A Madcap Baul

Medicine of the Real

By Chameli Ardagh

What a kindness she showers upon me, not letting me skip any steps, or leave not even one stone unturned.

Love After Love

By Derek Walcott

2:00 – FREE

The Laughing Heart: Charles Bukowski

Your life is your life, don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.

Sojourns in the Parallel World

By Denise Levertov

We live our lives of human passions, cruelties, dreams, concepts, crimes and the exercise of virtue in and beside a world devoid of our preoccupations...

Wabi-Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence

By Shawn Radcliffe

Often in our world of mass-produced goods and machine-like cities, we strive for perfection,

7:00 – FREE

SAND18 US - The Paradox of Awakening

With David Ellzey

At the 2018 SAND Conference, David Ellzey physically and wordlessly tells the story that resolves the seeming paradox of being both human and transcendent.

Go to the Limits of Your Longing

By Rainer Maria Rilke

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.

2:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Wound of Love

With Maya Luna

Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma

Unending Love

By Rabindranath Tagore

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…

Illness as Companion

By John O'Donohue

We never value or even see some things in our lives until we are just about to lose them.

When in the Soul of the Serene Disciple

By Thomas Merton

With no more Fathers to imitate, Poverty is a success

Widening Circles

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Guidepost of Silent Illumination

By Master Hongzhi

Silent and serene, forgetting words, bright clarity appears before you.

A Liturgy of Light

By John O'Donohue

When suffering comes, we feel panic and fear. Frightened, we want to hide.

Sometimes a Wild God

By Tom Hirons

Sometimes a wild god comes to the table. He is awkward and does not know the ways

Taste Your Life Now

By Ellen Emmet

There is a kind of thinking which keeps life separate from herself