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Introducing Parabola's Summer 2022 Issue: Ancestors - mailchi.mp/parabola/intro…

'Seeing in the Fog' is a powerful piece reflecting on homelessness and nature, written by Men's Shelter at 2100 Lakeside Volunteer Coordinator, Lydia Bailey. Lydia's piece was recently published in @ParabolaMAG's Spring 2022 issue. Read the full piece: parabola.org/2022/01/30/see…

“What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world.” —G. K. Chesterton From our Spring 2022 Issue, ‘Wonder’ ✨

NEW TODAY! Poetry from Betsy Cornwell: "Rich" "I will go to sleep tonight with only my own silence in my heart." atlasandalice.com/2021/04/01/poe…

Congratulations to Betsy Cornwell for THE CIRCUS ROSE making the 2021 #RainbowBookList Top 10 list for teen readers! @hmhbooks @HMHKids

Parabola story editor Betsy Cornwell on what the film HERSELF gets right about domestic violence and a single mother's search for home: patreon.com/posts/what-her…

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"All it takes is one blue rowboat tied to a buoy, and its reflection, and this moment for me to go remembering everything. Then a murmur, the sound of water lapping, the breeze snapping, and the way the… instagram.com/p/CEm2oZIBCNp/…

Suppose we did our work like the snow, quietly, quietly. leaving nothing out. —Wendell Berry from his collection Leavings, (Counterpoint, 2009) Photo: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 1858), Man Crossing a Bridge in the… instagram.com/p/CEK2VwehN0X/…

‘The Soul, Like The Moon’ The soul, like the moon, is new, and always new again. And I have seen the ocean continuously creating. Since I scoured my mind and my body, I too, Lalla am new, each moment new. My… instagram.com/p/CEFjfCzhX8U/…

How shall I live my life? How shall I love the one I Iove? Once in a while how tightly the clouds hold the stars in their arms. Then they let them go. —Mary Oliver Mary Oliver was an… instagram.com/p/CD7KB1wBLnH/…

Alone & together, a free #PDF of @ParabolaMAG 2012 edition parabola.org/2020/03/19/alo… #socialisolation

Please join Parabola editor Tracy Cochran for a virtual meditation and talk this coming Sunday, from 5:30- 6:30 pm ET. The livestream will be held using the Zoom platform: Meeting link:… instagram.com/p/B-DHJH9hlQ0/…

"The world is going to need to re-think its social contract. That social contract is the contract between human beings and the compassion they show towards one another. It isn’t going to be just about the money,… instagram.com/p/B97Bu2AhW7E/…

We at Parabola are offering a free PDF of our ALONE & TOGETHER issue from summer 2012, featuring this essay by Joshua Boettinger among many others, as our gift to you during these challenging times. Please send us a… instagram.com/p/B93q3sqhdia/…

These are challenging times for all of us. We at Parabola are offering a free PDF of our “Alone and Together” issue to anyone who would like one, and we hope you will find solace in its pages. Please send us a direct… instagram.com/p/B9192EIn9Pw/…

A saint (is one) who does not know how it is possible not to love, not to help, not to be sensitive to the anxiety of others. ― Abraham Heschel "I’ve found that whatever I go through opens me to what others have… instagram.com/p/B9osVZSH2o1/…

A saint (is one) who does not know how it is possible not to love, not to help, not to be sensitive to the anxiety of others. ― Abraham Heschel "I’ve found that whatever I go through opens me to what others have… instagram.com/p/B9osVZSH2o1/…

"An issue of Parabola on the theme of Fundamentalism may seem an anomaly. This is a journal of search whereas fundamentalism suggests a destination, a closed circle, an impenetrable realm of final answers. Yet no one… instagram.com/p/B9jlClBHOPU/…

“Buddhist tradition recommends particular strategies for developing loving-kindness and compassion. Since loving-kindness has a wider scope, as a meditative training it is normally developed first, and thus I will… instagram.com/p/B9RefXAB5d5/…