There is another “artsy” aspect to the film: culinary art. Art doesn’t simply imitate life, it gives birth, it awakens, reminds, and so much more.

I keep it close at hand because it contains 30 tea and cocktail recipes at the conclusion. Making my own tincture has been fun!

Gracie was a bit of a competitive girl. She was on the track team and often won the races. She helped out in the school office because...

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Something special happened. While Fredd played for Truman, other bingo players gather around to listen. The lady who won the big pot placed a wicker basket beside Truman’s bingo cards on the table. She put half her winnings into the basket! Fredd looked up from his flute, amazed. There was fifteen hundred dollars there. “Keep playing, sonny,” the lady said to Fredd. Truman’s eyes grew wide in wonder. As Fredd played a delightful song with an Irish melody others started wa

Haiku Series Celia Blake #1 The tiger trained me   to creep through fire, but I learned—   to fly over tides. #2 The wolf left bones...

Let’s say you did the work, know your purpose, and are on a path you believe is meant for you. That's wonderful! We should, however, keep...

“So,” Carmella began to explain, “now that you know I’m here, I want you to know that I may appear again in cases when you worry.

Life is full of contradictions. So is the internet. So what do we do about it?

Picture the horizon, any horizon where the earth touches the sky, and envision it opening like an eye. See specks of light in the pupil of t

Welcome to another Poem of the Week! The bloodstone mirror shows no illusions—only the truth of transition, healing, and divine trust. From Mother to Crone, through shadow and light, here is a poem emerged in midwinter's quiet. Bloodstone Mirror by Cleo Bell Minutes tick weeks float like the snow transition from Mother to Crone—

“Do you know what a prophet is, Cassie?” “Hmm. Like a psychic who predicts the future?” “Not quite. Psychics are people with an excess of

You’ll drown me, and I’ll let you— and I’ll love it— because I’m safe with you.

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The term “superhuman” is being applied to artificial intelligence (AI). Why? Because it uses everything that is uploaded and produces things far more quickly than any human or group of humans could. Imagine being familiar with every article on Wikipedia, every book ever written and the films based on it, every song on Spotify and YouTube, including every song rating, and every Facebook post, including every like and comment. Then, using all of this information, you produce a

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(The found letter) Dear Key of C, You’ve been kind to me Always showing the way home Into the middle Into the in-between The places I see The place to be. Hearing melodies Truths unveiled like a bride and groom naked on their honeymoon. Bare, pure not here or there but in the timeless everywhere and nowhere. —Cleo Bell #CleosLetters #TwilightLetter Dear Key of C was written for TwilightLetters.com