Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Dec 3, 2009, 7:47 pm
I’m in Squaw Valley, California, along with 300 other students at the annual Rigpa (my Buddhist group) fall retreat. We’re staying in luxury at the Squaw Creek Resort. It’s a ten d...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Dec 1, 2009, 9:09 am
Here is the second post in our Critique Cycle for Story Circle Network’s blog “Telling Her Stories. In the first post we discussed the definition and purpose of critique. In this post we ...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Nov 30, 2009, 5:52 pm
I’m in Squaw Valley, California at the Rigpa (my Buddhist group) fall retreat. We’re staying in luxury at the Squaw Creek Resort. When I arrived, I felt overwhelmed. It was just too big....
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Nov 26, 2009, 9:30 pm
Here’s my gratitude short list: Mainly, grateful for continued connections with friends across the U.S. and all over the world. Continuity is sweet in a life on the move. How good it is to com...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Nov 25, 2009, 7:00 pm
WHAT MAKES REAL MEN TICK? When I was a college student back in the 1960’s, my roommate and I decided, after a series of disappointing love affairs, that we were going to study men and try to...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Nov 25, 2009, 9:32 am
It’s a clear day on Clear Lake. The water flat as a liqid prairie. We glide as if inside a 1950s Kodachrome postcard. In the foreground juts the yellow prow of my kayack. In the middle ground...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Nov 22, 2009, 6:00 am
Photo: Yvonne Perry with Grandson Sid It’s a blog tour! Yvonne Perry is a freelance writer and editor who owner Writers in the Sky Creative Writing Services based in Nashville, Tennessee. As...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Nov 20, 2009, 1:37 pm
Click here for Lonnie Powell’s bio and more details about his Porfolio exhibit. I just came back from viewing Lonnie Powell’s show at the Porfolio Gallery and Education Center in St. Loui...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Nov 19, 2009, 11:02 am
THAT DAY AT GETTYSBURG The date was 1863, at Gettysburg This day, I stand upon the quiet field Now all is silent, All eyes upon the purpose here. It was a fragile moment In a meadow lost in thou...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Nov 16, 2009, 9:10 am
Hi Mosaic enthusiasts! Check out Lillian Sizemore’s work. She did a wonderful mosaic project in Ghana! Lillian is a mosaic artist and gifted educator. She jurored a show in which Karen Silton&#...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Nov 16, 2009, 8:59 am
My younger cousin Nathan Newberry is an ace at restoring cars. Here is one of a series of videos letting us in on his process with a 1971 Olds “S71″ Color Test Panel. This is Nathan’...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Nov 16, 2009, 8:46 am
Our Man from Pakistan Karim Khan/Ernest Dempsey talks about his book The Blue Fairy and other Tales of Transcendence in this short video interview with Victor Volkman.
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Nov 16, 2009, 8:39 am
IF you turn the stairs into a keyboard, will people take the stairs instead of the escalator? See the You Tube video below of piano stairs by the FunTheory.com
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Nov 14, 2009, 3:09 pm
Our trip as a family to Branson to claim Pop’s Gold Medal Award turned out to be a fortunate trip. The first night we dined at a Chinese Restaurant. Our fortune cookies told us: My father Erwin...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Nov 14, 2009, 2:44 pm
The ides that our sense of self, which we usually assume to be relatively stable and enduring, is actually constructed anew each moment out of a ceaseless flux of thoughts images and sensations may be...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Nov 14, 2009, 2:22 pm
Persistence, pastel on canvas,18
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Nov 14, 2009, 2:17 pm
Author Maryanne Raphael graces us with memories of her mentors. Janet __________________ My Mentors My first mentor was Grandfather Patterson who read stories to me, wrote letters to editors ...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Nov 14, 2009, 1:13 pm
(adapted from Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s newsletter) During November nonfiction writers get a chance to hone their skills and complete a nonfiction project during the annual Write Nonfiction in N...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Nov 3, 2009, 2:54 pm
Critique is an art when done well–and potentially damaging when it’s not. In our fifth cycle for our Creative Catalyst column on Telling Her Stories (Story Circle Network) Stephanie Farrow...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Oct 31, 2009, 2:57 pm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, POP! My father, Erwin A. Thompson, turns 94 this November 9th. What could make a better birthday present than winning an award for a book you put a lifetime of heart into? That’...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Oct 26, 2009, 7:05 pm
Karim Khan, our man in Pakistan, sent me a link revealing the work of poet Afzal Shauq. I think you’ll like it. Karim in country editor for Instanlogs.
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Oct 26, 2009, 6:58 pm
Patrick Gracewood on his Shadows on Stone blog picked up an interview by Susan Gallacher Turner on about my visual arts career. He shaped it into a post I found useful–as if the subject of the ...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Oct 26, 2009, 6:37 pm
Nice “atta girl” from Bobbi Linkemer of Writing a Nonfiction Book Riehl Life, founded by artist, writer, poet, and musician Janet Grace Riehl, defies description. It is just plain beautif...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Oct 26, 2009, 6:31 pm
Buddhist Geeks? Yup. To listen in to a conversation about tea and spiritual practice, click here.
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Oct 24, 2009, 9:27 am
And now…something a little different. Here’s a contemplation from the connective mind of my blogging buddy and friend Hal Manogue who writes both poems and essays. His books include: Shor...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Oct 16, 2009, 9:45 am
In 1992 Severn Suzuki of Canada addressed the United Nations on behalf of E.C.O. the Environmental Children’s Organization. Vanessa Suttie, Morgan Geisler, Michelle Quigg and Severn traveled 5,0...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Oct 16, 2009, 9:31 am
Damaria Senne, my blogging buddy and friend from South Africa, is adept at both professional and creative writing. Check out her tips here as she describes her process.
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Oct 15, 2009, 7:52 am
Blowing bubbles as a scientific experiment. How far away from your mouth makes the best bubble? Where on the hill? What about wind currents? Children know the answers to these questions. Do you?
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Oct 15, 2009, 7:46 am
JGR Note: The Savage Detectives (Los Detectives Salvajes in Spanish) is an award-winning novel published by the Chilean author Roberto Bolaño in 1998. Go here for a cool Excel chart of the mammoth se...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Oct 15, 2009, 7:46 am
For this year’s Blog Action Day’s topic on Climate Change, I asked Riehlife readers to share their observations and village wisdom. Here’s a sampling. –JGR ___________________...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Oct 7, 2009, 12:39 pm
Africa is all about the undulating line. Linear functions don’t apply.
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Oct 7, 2009, 12:33 pm
I’ve been reading an interesting book, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life, by Winifred Gallaher. I’ve run across a great definition of reality: Reality is an intentional, first-person ...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Oct 7, 2009, 12:11 pm
... on our home place to celebrate the birth of our newest poetry book. Visiting, a brief reading, and home baked refreshments crowned ... . In addition to Pop and me, three of the poets featured ...
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Janet R. posted an article on Riehl Life - Oct 6, 2009, 10:04 pm
Wanna know a beauty of a survival technique for those of us not yet on Oprah? Mosey over to Telling Her Stories to read our latest Creative Catalyst post “Success Your Way” on how to kee...
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