Love is a Place

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.

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.

When in the Soul of the Serene Disciple

By Thomas Merton

With no more Fathers to imitate, Poverty is a success

Guidepost of Silent Illumination

By Master Hongzhi

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

Sometimes a Wild God

By Tom Hirons

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

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,

One Must Dance Naked

By Fred LaMotte

You wear your silence as a black silk gown, woven infinitesimal, every thread a letter of your lover's name.

Unending Love

By Rabindranath Tagore

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

The Poetry of the World

By Shawn Radcliffe

“Some of his poems are as if he’s consoling God for what’s happened to his creation”

A Liturgy of Light

By John O'Donohue

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

6:00 – FREE

Chimes

With Sea Stars

Sea Stars is the musical collaboration of Kurt Baumann and Katie Gray.

2:00 – FREE

SAND18 US — The Wound of Love

With Maya Luna

Today I Gave Up on Healing my Trauma

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

The Laughing Heart: Charles Bukowski

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

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.

Come Solstice Come

By Rainer Maria Rilke

All will come again into its strength: the fields undivided, the waters undammed,

Love After Love

By Derek Walcott