My Fairy-Tale Life, by Steven Boone

I packed over twenty five paintings and took along a portfolio of hand made prints to make the one day drive from Santa Fe to Oklahoma Ci...

Have you ever heard of the phrase, random act of kindness? According to Wikipedia, the free online dictionary, it describes "a non-p...

The greatest thing you can do to cultivate true wisdom is to practice the consciousness of the world as a dream.  -Paramahansa Yogana...

  Often it happens that after I have spent hours in an art museum, when I come out onto the street, I see life differently—as if everyt...

After almost 600 posts spanning a decade, occasionally I find myself without a topic to write about. I could go to my poems or myriad journ...

"Man's fate is according to his pains." -Robert Herrick, ( English, 24 August 1591 – 15 October 1674 ) Is fasting like w...

“True loss is for him whose days have been spent in utter ignorance of his self.” — Baha’u’llah I am at the midway point of the Baha...

A wounded man lies on a dark battlefield littered with corpses and not a living soul near. His blood drains away, seeping into the silent...

  Amira seemed timid and mysterious during my first visits to her home in Luxor several years ago. After all, I was a stranger from Ame...

Steven's writing After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter. —Jean Cocteau ( French: 5 July...

What is more magical than looking into a face? A sunrise has its charms, as does the flaming spectacle at the end of day. Changing clouds...