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Seeing one’s purpose in the moment, and in life, takes clear understanding of one’s gifts and what is needed. In those periods when the stressed world seems in chaos, it is easy to question the usefulness of one’s work, to get distracted. These are the times to trace the interconnectedness of all, to appreciate how each person’s contributions—even the smallest—support the whole. It is also a good time to simplify. Understand what is and is not important, let go of details that will not matter. Seek silence. The center, the focus, is there after all in the heart.
In community, Lynne
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I Opened the Gate, Laughing
20th Anniversary Edition
Mayumi Oda
The story of one woman's journey to creative freedom through gardening and the teachings of Zen. Born in Japan, Mayumi Oda comes back to the practice of Buddhism at beautiful Green Gulch Farm retreat center in Northern California, where she finds new tranquility and creative spirit through her pen, her brush, and her trowel to overcome the constraints of a traditional upbringing and the sadness of the end of a marriage.
This enchanting book is a meditation on the search for inner peace and reawakening, awash with luscious prints and watercolors, beautifully designed, and filled with vivid stories and verse.
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Random Kindness and Senseless
Acts of Beauty 30th Anniversary Edition
Anne Herbert, Paloma Pavel, Mayumi Oda
With beautifully crafted words and exuberant watercolor illustrations, this book offers a poetic and empowering message for world peace. This modern allegory inspires taking joyful steps to end violence. It expands upon the idea that "we are all in the circle together," a timeless parable for readers of all ages. In the playful style of 12th century Japanese picture scrolls, Mayumi Oda's art depicts humans as animals who lose their way when their leaders become confused and drawn to violence.
The message of this book is the realization that each person can become an agent of goodness and beauty.
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Artist, author, activist Mayumi Oda was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1941. Her paintings are exhibited internationally, and her work as an environmental, anti-nuclear, and peace activist has inspired others around the world. Mayumi currently lives at her beloved Ginger Hill Farm in Kealakeku, Hawai'i. | |
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Random Kindness and Senseless
Acts of Beauty 30th Anniversary Celebration
Piedmont Center for the Arts, Piedmont, CA
March 22, 7 PM PT
Join coauthor Paloma Pavel and friends for an evening of education and celebration. Learn how a phrase became a book, then a global movement. Guest presenters include artists Guillermo Ortiz and Anasuya Isaacs, Betsy Blakeslee’s World Harmony Chorus, artist Leslie Plato Smith, and puppet artist Annie Hallatt. Free and open to all!
More info & RSVP HERE
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Mark Dowie reading in Sacramento
Capital Books Flamingo Lounge
Saturday, March 23 @ 2PM PT
Come hear author Mark Dowie discussing his new book Judith Letting Go
Six Months in the World's Smallest
Death Cafe
For the entire six months that Mark Dowie became friends with poet Judith Tannenbaum, they both knew she was going to die. In fact, for most of that time they knew the exact hour she would go. They talked about many things, but the rapidly approaching moment of Judith’s death came to inform and shape their entire conversation. Death was, as she said, “the undercurrent and the overstory of our relationship."
Judith Letting Go supports the right to plan one’s death, but it is ultimately about the lost human art of releasing everything that matters to the living in preparation for the inevitable.
More about the in-person signing HERE
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Making a Way Out of No Way photograph features in exhibition
Art In Treasured Spaces (First Floor),
Annapolis, MD
March 1 – June 7
"Maryland Muse: A Tapestry of Inspiration" presents a diverse collection of two-dimensional creative works inspired by the unique cultural, beauty, and daily lives of Marylanders. Included in this display is a photograph from NVP author Merideth Taylor's forthcoming book, Making a Way Out of No Way.
Opening reception:
Wed, March 13, 5–7 PM EDT
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Muriel Fox, NYC Events
March 14, 6 PM
The Public Relations Museum will host Muriel Fox at their annual symposium in an interview with Dr. Caryn Medved about her book.
Register (in person or zoom) HERE
May 15-17
Muriel Fox, author of the forthcoming The Women’s Revolution, will be honored at a International Women's Forum 50th Anniversary Conference luncheon on May 16th.
More info HERE
June 18
The New-York Historical Society will host the launch of Muriel Fox's memoir, The Women's Revolution.
| Muriel Fox cofounded the National Organization for Women (NOW) and NOW’s powerful Legal Defense & Education Fund (now Legal Momentum), pivotal forces in the Second Wave Feminist Movement. An organizing lieutenant to Betty Friedan and head of NOW’s communications, Fox was central in creating both national NOW and its New York Chapter. Muriel Fox was also cofounder and president of The Women’s Forum and chair of the Veteran Feminists of America. At age 96, she honors 30 leaders of the feminist movement in her forthcoming memoir—The Women's Revolution: How We Changed Your Life. | |
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David Cortright to speak at the "Waging Peace in Vietnam" exhibit reception, Tuesday, April 2
Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI
Exhibit: April 1–21, 2024
During America's War in Vietnam, tens of thousands of GIs and veterans created a robust movement against the war. Yet its history is largely unknown.
David Cortright—author of A Peaceful Superpower: Lessions from the World's Largest Antiwar Movement — will address the opening reception for the companion exhibit to his co-edited book, Waging Peace in Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans who Opposed the War.
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Mark Dowie in the Media for Judith Letting Go | | |
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TRE Radio
Mark Dowie: "It was the most meaningful, remarkable, six months of my life."
Listen to the Full Podcast Episode HERE
CapRadio
Vicki Gonzales: "Can talking about death, even preparing for one's own, give it new meaning?"
Listen to the Full Podcast Episode HERE
What If? Radio
Lori Barkley and Stephanie Hendricks to Dowie: "I view you as someone who is personally responsible for saving a lot of lives."
Listen to the Full Podcast Episode HERE
Piedmont Extreda
Features Judith Letting Go on their "New books from Bay Area authors in February" list. Congratulations on the recognition, Mark!
Review the Full List HERE
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“For decades I’ve admired Mark Dowie’s fearlessness as an investigative reporter. But it’s a different kind of bravery he shows in this book: the courage to take on a subject that most of us tiptoe around—and to do so in a way that is compassionate, sensitive, and deeply moving.”
— Adam Hochschild
Mark Dowie is a former publisher and editor of Mother Jones magazine. He recently retired from the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Dowie’s works have won nineteen journalism awards. He is the author of eight previous books.
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Only Poems features Leigh Sugar
Leigh Sugar, editor of That's a Pretty Thing to Call It, is interviewed and named "Poet of the Week" by Only Poems!
"I think writing poetry is itself radical, in the way it forces both reader and writer to slow down, pay attention, and listen, endeavors that capitalism and White supremacy - which are so concerned with efficiency and production - actively oppose." — Leigh Sugar
Full Interview HERE
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Otherwise Magazine interviews
Spoon Jackson
As part of a larger project to reflect on the humanity of those living within the American prison system, composer Tim Reed interweaves Spoon Jackson's—coauthor of By Heart and coeditor of The Book of Judith—thoughtful story on growing up in California and then prison with recitals of Jackson's original poetry ("Universe," "Beauty in Cell Bars," "Winter") and drawings, as well as original music by Reed.
Full video production HERE
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Making a Way Out of No Way
Lives of Labor, Love, and Resistance
Meredith M. Taylor
A moving, photographically illustrated work of historical fiction. This unique, handsome hardcover book is a poetic interwoven collage of scenes and community of characters that reflect the diversity of experience, “silences,” and incompleteness of the historical record of slavery on tobacco plantations of Southern Maryland.
Coming June
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The Women's Revolution
How We Changed Your Life
Muriel Fox
A comprehensive, indexed memoir about the Second Wave women's movement by the cofounder of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Muriel Fox offers rare, firsthand stories of 29 women and one man, including Betty Freidan, but also many who have not previously been recognized for their contributions.
Coming June
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Americans Who Tell the Truth | |
Artist, activist, and author Robert Shetterly has painted over 260 portraits of Americans Who Tell the Truth. His exquisite paintings of inspiring activists are exhibited in dozens of communities and used to support a variety of public programs—see news below. | |
Truth Tellers documentary now on American Public Television!
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Nearly 300 public television stations will air the feature-length documentary film about Americans Who Tell the Truth, Truth Tellers, multiple times through 2025.
To find out when it will be broadcast in your area contact your local PBS affiliate.
Also, DVDs are now available for order HERE.
Maine libraries and K-12 schools get 50% off. Send them the TRAILER.
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What is a Maine Story?
Bangor Public Library, Bangor, ME
Thru March 23
12 of Shetterly's Maine-related portraits will be on display. Other events include:
March 12, 4-6 PM: a hands-on portraiture workshop with Shetterly
March 23, 2-3:30 PM: a closing celebration featuring community-submitted works
Exhibit + Events info HERE
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Finding Courage in Community
First Church in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA
Thru March 31
A celebration of the 2024 Lenten season.
Event info HERE
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