Fruit
So, I just finished reading an absolutely fascinating book called Forbidden Fruit: Sex and Religion in the Lives of American... -
Scenes from a Trip to Europe
Megan M. (one of Heather’s former students) is an orchestra director at a middle school in Texas, an amazing violinist,... -
Forget the Rules
I am moving to a new house this week and I’ve had a surprisingly hard time adjusting to that fact.... -
More Dread than Alive
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face.... -
Meditation 101
When I signed up for Yoga Teacher Training years ago, I was warned to expect a lot of sitting still... -
The Power and the Glory of Quirky Observation
I’ve recently been reminded of how some, more quirky observations can easily lead to delightful moments of wonder and a... -
Jars
From Dayna Patterson’s new book, ‘Loose Threads’. -
David Lynch: ‘Lost Highway’
If we are no longer what society tells us: then who are we? And how can we be trusted? -
Number 7
I caught a glimpse of him opening the bag and then dropping it rather unceremoniously on the ground. He... -
You can’t have two fun parents. That’s a carnival.
I love the show Modern Family. When it first started, I got some chain emails about how negative the show... -
Read More Adventurously
When was the last time you tried a book you expected to hate? -
Am I “Dreaming”?
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther... -
Faith – Worth the Risk?
*The following is a guest post by Dan Ron Kauk is one of the world’s most renowned rock climbers. A... -
Bake-ru
‘Bake’ isn’t just about changing, its about the charm that transforms everyday innocuous items into unrecognizable, uncooperative objects through unknown... -
The Spirit of the Beehive
Who could ever draw the lines that would separate the material world and the worlds of the imagination? For children,... -
What The Church is Doing Wrong
Something’s better than nothing…. or is it? -
Seminal Works – Exile in Guyville
But, there is so much more to Exile than sexual frankness. Exile is about finding your way in the third...