Friends & Allies

Julie Akeret, filmmaker, cultural activist

 Bauhan Publishing, Independent Book Publishers

Barbara Bash, artist, writer, teacher, calligrapher 

Susan Bonthron, book-artist, workshop leader 

Gerry Cambridge, poet, editor, teacher 

Anna Dembska, composer, singer, teacher 

Wendy Erd, poet and storyteller

Hannah Hinchman, artist, writer, teacher, naturalist 

Jan Kilpatrick, textile artist, teacher 

Wendy Erd, poet and storyteller

Booklist

Some favorite books on creativity & slowing down:
David Abram: The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World (Random House, Inc. 1996).
Barbara Bash: True Nature: An Illustrated Journal of Four Seasons in Solitude (Shambhala, 2004).
Nicholas Carr: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (W.W. Norton & Co., 2010).
Jay Griffiths: A Sideways Look at Time (Penguin Putnam, 1999).
Robert Grudin: Time and the Art of Living (Ticknor & Fields, 1982).
Matthieu Ricard: Happiness: A Guide to Life’s Most Important Skill  (Little, Brown & Co. 2003).
Adrienne Rich: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (W.W. Norton & Co., 1993).
Rebecca Solnit: Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Penguin Putnam, 2000).
Lin Yutang: The Importance of Living (Harper-Collins, 1937, 1998).

Some favorite books on the art of listening:
Dennis O’Driscoll: Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (Faber & Faber, 2008).
Warren Lehrer & Judith Sloan: Crossing the Boulevard: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America (W.W. Norton & Co., 2003).
Jacques Lusseyran: And There Was Light (Parabola Books, 1987).
W.A. Mathieu: The Listening Book: Discovering your Own Music (Shambhala, 2011).